Their protests show, no signs of easing, and neither do authorities attempts to quote them and you say more than 1300 people have been killed recently moved them in law start on march 15th most if youre funny cuz im not that was panic in damascus for charlotte. You no longer they have to leave his house is still sick. People were coming from a suburb spot from the north and south of the country. So how, so im not strong, i was instructed to intervene unless i loved that differed. You know, the National Full defense list we allied with syria has blog, is the syrian allies. Iran is the syrian ally that can so of course a mom come on a decision and gave us the strength to do the right thing. And im a law. Im instead of charlotte, 1st of all, so happy about it. But when that message comes from the Office Supreme leader, thats the end of the conversation. And they go as involved with the dentist. And that was where you had this gun with me in syria, in uh, with the lead troops. I mean it father for my son was still a child. He also joined the special forces will cost. What did you do to the law that the group the, the issue of them is that the 3000 soldiers became 5, then 6000. The is completely a new his ball are because its a regular army with surface to air missiles and units a become a real military. The project, cassandra identified a component known as the Business Affairs component. Their primary role was to establish the Drug Trafficking operations to generate the revenue that has a conflict in syria. They had to have the money. The a tons of cocaine was, have a 1000000000 euros with seasonal stance. By of, of we had a really successful, 2014 against has, will culminate and over course 3 weeks of a season over a tons of cocaine. Out of the port in rotterdam. Suddenly as the law as not resisting israel, its just the butchering fellow muslims. Suddenly its evolved in a deeply sectarian country. These people like the mafia, like the guys who sit around the table with tony soprano, the of the from 2010 friends became the preferred refuge, the hezbollah operatives. The country had several advantages, including a launch Lebanese Community that might be offered to its less conspicuous. And freedom of movement throughout most of europe, parents was chosen as the hub for his billows, Money Laundering operations, the, the us Drug Enforcement administration, o. D, e a. I looked at the French Police, and together they began a new chapter of project. Cassandra, they dumped it operation c to off to lebanons national symbol. The operation said it was a spin off investigation onto the umbrella project. Cassandra operation c to focused on the European Network the, the leaders of now our operations in europe is, is really captain mugs and his team shift as opposed to the value of tax. It is, oh uh, what, uh, yeah, the head of the d. E. A in paris informed me of a network of lebanese operatives in europe. They were very active as active collecting zone during transferring drunk money costs out of that stuff. A big financial loss is looking to set up in front of you. That was a concern, a because it wouldnt let us and the security situations get the example. See dont, thats also. So i appreciate the time. Okay, so im gonna us investigators gave me a phone number. What else . I said it belonged to the courier who collected the money could it could also available the so im really, i think within 24 hours they identified that phone as belong to the home and theyre all dean. Let me know it is it can take you up to a local official there. That mohammed, newer dean had his officers and the favorites Stock Exchange the dont. Lets just about take extra cash offset and he wasnt in hiding. He was well respected and stuffed you heres the investigation began by why i typing the telephone number or what it meant. So i could go the owner of the software. We got hundreds of hours worth of recording some transcript. So it was all about money, an issue he was planning to connect in paris, a 1000000 euros a week. The the correct, so the honda of us were fast old people passed bags to each other without even counting the cash they trusted each other. So it might be 450000. 00 bureau, just a 2nd. They had co, mercedes, 500 meant 500000 euros. A truck meant a 1000000 when i came in, samuel the to so the flash, the that is the hand of us. What happened in an underground parking got such a hard, a restaurant or even on the street. Lets go and then was all practicing this was the ones that coll pulled up on the show was a lease a right next to one of the agents and the money change time was all just wondering if you, if you want the yeah, there was also buying sell watches is one of new or deans men would find luxury watches and pay in cash. You know that kind of, hes spent over 13000000 euros and a yes and what were talking road. Excellent. Ill take felipe. Paul odom up, he gave one project really watch was purchased in cash for 700000 beautifully. You know its own kids with similar fits. They also use the warranties with then transported to let them know they dont. They used import export Companies Like spoil it on the perfect vehicle center. The the, she was a guy who was trusted to move very large amounts of money and oversee couriers who were carrying back money. Sometimes just in samsung, id sense, you know, plain sight out of child the golf, back to baby room. You know, air france as jerry, these satellites of millions of dollars and the, you know, couple of 1000000. 