♪ -we tatalk about t the arms ra, yoyou know, bibig bombs and big g things that can k kill peoplele. and d they're vevery dangeror, anand we don't't ever want those ouout there. but, y you know, t the majoriy of p people in t the world are killlled from smsmall-arms . -in ththe last twowo decades, the dea a has defininitely witnd a large-e-scale convnvergence of weaponsns traffickiking and d terrorism.m. -at least t 60 people e are coconfirmed dedead in whahat is cleararly a pariris terror a attack -- gunfire,e, ak-47s, in mulultiple partrts of t the french h capital. -an ararms dealer r doesn't ce who o he sold ththe weapons o or w what they w were goingg to use t them for as l long as thehey were able to m make him a a profit. -when you'u're provididing weas to tererrorists ororganizatio, there's s nothing woworse than . the peopople doing i it are e horrible p people. -and if wewe don't do somethihing about i it, we'l'll lose thohousands anand thousandnds of livese. but t to try to o lock up an internrnational ararms traffic, yoyou know, yoyou're dancicg with t the devil.. -as a formrmer fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of ourur nation'ss intelllligence agegencies. my name isis mike rogegers. i had d access to classifified informrmation gathered b by our opererative, people whoho risked eveverythg for the e united statates and ouour familieses. you u don't knowow their facs or theheir names.. yoyou don't knknow the reaeal ss from thehe people who lived d the fear and the prpressure untntil no. ♪ ♪ -in ththe late '7070s throrough the '8'80s, into t the '90s, all arouound the wororld, ththere were p proxy wars.. i i mean, lebabanon was rarag. therere were cononflicts throughoutut africa. the iriran-iraq wawar, ththe breakup p of yugoslala, the e breakup ofof czechoslolov- ththose all ococcurred becece sosomeone was s willing to sell l them weapopons. ththey createded havoc. millions o of people were e kil. -[ sobbibing ] -if f you're onene of the top grgray and blalack arms dedeas in the wororld, you can mamake fortunenes by disistributing g weapons to whatevever cause you wantnt to make m money o. they're bubusinessmen.n. ththey don't n necessarilyy have a a lot of rurules like you a and i do, but they r run a busininess. -m-monzer al-k-kassar was s e of the mosost elite global w weapons trarafficker. hehe's really y responsiblbe for r a lot of t the modern-ny armed d conflict throughohout the wororld. -he e started baback in the e , stealiling cars, moving s small amoununts of drs until hehe became ththis ininternationanal hashsh/heroin trtrafficker who o then blossssomed intoto one of ththe top five weapapons traffifickers in the wororld. he t thought he e was untoucuc. his s nickname w was the e proud peacacock, you k , "this s is my housuse. thisis is my palalace." -that estatate had a a shamrock p pool, tenninis c, basketballll courts, three lalarge floorsrs. it h had the elelements of lifestytyles of the r rich and fafamous anand a bond m movie. hehe actually y had a smalallg that h he would carry araround the c compoun. you can'n't make it t up. -h-he was so r rich, some e pe called himim the princnce, but few w would mimistake him m for royaltl. -h-he developeped relationonss with ambasassadors, intetelligence a agencies, security f forces, all in a an effort t to be abe to do o what he wawants to do and influeuence whwho he needsds to influeue. -h-he's, one w way or anotot, reresponsiblee fofor hundredsds of deathss with t the weaponsns and arms that he's s provided terrorist t organizatitions. -anybodydy that everer had anany businessss with himm willll tell youu he's a a despicablble person. -this isis the highehest evololution... ofof a criminanal thatat you couldld find. -s-sherlock hoholmes has his archch nemesis,, moriararty, you knknow. he w was kind ofof the momoriarty foror me. i mean, hehe was. hehe was one o of those gugs thatat got away.y. i wawas 19 when n i came inn as an n intern, and other r than beingng a cp fofor a few yeyears, i've been n with dea e ever si. haven'n't done anynything elsesr than realllly being a a dea ag. momonzer startrted surfacicg in deaea reportingng in the e early '70s.s. but t what happepened was, in the e early '80s,s, when i i was a yououng agent in new y york, running araround new y york, we startrted realizizing we h had a majoror problem inin the uniteted states,, the drugug trade. -hereroin -- the most d destructiveve narcoc maman has everer devised.. -this has s reached epidemicic portions.s. -newew york wass a gateteway city f for heroi. that's's where mononzer firsrsts pops upup. in 1984, i i was workiking a can some m middle eaststern traffif. at thehe culminatition of the e, we seized d a lot of h heroi. wewe arrested d a lot of p pe, and everyoyone of themem sai, "i want toto tell you u a stor" and ththey talked d about monz. what i learned over that period