And neither do authorities attempts to cloud 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 shara alissa 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 been a, is a syrian allies. Iran is the syrian ally that can so of course a mom lee 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 the father for my son was still a child. He also joined the special forces and it will cost. I was just good, a good hands. Well say that the group, the list of 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 may 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. So it has to have the money. The a tons of cocaine was half 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, heats less conspicuous. And freedom of movement throughout most of europe, parents was chosen as the hub for his beloved 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, which is, or 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, im 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 less than the security situations get the example. See dont, thats also. So i appreciate the tears. Okay, so im going to us investigators gave me a phone number on what else . I said it belonged to the courier who collected the money could it could also available the the so im really, i think within 24 hours they identified that phone as belonging to the home and theyre all dean. Let me know it is it can take up to a local official there that mohammed, new or dean had his officers in 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 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 recordings and transcribe. So it was all about money and issue. He was planning to connect in paris, a 1000000 euros a week, the the correct so the hand of us were fast people task 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 coach mercedes, 500 meant 500000 euros. A truck meant a 1000000 when i came in, samuel the flu clinic to so the philosophy that is the hand of us would happen in an underground parking garge, or to a restaurant or even on the street. Lets go, a new man was all practicing this was the ones that comp 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 citrix, i dont say buying sell watches is one of new or deans man would find luxury watches and pay in cash. You know that kind of, hes spent over 13000000 euros and a yes and what we talking road. Excellent. Ill take felipe, paul odom op you 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 11 on they dont cost they used import export Companies Like spoil it on the perfect vehicle on saturday. Yeah. The she was a guy who was trusted to look very large amounts of money and oversee couriers who are carrying back money. Sometimes just in samsung, id sense, you know, plain sight of his 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. Now, 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, and piracy is golden triangle, drinking age whiskey in the plaza, alternate bomb thats going to months, cause cats when i saw that because what the france of tears is some ways 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 the traffic is in Eastern Europe. The form is socialist republics. Were walsh with weapons in harris said from the soviet union among the ice targets was a king pain in the Drug Trafficking. Well 11, a citizen with connections and ukraine and russia. The agents call me up in a go hey, have you ever heard of this ali sayed, i go have i ever heard of . Ill go ahead. Yeah. The test. The guys really, really significant. Hes moving weapons for iran and hassle into the middle east. A hi, siad was a well known, well documented arms dealer who is worked with russians and ukrainian homes deal is to provide has full 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 the 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 fly head, and heres conspirators. Were looking to get cocaine also. So we had a k k 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. The rest of i changed the lease in april 2014 and not a hotel in pride clicked on the us lease. I intended to sell weapons through 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 a new way of, of, of his expedition is if checked military intelligence gets involved military intelligence is very much under the influence still of, of russia and put a net could cause a major problem in the x. You additional cya 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. Set up with the aim of keeping the shot aside in power. But the d. E a was walking into a mine field hezbollah as criminal networks were being protected by most go. The longer the will wind 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 silly of the, of the data and the look back. You know how to set this i think with his philosopher healy 3. So using the data, you end up in twice as many were injured and thats it. This is solve it. How many on the ice of that live altogether. But manually 10000 families were type to define the finally that so lots of people bought the new government on other computers and done the keeping an i mean, of course, the only show we pray after we hope to before, if you like. No, no beautiful food. Come my darling sit down. Thanks for all your hard work. Allegedly fast. And what is it that bennett . Im sorry. 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 because it would make me happy to be able to send them to jihad 20 behaved in may. And then may have been, is your 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 extra from him. So 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 to be, 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, if youre braver than i am, the other side of the part of the mazda to 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, i mean like that. Then you know, 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 a, syria, all it has whole numbers done how many are any what 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, theres more gates so we can approach here in the future. The, to worry 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, newer dean had plans to come to france us and we were waiting for him with both 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 germanys israel in italy and elsewhere to meet you over the account and they denied everything. Oh, worried about getting who said he hadnt collected or roland admonished. Most of it, if you dont do though not to things he couldnt in the high for apply to play down his own role in the whole central florida. We found out that the, the cocaine proceeds said, 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 to syria facing the us to he 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, 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 who 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 component. The temperature outside of 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 man. When he 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 got 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 failed then 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 xena has blown me. I know that sounds strange cuz 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, i 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, 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 a run over a deal to reign in the atlantic republics nuclear program. And iran was his bill as a long time backup philosophically project. Cassandra became a problem. Our actions became a problem lots of work to 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 of the today, after 2 years of negotiations, the United States together were international partners. Because a cheap something the decades of animosity has not a comprehensive long term deal with or 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 of 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 which would be the prison today. The president brought me in paris, so that was it. This has been a 17 years tips underwriting and present to the president fraud jim. The tip of a new issue, of course, the same day, special agent jack kelly also landed in par