00 in each stamps that i gosh, guess not. It wasnt always like that, but sometimes it was that ridiculous. And he was a super facilitator for drive. Monument gets way from your back to 11. I no doubt the is less than will tell you what im, what uh, from what i saw at the time. It didnt seem like, has the boss. Yeah. These people, but especially religious. Know they were more likely hanging out in piracies Golden Triangle drinking, aged whiskey in the plaza, alternate bomb thats going to months, cause thats what i saw the rest. Because what the france appears in some way is to be there command and control center, further activities in the rest of your while French Police were uncovering mohammad nor a deans network project, cassandras american agents were following the trail of loaded money to live in on and beyond that trail led them to traffic is in Eastern Europe. The form is socialist republics. Were walsh with weapons in episode from the soviet union. Among the ice targets was a king pain in the Drug Trafficking world 11 a citizen with connections and ukraine and russia. The ages call me up in a go hey, have you ever heard of this ali sayed and i go have i ever heard of the ill go ahead. Yeah. The test. The guys really, really significant. Hes moving weapons for iran and hassle into the middle east. The hi siad was a well known, well documented arms dealer who is worked with russians and ukrainian homes deal is to provide has full of weapons. Right. And these guys, you know, they were going to provide, you know, the g a k rifles surface to m. S. They had access to the most sophisticated Weapons Systems in the world. The once you get the charge, the guess a guy like fired, you have to figure out what country can we arrest them. And that country also has a extradition treaty with United States and uh, we identified progress in the Czech Republic. The 3 info traded the network. What are form which can portray themselves as members of the fox in columbia that needed weapons to kill americans. And of course, always swayed and heres conspirators. Were looking to get cocaine also. So we had a copay for weapons view. So the Operational Plan was to do the arrest as he exited the room in the hallway of the hotel. So the room is wire to, for video and audio. And then at 1 point, one of the sources says, you know, and we want anti aircraft missiles to kill americans in columbia. And then after we killed these americans all cut off one of the americans heads. And i will present it to you always play it as a present and all if i had jumped up from the couch and went over and hauled the under cover. Alicia yeah, it is one of 3 foreigners arrested by chance. Police in april 2014 and not a hotel in prod clicked on the us least intended to so weapons to columbia and terrorist and traffic drugs. Alief i, its lawyer says his guy, it works for the lebanese secret service will if we get this guy to the states, then hes going to be maybe our main witness to take out his stroke cartel. Theres only one thing that could get in the way of, of, of these extradition is, is check. Military intelligence gets involved military intelligence is very much under the influence still of, of russia and food. And that could cause a major problem in the expedition of via the, the wrist as leafy. It was a major trans for the us Drug Enforcement administration. The dealer was privy to Sensitive Information about the war in syria. He was at the heart of the military alliance between his bella, iran, and russia. Setup with the aim of keeping the shot all a sudden in power. But the d. E a was walking into a mine field, as well as criminal networks were being protected by most go. The longer the whirlwind tone, the move on to hezbollah functions became the greater the need was for weapons. The price of these military campaigns could be counted in coffins being sent back to 11. 00 on wednesday. The 1st is by law fighters. Locate a segment totally opened for the soul color to my teeth were falling in sealy of the a set of data and the you know how to set this idea with his boss software. Healy 3. So using the data, you end up and twice as many were injured and thats it, that f solve it. How many, im not sure if that level together. But manually 10000 families were excited to define the finding that so lots of people bought the i knew that from and one other because we have done the keeping an eye. And of course, the show we pray after weve talked to before, if youd like. No, no, beautiful food. Come my darling sit down. Thanks for all your hard work. Allegedly, is that fast . I mean, what is it that bennett . And the 1st thing i had 3 girls, so thats why i was very happy about that a pen b g. But i also wanted to have a boy or 2 again that they caused. It would make me happy to be able to send them to jihad 20 behaved and imagine maria dean is here at the about the soda. When my son sent me these pictures and i suddenly sensed that id never see him again. I spent the last hour from home. I thought how do i need additional sort of how that all id have left would be this footage. As a do you have a what i said, my son, you told me you wanted to die a martyr simply but not so fast. It can have it been mad. I wish youd waited a while longer. The other thing is the glory to you, my son, and youre braver than i am. So father solomon, the a thoughts of the mazda was playing over his sons. I mean, im sure they will convince. But i also believe that others must have adults, the sofa indoctrination can go. But for me story, we also know it can go away from the film to show how much all that i need from me. The day of my sons funeral was a celebration. I wasnt sadder, im up there that then maybe today im a little sad, but back then i wasnt not at all or other about done of the as well as should know that around wolf bikes last has 4 member. You know, look what happened is syria, all it has, well numbers done. How many are in each die . Not when are they getting return . Not much. They come back to their bankrupt academy bankrupt banking system. The reports explodes. I mean, its like dante is gates of house. You know, but we can go further down the cycle. You know, we do more gates so we can approach here in the future. The worries syria profoundly change the way many living these people. Thoughts of hezbollah once conceded her row weak resistance fighters, they