of time was monzer's organization was moving drugs to the united states, but monzer realized the infrastructure to move arms and drugs, atat that timeme, wewere essentitially the s s. and he hadad a very gogood abiy to movove stuff through h cargo shipips. so it wawas easy. he wasas able to g get himsef in the g gray armamements busin. hehe could provide arms, esespecially small arms,s, to afrfrica. hehe provided d weapons toto so. -l-lieutenant t colonel oliver n north devisesed a schememe to fininance the c contras by o overchargining iran fofor the weapapons. -the iraran-contra,, hehe not only y supplied w wes toto the iraninians, but he a also then t turned ard and supppplied smallll arms fofor the contntras. the e iran-iraq q war, he provivided weaponons to b both sides.s. october, 1 1985, monzer a al-kassar,, he hadad aligned h himself with t the palestitinian didissident grgroups. the papalestinian n liberationot wawanted to pipirate the italalian cruisese liner achille e lauro, take pasassengers hohostage so thehey can negogotiate with the i israeli govovernmet to relelease onone of theirir fighters.. monzer w was the supupplier ofof the weapopons. he b brought thehe weapons from pololand and d turned it t over to t the fighterers. -palalestinian t terroristss have h hijacked an italilian cruise e liner in the medediterraneanan anand are threreatening toto t executing g american p passeng. -four palelestinian fifightes separatedd the amerericans and jewishsh passengerers from all t the other p passeng. marilylyn and leonon klinghoff, a a jewish famamily from n new, were o on the vessssel. at one poioint, theyey were telllling people that they y were goingng to statart killingng passenges if they y didn't getet a safe pe toto bring thehe boat in.. during t the coursee of thehe negotiatitions, the fifighters actctually tok leonon klinghoffffer, who'o's wheelchahair-bound,, shot him a and then ththrew hm into the m mediterranenean. eventually, they gotot a safe plplace to bringng the boat t in. the fighghters got o off the ve. the hoststages were e release. the fighghters got o on the pl, and d they flew w out. they got a away. ♪ -he provovided the l logistis for the e hijacking g of the sp and providided the weaeapons. how w could you u be any y more invololved? and d how could d you not be consididered a tererrorist if y you're one e of the top arms d dealers in n the worl? ththose terrorists killeled an a american and ththrew him ofoff a ship. and nobodydy could tououch hi. -monzezer was a glglobal crimi. he livived in one e place. he b bought thinings fromom one otherer place. he sent ththem to a ththird pl. they'd e end up in a a fourth p. and d none of ththe countries had d jurisdictition over hi. to be e successfulul in going after a a global cririminal, yoyou need to o have a peperfect undederstandingg of h how he funcnctioned. ththe questionon was nevere, shouould he be i indicted? the questition was, could wewe get closese enough to indicict him? -aftfter the pirirating of the acachille laururo, monzer a al-kassar kept on n surfacing.g. he conontinued supupporting terrorisism around t the worl. and becaususe i was woworking hn for ththe longest t time in nenk and the e heroin wouould go from the m middle eastst into eitheher italy oror fran, i get trtransferred d to pari. that w was in 198888. i'i'm sitting in m my office, and i ststarted thininking, "i need d to get him." but we dididn't have a a case thatat we could d prove against alal-kassar. i i says, "welell, there's a t momore we knowow of what m monz, but what c could we prprove?" i wanteded to gatherer as muh as i couould on the e guy. of course,e, i talkedd to the i interpol pepeople. coconstantly,, his naname would p pop up. they all k knew him, and theyey all kneww he w was a majoror trafficker and a a terrorist.t. people w who had accccess to monzer's s propertieses gave us dodocuments and a lot t of good ininformatn about t him. as we rereviewed thehe documen, we could s show that m monzer was very m much involvlved wiwith all thehese palelestinian teterrorist grgr. he supupplied the e weapons for r the piratiting of t the achilllle lauro. we know w that hehe helped fifinance it becacause there e were movemes of m money in hihis account. so we wewere probingng him. we were hihitting him.m. we w were lockining up people that w were a partrt of t this organinization, at leastst in europepe. and d i felt thahat we got to be prpretty closese to make e the case against t al-kassar.r. atat this timeme, my oldesest dr was boborn in pariris. after shshe's born,, i leavave the hospspital toto go get sosome flowersr. a vevery well-drdressed middle easastern man p pops o, and hehe says, "mrmr. jim! mr.r" whenen i looked d at him, i knew w who he was.s. he was al-l-kassar's d driver when al-kakassar came e to par. why doeses he know w who i a? anand he says,s, "mr. al-k-kar