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listen to process and will take you along to the right side. the next page you, the explosion killed 9 people to and wounded around a 100 feet per re re was quickly removed from the wreckage of the card with what was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. the carbone, which contained at least 350 kilograms of explosives listed for 810 meters in diameter cycle. it was impossible for the former prime minister to survive the attack. i don't the,

the really was threats to syrian domination in 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, of us today has blocked them. how pretty they took control of the latter, moving on. the government is that the presidency to never complex? what time they neutralize the all me and c test one more, not let us when they began to physically eliminate anyone in lebanon, 40 death, to say no to haskel, left with you to 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 cart. so we want to to apply the same logic that was successful going

after the italian organized crime families going after cartels in columbia. i mean, the car tells a good, but as well as another whole of the, the since the nation, the former prime minister of fi korea re sent a shockwave for 11 on and the international community. the eyes turned to syria, which stood accused of being the mazda mind. behind the attack of to launch scale demonstrations, syrian president bush shaw alyssa troops which it occupied the thoughts of living

on so 29 years and so withdrew the with the syrian, withdrew his beloved last a long time ally and protector. and his beloved found itself accused of being involved in receipt. reread the assassination the now weakened, his molar continued on its positive violence. first didn't live in on itself when his bill awaits to campaign against its political opponents. and then outside its food is his full attracted soon enemy, israel, the

nazena. but now the and the s o gan. and they said 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 rage, the presence of many, most of the serenity site the as the law has captured 2 soldiers and 11 the what did they give to a lot of us, but we have no details about hezbollah as kidnapping of to israeli soldier due sunday, the israel is taking the incident very serious when he signed the football. goodman at the we use a was a risk of but we estimated that risk to be around 5 or 10 percent. we did not

expect a wall of that magnitude had the home, the most severe loans. it's really lebanese bowls of times and helicopters have been sending the region all day is really all me has and to the southern level. so go to the membership event on the lebanese government, but which has the lowest possible mean mean 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 where they are delusional. let him have them put them in

the whole community since the mainland. we had a terrible suspicion to move away. maybe one of the reasons for this war was that we confronted tests and this rylon has beloved god was facts. it showed hezbollah was behind the assassination of her really hezbollah, kidnapped to his release soldiers and caused the situation that explodes the we stayed the 1st days and is full of what's coming. they have to leave, so as to leave. so i release the phone please. that his boy not expected. what

would happen later, as i expected this extremely heavy bombard demands the since 20 years. i am living here in the cells and some books off by a route which i course adelphia the . so we're really into kind of get to here, controlled by his doings was that was a good office will not fight to us sitting in our garden discussing. in other words,

having that kind of meeting. and i was by making because i saw if the dogs will kept so his boss sitting in our garden, they were more months a 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 so smooth. if you take one's the americans would pay you a $1000000.00 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 block online emerge. mobile media is assessing data and the, all of a sudden this, you,

we need to long food stores every well and is a suite of a much more 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 paid you. a 1000000 of dollars was a month monday. the off to $33.00 days of these really bombings has obtained a ceasefire without releasing the 2 hostages in bay route. as well as lita house on us, rama celebrated the victory of the militia over its long time. enemy res, be to god for this victory. awesome,

no serrano had boasted his status as a hero in much of the world in his youth expo as militia had humiliated these rail but they needed money to finance lebanon's reconstruction. this was the moment, the d. e, a, the us drug enforcement administration had been waiting for its 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 here, force destroyed every major bridge and lab 9 they destroyed, make many the road systems airport was impacted place with k s,

the 11. i'm is in deep trouble financially. so normally, you know, somebody finds a country, their credit rating goes down, you know, money doesn't flood into their country. okay, i'm a finance guy. this is not how things normally work. but 11 on miracle sap, they need the money and loan. behold what happens, this maisie amount of money was rushing in the lab. i remember what it is and we'll end it at 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock in the morning. his law was pleasant. evelyn. well, people able to go somewhere to complains that i had lost the house. and memorial of the family was good fellows and all families had lost every thing this law was also like a compensation give i will receiving to alone