now came to be seen as an army of mercenaries. The policy leadership had also changed. The phone calls picked up by the french u. S. Wyants happening operation . Sounded like something out of the mafia. Conversations about drugs, weapons, and money. The minority important mohammad new or dean, had plans to come to france us and we were waiting for him with more kind of also the get up started today. Also. We also ran that members of his network and Luxury Hotels in paris. So these are physics at homes in germany is rule in italy and elsewhere. I mean to over the account, they denied everything or eat up organizations who said he hadnt collected or roland admonished. Most of the simple data and up to things he couldnt in the high for a place. He played down his own role in the whole central florida. We found out that the the cocaine proceeds, that neural dean was coordinating at that time was the main funding mechanism. To provide Financial Support to has was purchase of arms out of Eastern Europe in russia to send the syrian basically the us to is of investigation. The agents of projects, cassandra had finally reached, they go they had exposed the secret organization within hezbollah. In charge of coordinating funding for the war in syria and more broadly, all of the policies, clandestine military operations. We were receiving information about this shadow we group within has but wed hear things like, oh, theyre called the financial unit. Theyre called the, the, the banking unit, jack kelly and the team and project cassandra identified a component known as the Business Affairs component. So we started like putting together the pieces of the puzzle using all the experts that we had in the Us Government. Whats going on here . How do you connect all these dots . You know, its like trying to solve a mystery. In member, we have to provide the basically the Business Affairs components had Different Things they want to do. They want to move cocaine. They want to warner money, they want to sell or buy weapons. This business that there some phones got hundreds of companies. And weve mapped out, we know where those companies are, theyre all over the world. Even so many United States the it function is this funnel to control all the secret Bank Accounts all over level non all over the world actually switzerland, lichtenstein, locks and burn paris. The business 1st component makes probably over a 1000000000. 00 a year in a criminal procedure. We have that backed up by records that we got out of liberties came bank the. This is the financing of care the we found out that the, the cocaine proceeds, the neural dean, was coordinating, was under the leadership directly of pod home to boss add into basha. It was one of the main guys involved with the Business Affairs components. The federal effect and the settlement for the type of job was an important lebanese business months, and we owned a launch Construction Company youll say add time. Is the mohammedan or a dean smart lemon waiting is one of the lead fine answers of the rebuilding of, uh, has was neighborhoods and infrastructure in lebanon after the 20064. And whos the guy whos the money master for them . Well, the south field in the book on the financial godfather, certainly the business card, the door southfield the was, has boys in basset to i read, obviously, abdulla southfield being had connections and very high levels of the raining of what toronto needs has the to do of dallas field in runs, it is clear and its basically has bought a royalty of dollar sappy. Ill be has a brother whos the executive director of has and theres room is that he would be a successful finance wrong. The once you get to their level, youre bob dean. It has to me, i know that sounds strange because people who really see wheres your membership card and like they dont need a membership, you know, when they someone sees their face. So like, come right on it and, you know, mean the so when you find as us investigators data bill associated gene involved in a list of financial activities from a rock to south america to europe is coming up over and over again. That gets your attention. It appeared viable that we could actually make a case the guess of the south field and, and perhaps arrest them we, we could do this if people let us do that project, cassandra was approaching the moment of truth. If us investigators got the green lights to arrest of dallas of the l dean, they would be able to take down his bill as close the leadership. But at that moment, political winds were changing. The United States had begun to negotiate with the run over a deal to reign in the atlantic republics nuclear program. And iran was hezbollah as long time baccha philosophically project. Cassandra became a problem. Our actions became a problem. Lots of work to even continue the uranium started to complain about talks. Ive heard this from people are that they complain. They said hes the people are past, she control them, the dates theyre out of control. Thats usually what you do. Want to shut somebody down the today. After 2 years of negotiations, the United States together were international partners. Because a cheap something that decades an animosity has not a comprehensive long term deal with her on that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. This deal demonstrates that american diplomacy can bring about real and meaningful change. Change that makes our country and the world safer and more secure the rock. Obama assigned the Nuclear Agreements with the ron move launch. Lee welcomed by the International Community with the income. The deal bally dry, the rainy and president house on real honey began a triumphant tour of europe, including a stop in france, the cost of the duty war, the 1980s. This was the celebration of the return of economic diplomacy or jewelry. Day the president brought me in paris, so that was it. This has been a 17 years tips underwrit