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the best have most and many on, including the us of the volume the how do they do in the secret life stats may 22nd on d w. the next to you, the explosion killed 9 people and wounded around a 100 procedure really was quickly removed from the wreckage. and the card was what was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. the car bomb was contained at least 350 kilograms of explosives listed for a 110 meters in diameter cycle. it was impossible for the former prime minister to

survive the attack. i don't think the, the really was threats to syrian domination and lebanon. syria has been a close ally to has bella russell camire was pushing too hard on things that were going to undermine their position in lebanon. and that was not to be allowed. but now the people, well let's, as you know, that was the day has block. can you use a pretty, they took control of the land on the government that the presidency for the republic to neutralize the army and see a decimal more not let us when they began to physically eliminate anyone in lebanon, 40 to death, to say no, to ask a lot of it, you don't know the policy of card did you read the term in through our investigation that has to pull out was operating like

a global drug part. so we want to to apply the same logic that was successful going after the italian organized crime families going after car towels in colombia. i mean the car tells a good but as well as another whole of the b as insemination. the former prime minister of fee could re re sent a shelf way through living on and the international community. the eyes turned to syria, which stood accused of being the mazda mind. behind the attack off the launch scale demonstrations syrian president bush shaw alyssa troops,

which it occupies the thoughts of living on for 29 years to withdraw the with the syrian withdrew his beloved last a long time ally and protector on his pillow, found itself accused of being involved in receipt, reread the assassination the now weakened. his bullet continued on its positive violence. first in living on itself with his bill of wage to campaign against its political opponents. and then outside its food is his, the attracted sworn enemy, israel,

the dana. but now the and then as soon as you can, and they so that we were convinced that the, as riley's would only release prisoners as part of a prisoner exchange. so we needed to have is riley prisoners in order to secure the release of lebanese prisoners and from his raise the presence of many, most of the facility to dislike the, as the law has captured 2 soldiers and 11 the gift to a part of his but we have no details about hezbollah as kidnapping of 2 is really soldier. do sunday, the israel is taking the incident very serious when he signed the on the lead use a was

a risk of the but we estimated that risk to be around for about 10 percent. we did not expect the wall of that magnitude had the home, the muscle here, and it's really lebanese bowls of times and helicopters have been sending the region all day is really all me has into the southern level football club membership event on the lebanese government, which has the lowest possible main is trying to undermine regional stability. it dates a boot, lebanon is responsible for this. the done so he needs to use release, believe they will recover their soldiers through military operations while they are delusional. let him have them for

the whole country in the system and we had a terrible suspicion to move away. maybe one of the reasons for this war was that we confronted tests and mr. rylon has beloved god was facts that showed hezbollah was behind the assassination of her really hezbollah, kidnapped to his release soldiers and caused the situation that exploded on the we stayed the 1st days and is full of what's coming. they have to leave. so as to

leave, so i believe pl phone cheese, a test, but not expect that. what, what happened? they tell us, i expected this extremely heavy bombard demands the since 20 years. i'm living here in the cells and some books off by a route which i close to da here. the so we are really the kind of get to here. contort by his doings was that was a group office will not fight. tell us that thing in our garden discussing, in other words,

having that kind of meeting. and i was by making because i saw if the dogs will catch. so his boss, the thing and our garden, they were both bought the whole house and asked them, was this kind of tension? i made a very bad joke. i just, i don't know what took me, but i just said, do would like to have a picture of you and somebody on for me, if you take one's americans would pay you a 1000000 of all. so, i mean, i said the soul is always sylvia. it was a bad joke, i will go up to the apartment, i need some closes and i will leaf. so i left and 2 years later the, this is a lock on land emerge. mobile media is assessing data. and the, all of a sudden this,

you see me totally wrong food stores as a well and is a suite of a multiple in the and i'm telling myself, i have seen him. and at one point it just made this clear lake. i know we lost the guy who told me as americans would have space you. a 1000000 of dollars was a lot more near the off to $33.00 days of these. really bombings has full obtained a ceasefire without releasing the 2 hostages in bay route as well. as lita house on us rama celebrated the victory if the militia over its long time enemy res, be to god for this victory,