wowould like t to congratutulau on the birirth of yourur daught" anand my daughghter was probablyly born, maybe,e, six hoursrs earlier. ththey knew. they k knew she hahad been bo. in the ' '80s, ththis organizization wass moving d drugs toto the uniteted states.. bubut then, his armsms business s took of. he w was livingg in mararbella, spapain. he made lolots of moneney. this guyuy was walkiking aroud in his p palatial esestate. he madade his liviving off f the ills o of other pepe. i i mean, he createded so much h havoc. you knowow, someone e had to o someththing about t it. and soso, the e spanish ararrested al-l-r for the pipirating of the acachille laururo. bebecause of m me having g ge ththrough a lolong period d ofe working g this invesestigatio, they asksked me to t testify in trial i in madrid.. i sat two o people away from hi. literalllly, i couldld reach out and toucuch him. several l members of his o organizatioion that were e going to testify, two of them werere killed. one of thehem, his kids were kikidnapped. eveventually, he gets kikilled,. and a a very crititical witnes. chchanged his s story. so, hehe was acquiuitted of t that chargege. we triried. but he wasas a very t treacherousus guy. noththing stuck k to him. once you h hear thatat he was reresponsiblee for the dedeaths of mamany peo, yoyou can't, l like, say,, "well,l, that doesesn't matte" i didn't't think we'e'd get anor opopportunity y at that popo. i realally didn't.t. no.. nono. -part of the problem was u.s. laws stated that people who operated between international boundaries, like monzer al-kassar, were unable to be prosecuted. -even in our own couountry, people dididn't undersrstand. yoyou know, ifif the bombsbse goining off in f france or g ge, it didn'n't really a affect usn the ununited statetes all thata. -[ s screaming ] ] itit wasn't ununtil 9/11 that we e actually r realized that we'e're all cononnected, absolutetely. -in a few w moments, i'll be e signing ththe u.s.. papatriot imprprovement and reauththorization n act. this is a really important piece of legislation. itit is a piecece of legisisln that's vitital to win t the war on n terror and d to protectct the amamerican peoeople. -s-so there wewere new lawas thatat were creaeated that allowowed the e united statates governrt to pursusue extrataterritorialal targets who residede outside the unitited statess anand prosecute them within thehe united ststates. -we, as s a country,y, have to d sosome kind ofof message t t, ifif you're gogoing to comommits againsnst americanans, you're g going to faface some d of c charges. the spspecial opererations divin at dea wasas developeded to help a a group of s senior ininvestigatorors enforce e the. -in speciaial operatioions, they develeloped the bilalateral invevestigativet to s specificalllly gogo out and t touch ththe untouchahables. so, we wenent out and d targed those inindividualss thatat were opererating outside ththe united s states that a affected ththe united s . -so byby 2006, we had newew laws on t the boo, anand we get t the opportutuy toto do a casese like thiss on a lififelong crimiminal anand terrorisist thatat nobody hahas ever been able e to touch.. -our rolole, as the e team, wawas to come e up with a a gam. by h hook or by y crook, we're going to make a case, fifind out what monzer is doing and find a way to prosecute him. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to a $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yep, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network and that powers more businesses than anyone else. learn how you can get $1000 back for your business today. comcast business. powering possibilities. -our rolole as the t team was to come e up with a a game pl. by h hook or by y crook, we're goining to make e a cas, fifind out whahat monzer i is g and find a a way to prprosecute. -i t think the f first challle alalways with h a terrorisist, how w do we get t close? the dea a would workrk with o our local c counterpars and devevelop sourceces of infnformation.. their woworking withth sourcs was a vevery large part of d dea successss worldwide. and you u can't realally make a a good casese if you d don't have e a good so. and in thihis particulular ca, we're talklking about t a terrot in anotherer country with assocociates all over t the world.. he d definitely y was cautios on who wouould get clolose and d who he wouould talk to. so, hohow do we fifind a sourcrt can get toto this inner circle? -jim h had a relatationship with a higigh-level sosource ththat had beeeen utilizedd by thehe dea for apprproximately y 20 year. his naname was samamir. in new yorork, in the e early 1, jim arreststed samir for narcrcotics trafaffickin. -we arreststed him, anand i kw he was preretty important. he wasas palestininian by bir, well-educated,d, well-readad, multilingual, phenomenally bright. and i knew he woululd be