$10000.00 money. most of calls coming from you on the national and at the will you receive aid from iran? why that's common knowledge light on, while others lack in a has with law, but has. but i also did rights income from the home of the tax that the faithful pay left the you have to file mean on, on the she a doctrine, the faithful must pay 20 percent of the profit to the what a month and the clerics every year he left the, the day i sent 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 learn. and that's why the good and 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 around for their big bucks. and how much money will list as for present hundreds of millions of dollars a year. hundreds of millions of dollars a year in cash. out of the month, we don't provide any information about our budgets or weapons or i'll pause. so now those are poverty secrets. in 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 model, that money was dr. money. but the key thing is who organizes well, ultimately in mind with neon. so the spelling meters 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 authority 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 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. h like dentist on international money laundering circuits and the organization of his beloved co, the network which worked with south american drug contests, the

show, 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 in a car towel we call them sell heads, right. what has bought? 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 level 911, east male called i'm in june. and juno was far, far above a guy like check the harvard because a very powerful man the

just a bridge between the columbia and cartels money and has plus mean he was like the only guy who was a sunni who was living in the hardest course. yeah. area, southern bay route, you know, have beautiful apartment, i believe on the beach started by has blood guards and things here unusual so in our entire focus was on, i'm in june and how we can possibly a full tre, his network. right in lebanon. i'm in june wanted to meet with us sometimes our, our top international targets. they get wind of the indictment or we'd let them

know sort of in a quiet way, hey, you know, you're indicted. what often happens is uh through through a lawyer they have uh, or maybe even directly. 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, 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 decide is going my shorts and a t shirt into the trump tower. they it obviously like, hey, where's your, it's the future,

but 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. he's all my boss . no doubt. i say real quiet through most of the meeting and then finally i so you this is you haven't given us there. there's absolutely 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. their research to see taking pictures of us is basically

certain that hezbollah had launch and intelligence investigation on. um asher, 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. are you scared? no, definitely scared. no, i, i mean i took it as you took it as a compliment and, and then he also felt like, well, we must really be doing our job because they're so pissed off at a so. so like you have to ask the advisor fever scared of the i was scared, but who knows? the

when i started project cassandra with my partner jack kelly and our fearless leader, jerry malls, they knew i had another job. i don't think they quite realize where it works. yeah, i worked at $375.00 park avenue in new york and the 33rd floor, one of the sewage for $2000000000.00 hedge fund. where is a partner? this is my side project. you know, so, you know, have to dam managing billions of dollars and loans and equity investments. and the rest of the day, i'm hanging out with guys i get kelly and, and others. since that, which is like, you know, i'd fly from new york on the other plane, you know, right in the dallas. and i'd like to dress like this. i, you know, business do these guys over in blue jeans and you know, like t shirts since then, you know, i can like bunch of babylon 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 had already going on the ground, the projects. 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 its process j has below the me. ringback i come from a family to police and government service and. ringback sort of society and talked

to mary trying to do a little bit of a new world. we're out of the special operations division and we were called the bilateral us together to. ringback so originally we were. ringback focused on change trends, 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 multiples are special agent in charge for most of my tour, their tax invest. we started realizing how has block was moving operations into vince 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 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 then as well, of because use the gateway and through our penetrations in venezuela. we also started to learn a lot about has the we did learned our investigations that we have done as well. and social one over to a meeting in damascus area. and i 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 on a near the military operations for has blah the clearly those are very contrary to the national security policies of the united states. they believe they shared a common enemy and has more certainly offering their expertise and resistance and creating so let's just systems the some of the other, i think interesting connections that came out were example, those are airline at event as well. come the also some of the called an arrow terror, and we started learned 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, cocaine 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 is a lot of code the, this partnership is now code terrace partnership is emerging between the government event as well under hugo chavez and the iranians. and has of the many 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. the sister of the venezuelan revolution, not only is dominic revolution today, oregon as well as celebrating their home, you know, welcome my brother selma lake on there. many of them, i know some of the drugs became part of the resistance, narco resistance drafting the job roads. the incidentals parts, their youth spoils their power the we started to see some really higher level. ben as well. and officials, persons like truck 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 is 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 massive amounts of money is to be laundered through the 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. so they became settlement and, and element in the drive 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 him are set out until god finally chose him as a martyr. understand he was killed by the assassins of the prophet, the new foster division that honored 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 mcneil, i got into his, into his vehicle, uh and the explosive was that needed?

killing him instantly on the, the the maker on presented 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 mag nia has been a, didn't just lose its top military leader. it also lost the man who controlled the organizations, at least that financial flows that weekend

has been has power inside living own fonts. the policy of gold has a history of when quoted going on, attack tests on this rolla decided to take the offensive and loan check who says you would not be able to beat that by the street to pay route to be paid. the empty, the lebanese ami a paid to have banished, i said, find magic natural, the chief of defense set to me get out of hand to us, i can on with call to the phone. so don't put any roadrunner. so drive through the road blocks. of course, they have to show that have you people sheets like the post, traditionally, how does it go from administer communities confidential? the

least because with the home that day has blown munitions interest in black, like invited the capital exec to move. it was like when was suddenly much storm wrong, she was about to move. it was as though his beloved taken off its mask. well that his below was there to defend lip and one against israel able to help it wanted full control of 11 on and it was working its way forward. okay. i taking control bit by bit while i

make a note of that. so the new attachment bundled is what is gradually erosion of state power, one that would eventually lead us to the situation that still exists to die with how something us rather holding absolute power of 11. i'm so the, the 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. i know what their aim was to provoke a war between the lebanese army and our resistance, and the value of them. well, if i see that there was one person making the decisions, see that much house on this road lot. the behind, the real decision maker was telling me