the suddenness rama had boasted his status as a hero in much of the arab world, in his views, his pillows militia had humiliated these rails but they needed money to finance lebanon's reconstruction. this was the moment that d e a. the us drug enforcement administration had been waiting for each agency in washington, were monitoring all the movements of funds, arriving in by ruth they was searching for evidence of drug money in payments arriving from around the world. the in 2006 is really air force destroyed every major bridge and lab 9 they destroyed, make many the road systems airport was impacted police with k s,

the 11. i'm is in deep trouble financially. normally, you know, somebody finds a country, their credit rating goes down, you know, money doesn't flood into their contract. okay. i'm a finance guy. this and that. how things normally work. but and 11 on miracle sap, they need the money and loan. behold, what happens, this maisie amount of money was rushing and the lab island men the what is the war ended at 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock in the morning. his law was pleasant. evelyn. well, people able to go somewhere to complains that they had lost the hose and memorial of the family wants good souls and all families had lost every thing

this law was affiliated compensation give i will receiving to alone $10000.00 money, most of calls coming from you on the national and at the most that will you receive aid from iran? why that's common knowledge light on, while other a napkin has more law but has but i also do rights income from the home of the tax that the faithful pay left the you have to file mean on under she a doctrine the faithful must pay 20 percent of that profit to the what a month and the clerics every year, let the stuff the day i said him, but those clerics use the money from the faithful to support most. let me send the pull on

a quick what they need to land. that's why the couldn't heavy what the hezbollah makes plenty of money through business activity and makes money through donations. but at the end of the day, i their reliance on iran for their big box and the how much money more or less does trip present hundreds of millions of dollars a year and hundreds of millions of dollars a year in cash out of the month, we don't provide any information about our budgets, a weapons or apo. so now those are penalty secrets. and 2007,

the lebanese banking system began to explode and growth. we realize and what i realize we as i started to look into a huge amount of that money was drug money. but the key thing is, who organizes well, ultimately in magnolia and sell the spelling leaders have made public statements that the drug industry is forbidden. sometimes the bad guys, why and they look the other way. the us treasury department is the finance ministry of united states and we knew we had power. we knew we had tools, we knew we had a 30 to reach and debate route to reach into the lebanese financial system and put our finger on the scale a little bit and say ok,

now we're going to start impacting your ability to feel comfortable. we're, you've thought you were the safe the the, the, the us government went on the offensive d. e. a agents were tasked with info, tracing the elicit financing networks, established by his bill as military strategist, emma mcneil, wyatt attempts helps the d. e. a like dentist on international money laundering circuits and the organization of his below as close the network which would with the south american drug contents the

so the team identifying the network that we identified what we called the super facilitators, like the biggest members of the organization, like it and organized crime family. these were the bosses right. or, and the court tell we call them cell heads, right. what has blog? it was the super facilitators, the pretty quickly we identified a latin american drug lord tied to a magazine, but operating 11 on and look like. has the strongholds in lebanon, a lebanese male called i'm in june 9 and juno was far, far above

a guy like check the harvard because of very powerful man the just the bridge between the columbia and cartels money and has plus mean the was like the only guy who was a sunni, who is living in harvest course. yeah. area, southern bay route, you know, have beautiful apartment, i believe on the beach started by has blood guards and things here. and usually the children are a tire focus was on. i'm in june and how we can possibly a full tre, his network, right in lebanon. i'm in june. i want it to meet with us. sometimes our,