useful because he underststood ththe global criminal networks. as a a source, he had thehe capabilitities of followiwing throughgh. i i first met t samir in '84 or early '85.5. back in them days, we could p pull a prisisoner out to i interview them, but he n never said d anythin. and d i receiveded my lunchh in frontnt of him. i used to o buy ththe kebab sasandwiches and stufuff right bebefore i i walked in n there, soso you couldld smell the food, , you know.. i alwaways broughtht enough fof. i said, "w"would you l like so" he wouldn'n't say anytything. he just sasat there. after, likike, i don't't kno, seseveral of t these thingn, he f finally saiaid to me, "whahat do you w want from m " i told h him, "i"i want you u to cooperara, and we neeeed informatation on t traffickersrs." ♪ so, ththat's when n i first stsd working wiwith him. and ththen, over t the years, we jusust, you knonow, wewe worked onon a lot ofof differentnt projects s tog. -we were looooking to dedevelp a weaknessss withinin monzer's s organizati. samir's jojob was to b broker a meeting g with monzezer, but there were a n number of s s ththat had to o happen firir. if monzer's the e hub ofof the wheelel, the spokeses are closese associs thatat monzer hahad developed in hisis criminal l activitie. one of thohose spokess was tatareq al-ghahazi. tarereq al-ghazizi had a a long histotory ofof arms trafafficking inin pd with m monzer al-k-kassar. samir neneeded to pepenetrate his inner r circle by y establig a relatitionship with tareqeq al-ghazii and eventutually set u up a meeteting with m monzer al-ka. -at this point, i'd beenen working w with samr for a a lot of yeaears. and i said, "do you understand, if you decide to do this, that your life will change forever? you'll never be the same again." he said, "i'll do it." i said, "n"no." i made him sleleep on it.. "go. come back tomorrow. let's talk tomorrow." kassar would not take it lightly. and we're not in the business of getting anybody hurt. ♪ -so in b beirut, lebebanon, ouour confidenential sourcrce, , was s able to memeet tareq a al, develop a relatitionship over the coursee of apppproximatelyly one yea. he was a able to gaiain al-g-ghazi's trurust, and, eventntually, samamir asd the millllion-dollarar questi, whicich is, "can you g get a weapopons del with monzer al-kassasar for me" criminalals are alwaways cautis becacause the dedea has built a lalarge humann intelllligence netetwork. soso it was exextremely hahd to s set up a memeeting with mononzer al-kasassar. but,t, eventually, he w was successssful in b being able e to do that. but t samir came to us inin july of 2 2006 anand stated t that momonzer had r requested that an enend user cerertifice be provideded beforere he would d meet with . we knew that could potentially be a problemem. in t the arms trtrafficking g , inin order to o make a weaeas tranansaction lelegitimate,, it statarts with an end useser certificicate. an end u user certifificate is a documument producuced by a countntry or military or police force ththat statess that t the items l listed onon the certitificate are for ththeir sole u use and that t these goodsds wowould not bebe resold to a third party.. monznzer could shohow this certificatate and say,y, "i was acting in g good faithh inin conductining this traransa" we came e up with a a few counts thatat would be e likely canands whwho could prproduce anan end user certificatate for. our r office in n managua had a greaeat working g relatiop with the n nicaraguan n offici. so i i went downwn to nicarara in j july of 200006. our r dea officece there setep a memeeting for r me to m meet with t the general. it was an n older buililding. itit didn't eveven have elelect. wewe met in a a dark, cacandlelit roroom. a buncnch of genererals were s d around a l large tablele, and d all i coululd make out was brbrief outlinines of facs througugh the cigagar smoke. i i went over r what we wewe lookoking for, what weaeapons we wewere lookg to putut on the end d user certitificate, snipiper rifles,s, rpg-7 7 grenades l launchers, susurface-to-a-air missilel, and asked d for their r assista. so alolong with ththe certific, what the n nicaraguansns were ablble to do is prorovide a telelephone that someoeone could l later c, meanining monzer or one o of his associates, in ordrder to verirify the e authenticicity of t the end useser certificie that came out ofof nicaraguau. once monzezer receiveded the end user certitificate frorom t, he agrgreed to a m meeting in beirut,t, lebanon,, inin december r of 2006. the dedea had been investigagag monzer al-kassssar sincnce its inceception in the 197970s. now wewe had a chahance toto arrest hihim and convnvicm and d be able to keep hihim behind b bars. and the way that we had set this deal up was just strange enough to be believable. we are grocery outlet and we are your bargain bliss market. what is bargain bliss? you