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

need to be on some of this strategy draws upon a historical fantasy. reestablishing the former persian empire all the way to the mediterranean sea level. since the con, the thanks to a ron's unwavering 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 billows drug money, the d. e, a found itself in the c communities of west africa, which is also home to

a launch 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 just as big stretches of beach and then a 2070 start to see the used car lot started in march by 2008. they're full of cars like 304-0000 cars a week or 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. well, quite a few of them are owned by lebanese who were support as it has the, all the crew will be, was living in building. he was one of the main guys that established working with aman juma. and all of these guys that were establishing has fullest operations in africa. they would take the drug money by used cars, sand, those used cars to west. they accurate sell the 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 co game. 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 belonged to the 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 what are you familiar with them? what mine, what money loan drinking are they talking about? we have neither bank accounts nor trading companies on that as an odd affair. all 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 ongoing? all much i'm so lot of up and the mobile we estimated about $200000000.00 a month was being generated from this game. that's all over through the mac, right? $200000000000.00 times 12, right? that's $2400000000.00 annually.

the figuring that out was enough of a challenge to me. so it was complicated or, and you know, way that 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 started to see our opportunity to try to show as well. i had a plan in place and then that was let's take over a bank. and the easiest way to do that was 11 by 2009, 2010. we started to look at the lebanese 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, that 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 monday and suitcases. and it's only because we have cars that, 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 into a bank. it's only 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 came 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 back,

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 only is limits to organization. off to several years of obstruction, the inquiry into roof the career is assassination, was revived. the united nations established the special tribunal for 11 on for the 1st time. the legal impunity under which has below headlong seemed to operate was finally being called into question the creation of this special tribunal from the for 11. and is the result of a tragedy. the killing of a former prime minister of 22 and the 1st the s c l is the 1st international anti terrorist tribunal. the creation of the tribunal was

a political decision. it's operation, however, it is and must remain above politics. the special tribunal for 11 and is now in session. what else are to be now speciality put out of the box at 2 val it's we have was, i swear, i mean these rules in 2010. i drawing this special tribunal for 11 on known as the s t l, which i came to investigate the assassination of prophy cutty and a group of related crime who next the you'll continue getting us go tell me it is. it was a sensitive investigation because we were working abroad in a difficult, intense environment. we traveled in ahmed congress will to that with lots of check points. while we lived in a dotted residence, a every precaution was taken the question because the investigators were talking to

so it says, i'm the very okay. it is a go ahead already being lebanese investigations which provided the deal 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 network that was on my ead, regularly met with international investigators to share what he done, covered the, the only you said i told him that one's

a lot when he was returning from one of these meetings. there and this car was pulling up the pull, they killed him as a president of them. a couple of the cause of the law is responsible. without a doubt, they threatened my son twice and told him, stop harassing us the message 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, a fee career re remains officially unsolved. it is not for lack of evidence, evidence which points directly and indirectly to hezbollah. the,

the, the telephone delta lenders to a group that probably had ties to as well. uh, it was a group with the beats 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 that the of the assassination, the national not the yeah. then that we can say to all these evidence to be purely circumstantial law. why the guy that it's based on telephone data that isn't

reliable. we'll see. and in mind, 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 in the lebanese say, oh, they made this that the c i a did, they're stupid. they're liar, super liars, the a document charges each of the 4 accused. that's mr. sally in general. i ash missed the 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. cynthia, you'll let me up. if i were any warning, i believe they can just issue a warrant, and we'll think that we would allow them to arrest even one of our fighters both these under the mistaken we wouldn't drop off the hand of anyone who dares not touch one of our fighters see the, the, the, the, was a warning to the lebanese state, and journalists don't come after us for her weary cause will kill you. you i tell you good enough for all his office, knock on the door and say, i'm doing simple ask and i want to do the field on his killing her weary and you probably not come out 11 all life. they don't joke. ralph is

the just jesus, he said, the international justice international law and international arrest warrants to the means. nothing of tools, no competitive. she's the 15 years off the roof, the career he's assess the nation. the special tribunal for living on issued its verdict, is into elite 3 members of his beloved received launch sentences into a sent you. all 3 men remained 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 port for as below 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, the,

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