our top international targets. they get wind of the indictment. or we let them know sort of in a quiet way, hey, you know, you're indicted. what often happens is through through a lawyer they have or um, or maybe even directly just because it could start with a direct conversation. is that uh, the bad guy wanted to see if he could work out some sort of deal. it was under the guys that i'm in june, always gonna cooperate with the drug enforcement administration, which i was never gonna let that happen. if i could, in my mind, this is the guy that we need to put in jail not to cooperate. so we set up a meeting and was actually at the trump tower in panama city. the agents and the price here is in the lawyer role where and really nice clothes and i decided is going my shorts and a t shirt into the trump tower. they do it obviously like hey, where is your it's the future. but i,

i think i always do it on purpose because i didn't want to give us any idea that i thought like, i'm doing anything special for the guy from my a 20 years of experience working with criminals and mafioso so that he appeared to me to be a hard core mafia member. so any time we caught each other's glass, he had this look of the if i get the chance i'm going to kill you. these are my boss. no doubt. i said real, fly it through most of the meeting and then 5. so you this is you haven't given us there's, there's actually nothing that you've given us that we don't already know. so we went our separate ways. it does appear to both inside and outside the trump tower.

they were surreptitiously taking pictures of us views, basically certain that hezbollah had launch and intelligence investigation on. um asher or myself, basically the cassandra task force they tried to contract other criminal groups including cartels. so they would pay if these people would kill us or use care? no, definitely scared. no i, i mean i took it is you took it as a compliment and then he also felt like, well, we must really be doing our job. is there so pissed off that so like you have to ask the advisor fever scared. i don't know. i was scared but who knows

the when i started project cassandra with my partner jack kelly and our fearless leader . dear malls, they knew, i had another job. i don't think they quite realize where it works. yeah. and worked at 375 park avenue in new york and the 33rd floor, one of the 2. and for $2000000000.00 hedge fund, whereas a partner, this is my side project. you know, so you know, half a day i'm managing billions of dollars and loans and equity investments. and the rest of the day i'm hanging out with guys like jack kelly and, and others. since that, which is like, you know, i'd fly from new york, i the other play, you know, writing the dallas. and i'd like the dress like this. i give you no business to these guys over in blue jeans and you know, like t shirts since then, you know, i can like bunch of bad boons and i'm like, hey, i just met with the, you know, george soros, you know,

the, the us department of justice decided to charge, i'm on juma, we drug trafficking and money laundering balance. he, it'll re, the going on the ground, the project. cassandra was stepped up about 100 agents when now working to find i'm on to him is accomplices. the investigation focused on venezuela? a south american country plus style to the us. it's president at the time who go chavez was favorably inclined to the enemies of the united states. first and foremost, these let make republic give a run and it's process j has below the me. i come from a family,

the police and government service and serving society and talked to mary trying to do a little bit of good in the world. we're out of the special operations division and we were called the bi lateral investigative unit. ringback so originally we were the. ringback focused on king pens, kind of the untouchables in the world, but we quickly started to, to really see a big next us between a lot of these groups involved in terrorism and how they're being financed through narcotics trade. the tariff mouse, who's our special agent in charge for most of my tour, their tax invest. and we started realizing how has block was moving operations into vin as well, or had an opportunity to generate, you know,

millions of millions of dollars to help them fund their operations. it was very apparent are after the war in 2006, what is real and juma and the network of has both operators were very closely aligned with the corrupt, military, and corrupt government officials at the highest level of venezuela and govern. what happened was the majority of columbia and cocaine entering the united states and europe comes out of venezuela, venezuelan cocaine, but venezuela because the gateway and through our penetrations in venezuela, we also started to learn a lot about has the we did learned our investigations that were done as well and social one over to a meeting in damascus area and was offered the assistance it has was the their husband reported

that it was the most wrong meeting. i think it was much more likely that it was going on with the military operations for his boss. clearly, those were very contrary to the national security policies of the united states. they believe they shared a common enemy and has, was certainly offering their expertise and resistance and creating malicious systems. the, some of the other, i think, interesting connections that came out were example. there's a airline that have been as well called comedy. i saw some of called an arrow terror, and we started learn. there's a weekly flight to tehran. very often it stopped over in damascus.

