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 dont 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 lets, 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 dont 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 rileys 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 its 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 whats 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. Im 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 dont 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 ones 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 im 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 lebanons 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. Im is in deep trouble financially. Normally, you know, somebody finds a country, their Credit Rating goes down, you know, money doesnt flood into their contract. Okay. Im 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 oclock, 8 oclock 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 thats 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. Thats why the couldnt 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 dont 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 were going to start impacting your ability to feel comfortable. Were, youve 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 im 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. Im in june and how we can possibly a full tre, his network, right in lebanon. Im 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, youre 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 im 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 its the future. But i, i think i always do it on purpose because i didnt want to give us any idea that i thought like, im 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 others glass, he had this look of the if i get the chance im 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 havent given us theres, theres actually nothing that youve given us that we dont 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 dont 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 dont 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 im managing billions of dollars and loans and equity investments. And the rest of the day im hanging out with guys like jack kelly and, and others. Since that, which is like, you know, id fly from new york, i the other play, you know, writing the dallas. And id 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 im like, hey, i just met with the, you know, george soros, you know, the, the Us Department of justice decided to charge, im on juma, we Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering balance. He, itll re, the going on the ground, the project. Cassandra was stepped up about 100 agents when now working to find im on to him is accomplices. The investigation focused on venezuela . A south American Country plus style to the us. Its 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 its 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. Were 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 theyre being financed through narcotics trade. The tariff mouse, whos 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. Theres a airline that have been as well called comedy. I saw some of called an arrow terror, and we started learn. Theres 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, im gonna have the money that we welcome you distinguish the leader of a road, people that dont 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 persons like track ellis, im a whos the former minister of interior and i believe a former Vice President hes 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 theres formal Financial Institutions the yesterday, the department of treasurys 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. 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