plains loaded with weapons, you know, r p g surface to air missiles, a k rifles into venezuela from these flights. and also they were picking up large sums of cash, you know, co chain bringing that stuff back into the middle east. the you get set and the 10 tons coming out event as well a week. okay. 7 to 10 tons and a lot of the this partnership is now co terrace partnership is emerging between the government and then as well under hugo chavez and the iranians. and has that, i'm gonna have the money that we welcome you distinguish the leader of a road, people that don't pay a ronnie and people in web lloyd and the leader of

a revolution to seal the sister of the venezuelan revolution. and he is allowed mc revolution today, oregon as well, it is celebrating that will be the welcome my brother selma lake on the menu item. i know a lot more like drugs became part of the resistance, narco resistance trafficking to jump roads, the infidels parts, their youth spoils their power the we started to see some really higher level ben as well. and officials person's like track ellis, i'm a who's the former minister of interior and i believe a former vice president he's at 11 missouri and descent ties back to that part of the world, the directors as one of those really

powerful officials who has so much influence in the country that he allows the system to operate she allows the drug traffickers to be protected. he allows flights to leave without people doing their job and inspecting it. he allows travel documents to be issued for persons and other countries that otherwise might not be eligible for receiving those travel documents. he allows math, so the amounts of money is to be longer that there's formal financial institutions the yesterday, the department of treasury's office of foreign asset control, known as old fact, designated venezuela national carrick. l. assignments as a specially designated narcotics traffic are pursuing for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. the has block one of the

a closer and closer to be involved in the distribution and laundry. and so they became sort of an end and element in the drug draft. you know, not something you normally see a terrace organization. when it came to a drug business, these guys were eager to make a box and very aggressive and not necessary. dec here. while above the money you have been seeking for more than 20 years to do em are set out until god finally chose him as a martyr. and he was killed by the assassins of the prophets to foster division. the honor, the, he wasn't most the dean of the autopay and the audio, the us centers really teams put together a very, very small explosive, ultimately one night coming out of syrian military intelligence, had moved me. i got into his, into his vehicle. uh and the explosive was that needed,

killing him is too much on the hill the make on present of his so the man who is existence was denied during life. but in death embrace the, he only he held this mystique, the new, i think, was a very significant take down from your organization the, with the death of the nod. magneer has been a, didn't just lose its top military leader. it also lost the man who controlled the organizations,

at least at financial flows. the that weekend has bill has power inside living own fonts. the policy of gold has a history of when quoted going on, attack us on us, rolla, decided to take the offensive and low and check of the says you will not be able to beat the top by the streets of a root. we believe the empty lebanese ami a co pay to have banished as a fine magic natural. the chief of defenders said to me again out of hand to us, i can on with com. if you don't, don't put any road lovers, they'll drive through the road books. a false shot that have, you'll people shoot like the post traditionally was it go from the administer community is confidential.

the july, the release, the husband, the home that day has blown munitions interest in black that invaded the capitol exec to move it was like, when most of the most on run to go about kind of them was, it was through his blood taken off. it's a mask with his below was that they are to defend living on against israel, able to help it wanted full control of 11 on and it was working its way forward.

okay. taking control the bit by bit. i make a note in there to get a new attachment bundled gradually, erosion of state power, who would eventually lead us to the situation that still exists to die with how something us rather holding absolute power of 11. and that has suddenly to baseball, what happened on may simmons put an end to a huge block that was being organized against our resistance, the problem. but i can tell you this, and their aim was to provoke a war between the lebanese army and our resistance. and the value of them, what size there was one person making the decisions that with house on us right off the behind, the real decision maker was tara,

the, the software, people, in my opinion, this was an attempt to, to, to achieve their goal of making a living on or to hear the proven silver on it and when they get it on the, the that has been building up over the years about the system. so now you can go here to a supermarket controlled by his by law where you find a way noon po dogs, the cells, but those under the control office below the banks under the control office. but no, i mean, as long as long term strategy,

the need beyond this strategy draws upon a historical fantasy nor a re establishing the former persian empire all the way to the mediterranean sea and with all subsided con thanks to it, runs on wavering support. his below had considerable control of political, economic, and judicial life and living on. but during its investigation, the d i had an important advantage. the deep pockets of the united states. when tracing his beloved drug money, the d. e, a found itself in the communities of west africa, which is also home to

a large lebanese diaspora. so during project cassandra, we actually identified probably one of the biggest trade bass money, laundry schemes that i'm aware of to support terrace organization like has west africa, was the hub for global cocaine trafficking around the world. and so we started putting a lot of resources into west africa. we had aerial photos in 2006, and the land was completely vacant along the coastline. so it's just these big stretches of beach and the 2070 start to see the used car lot starting march by 2008. they're full of cars like 3040000 cars a week. you're going through these cars. we didn't really understand. i mean, nothing wrong with important cars in doing and, you know, international carpets. this is

a legal business who owns those car? lots of quite a few of them are owned by lebanese who were supporters. it has the, all the crew will be ways living in bidding. there was one of the main guys that established working with aman juma and all of these guys that were established and has fullest operations in africa. they would take the drug money by used cars, send those used cars to west africa, silva used cars, then send the money, clean money back to 11 me and then it would go make its way back to south america to buy more cocaine. and this thing, we continue the

and the beauty of it is that with legitimate business owners that were making money, people in west africa were getting cars. so they were happy, right. and has full on their rate, always getting the cost of the profits to develop the cash flow that they needed to carry out their global agend. i'm not the, i'm one of the, of them one of my more money loan during all day talking about we have neither bank accounts nor trading companies on that. a sort of a federal individuals who run business in the day and who are shield and some of them in a be engaged in illicit activities for the. but what does that have to do with on, on, on much i'm so line up and the mobile we estimated about $200000000.00 a month was being generated from the escape. that's all over through the map, right? $200000000000.00 times 12, right? that's $2400000000.00 annually.

the figuring that out was enough of a challenge. somebody. so it was complicated. and you know, the money moves back to buy more narcotics. and this thing keeps repeating. except, you know, as it repeats, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. and that's when we start to see or opportunity to try to a showcase as well. a had a plan in place and that was let's take over a bank and easiest way to do that was 11 by 2009, 2010. we started to look at the 11 east canadian bank seriously. we wanted to figure out what this bank was doing and then i wanted to penetrate the

bank and get inside and we were colombian, drug traffickers, not me, and milan, and what was the relationship between lebanese canadian bank and as well. we later learned that in effect, as blood had about a 28 percent ownership of lebanese canadian for us, it was the smoking gun because it backed up all the analysis. and the other evidence we've been gathering labinata the we're old fashioned. we carry on money in suitcases, and it's only because we have casa that we don't carry its own, don't guess. otherwise, we'd carry its own horses and don't, cuz you know, they take hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. they literally bring it on in on pallets dump it in the bank,

somebody. it's inside the lebanese banking system. how much? billions, billions of dollars a year, the hezbollah accounts, through credits and deb, it's moved $5000000000.00 in 18 months. just through lebanese cane bank accounts that shows you the significant amount of money the and i wanted to target that and then i want it to bank from the bank. that's exactly what we did. the section $311.00 is often described as the atomic bomb of treasury authorities. so the, the practical results means that you lose as a matter of law, your access to the us financial system. in this case, lebanese canadian bank,

it becomes much, much more difficult to engage in any dollar transactions. informally, you'll probably lose almost all of your financial relationships anywhere in the world. the, i'd like to think of is a big ball of yarn. and as you pull the string of yarn more and more and more cases came out, authorities are still today pulling the strings of the lebanese canadian bank and finding cases from north america to africa and europe. and across the middle east. it was a tremendously insightful window into a very, very broad range of his ball activities. me

the dismantling of the lebanese canadian bank was an important victory for the d. a and its global campaign against the financing of hezbollah. the pressure was ramping up on the she on is limits to organization. off to several years of obstruction, the inquiry interrupt the career he's assassination was revived. the united nations established the special tribunal for 11 on the 1st time the legal impunity under which has the head loan seemed to operate was finally being called into question. the creation of this special tribe, you know, from the for 11, is the result of a tragedy of the killing, of a former prime minister and of 22 for the 1st the s t l is the 1st international, empty terrorist tribunal. the creation of the tribunal was

a political decision. it's operation, however, is, and must remain above politics. the special tribunal for 11 and is now in session 40 also to be now a shout back at $256.00. we have was a spot in the newsroom in 2010. i joined the special tribunal for lab and all known as b s t l, which i came to investigate the assassination of pro fee cutty, the group of related crimes with x, the ok. then he kept telling you that it was a sensitive investigation because we were walking abroad in a difficult, intense environment. we traveled in ahmed. cons will to that with lots of checkpoints. while we lived in a gutted residence,

a every precaution was taken the question because the investigators were talking to so it says i'm the, there is a go ahead already being lebanese investigations which provided the s t l with a great deal of information create especially the investigation led by a young lebanese police officer. we saw him, i. e, some would cost him his line to answer the, the better. what does that was on my eve regularly met with international investigators to share what he done? covered the only ones

a lot when he was returning from one of these meetings there. this car was pulling up the pull. they killed him. some of them all come over the cause of the is responsible. without a doubt they threaten my son twice and told him stop harassing us as if i love the money that even there's no such thing as a perfect crime. personally, there's always a mistake that can be the starting point of an investigation. nearly 6 years on and the assassination of former lebanese prime minister of fi career re, remains officially unsolved. it is not for lack of evidence, evidence which points directly and indirectly to hezbollah. the,

the, the shut off telephone delta lenders to a group that probably had ties to hezbollah. it was a group with the beach telephone numbers no more. and they only ever communicated with each other. we discovered that those 8 numbers were constantly following roughly cutting and what are the fee and heavy of the way they were out of the crime scene, the day of the assassination, the national, not the yeah. then that we consider all these evidence to be purely circumstantial

. law why that by that it's based on telephone data that isn't reliable. we'll see and in law we also believe that the communication networks were manipulated. we thought hezbollah has nothing to do with the explosion of that goal, the assassination e. f. c. and what does the end the i've seen the evidence and it's very good. it was his paula who killed her. larry, you cannot fake this evidence. and if any lebanese say, oh, they made this that the of c i a did, they're stupid. they're liar, super liars, the a document charges each of the thor accused. that's mr. sally in general. i ash vista, most of the, i mean veteran dean mr. was saying, her son only see mister, i saw her son,

silver with full crimes country to live in these low. we've been decided to proceed to trial. send you your money yet, but if i were any one who believes they can just issue a warrant, i don't think that we would allow them to arrest even one of our fighters both these are under the mistaken we would drop off the hand of anyone who dares not touch one of our fighters to the, the the was a warning to the lebanese state, and journalists don't come after us for her weary cars will kill you. you i tell you good enough for all is off is not going to dorothy, i'm doing some will ask them i want to do the field on his killing her weary and

you probably not come out 11 all life. they don't joke around with is the just jesus, he said, the international justice international law and international in the restaurant is to the means nothing of tools, no tools. hello. she's the 15 years off the roof, the career he's assess the nation. the special tribunal for living on issued its verdict. it's essentially 3 members of hezbollah received launch sentences in a sent you all 3 man remain at launch a full defendant. a high ranking has been the member is presumed dead. c his book continues to remain on punished while it rebuilds its clandestine financing

networks. in other countries and continents. they were looking for places where they could operate your business board for hezbollah, for lots of reasons. it is a place where as bulk and raise a lot of money. it is a place where it can carry operations. it is close to 11 on the france appears in some ways to be their command and control center for their activities. in the rest of your,

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