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mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the next preview the explosion killed 9 people to and wounded around a 100 feet per re re, was quickly removed from the wreckage of the card which was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, the car bomb was contained at least 350 kilograms of explosives lifted freighter and 10 meters in diameter cycle. it was impossible for the former prime minister to survive the attack. i don't think the

really was threats to syrian domination and lebanon. syria has been a close ally to his bo 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 just, you know, that was the day has blocking. pretty they took control of the latter, moving on the government, is that the presidency for the republicans who tend to neutralize the army and sit decimal more to let us when they become so physically eliminate anyone in 11 and 40 to death to say no, to ask a lot of, if you don't know the policy of card, did you read the term and through our investigation that has pull up was operating like a global drug course. so we want to to apply the same logic that was successful going after the italian organized crime families going after the court house in columbia

. i mean, the court tell us a good, but it has version of the whole of the the since the nation, the former prime minister of fee korea re sent a shockwave for $11.00 on and the international community. the eyes turn to syria, which stood accused of being the mazda mind behind the attack. the often launch scale demonstrations syrian president bush shaw alyssa troops, which it occupied fonts of living on for 29 years to withdrew. or

with this syrian withdrawal, his beloved last a long time ally and protector. and his pillow found itself accused of being involved in receipt of retreats. assassination, the now weakened as muller continued on its positive violence. first in living on itself. when his below waged to campaign against its political opponents and then outside its food is his, the attracted sworn enemy, israel, the

dana. but now the end, the esl can scan and is for the evening. 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 raise the presence of many, most of the facility. so that the, as the law has captured 2 soldiers and 11 the gift to a lot of his. but we have no details about hezbollah as kidnapping of to israeli soldier to sunday. the israel is taking the incident very seriously. he signed the bomb, let the lead use it was a risk of war. but we estimated that risk to be around 5 or 10 percent. we didn't

to expect a wall of that magnitude had the home must sit here and that is really lebanese, both the tanks and helicopters have been sending the region all day is really all me has into the southern level. so to make sure that the, the lebanese government, which has the lowest possible maintenance trying to undermine regionals to middle of a day to boot lebanon, is responsible for this. the u. then. so he needs to use release, believe they will recover their soldiers through military operations, where 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 this rolla has beloved god was facts that showed has below, was behind the assassination of her really has been lucky enough to is really sole chairs and caused the situation that it was fluids. the we stayed the 1st days and is full of what's coming. they have to do so as to leave . so i release pl phone cheese, a test, but not expect that. what would happen? they tell us a x exit this extremely heavy bone bods months. the

since 20 years, i'm living here in the cells and some books off by a route which i course adelphia the so we're really in a kind of get to here. contort by his doings was that was a group 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 sold if the dogs

will kept. so has been law 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 in the, 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 block on land emerge. mobile media is assessing data and the, all of a sudden this, you, we need to long food stores as a well and is a sweet of

a multiple 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 on the the off the $33.00 days of these really bombings as well obtain the ceasefire without releasing the 2 hostages invited 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. my son had boasted

his status as a hero in much of the arab world in his views. his bill is melissa. had humiliated these rails 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 agents 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. the place was chaos. they loved it . i was 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 and 11 on miracle sap, they need the money and loan. behold, what happens is maybe the 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. is not was pleasant evelyn? well, people were able to go somewhere to complains that they had dropped the hose and memorial also familiar was good fellows and all families had lost every thing this law was affiliated compensation

i will receiving along $10000.00 money, most of calls coming from you on the national telecom will you receive aid from iran, y that's common normally light on while other a lack in his will law but has but i also did writes 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 the profits to the what amounts and the clerics every year. let the stuff that 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. that's why the couldn't 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 and 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 fall of 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 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. e. a like dentist on international money laundering circuits and the organization of his beloved co, the network which with, with 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 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 well strong holes in level $911.00, east male called i'm in june 9. and juno was far, far above a guy like check very hard 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 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 unusual. the, so 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 or um, or maybe even directly, cuz 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 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 a lawyer role where and really nice clothes and i decided is going my shorts and a t shirt into the trump tower. it is it obviously like, hey, where's your, it's a piece of it. i think i was doing it on purpose because i didn't want to give you any idea that i thought like,

i'm doing anything special for the guy from my 20 years of experience working with criminals and mafioso so that he appeared to me to be a hard core mafia member and so anytime we caught each other's class, he had this woke of, uh, if i get the chance i'm going to kill you. he's all my boss. no doubt, i said real quiet through most in a meeting and if i so you this is you haven't given us there's, there's absolutely nothing that you've given us that we don't already know. so we went our separate ways and it does appear to both inside and outside the trump tower. their research to sleep taking pictures of us is basically certain that has

the head launch and intelligence investigation on. um asher, myself, basically the cassandra task force or they tried to contract other criminal groups including cartels, so they would pay if these people would kill us or you know, it definitely scared. no, i, i mean i took it as he took it as a compliment and then he also felt like, well, we must really be doing our job. is there so pissed off at us? so like you have to ask the advisor if he was scared. i don't know, i was scared, but who knows? the

when i started project cassandra with my partner jack kelly and are off your list 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 2 i'd for $2000000000.00 hedge fund. where is a partner? this is my side project. you know, so you know, half a day i'm 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. i don't play, you know, writing to 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 drunk trafficking and money laundering boss. see it 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. i come from a family to police and government service and serving 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 too. so originally we were. ringback focused on change tends 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 events, whalen, cocaine. but then as well of 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 we have done as well. and social one over to a meeting in damascus area. and i was offered the assistance that 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 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 voted 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. for example, there's a airline at event as well come the also, some of 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 of the this partnership this now co terrace partnership is emerging between the government event as well under hugo chavez. and the radiance and has the many that we welcome you distinguish leader of a road, people that don't pay a ronnie and people as well. are you the end, the leader of a revolution? the sister of the venezuelan revolution,

not only is law mac revolution today organ as well as celebrating that will be the welcome my brother selma lake. there are many of them. i know. some of the drugs became part of the resistance, narco resistance drafting the jo rhodes, the infidels, parts, their youth spoils their power the we started to see some really higher level ben as well. and officials, persons like draco sammy, who's the former minister of interior. and i believe a former vice president, he's a loving missouri and to send ties back to that part of the world. the directors is one of those really powerful officials who has so much influence in a 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 saving those travel documents. hey, allows massive amounts of money, is to be wondered if there's formal financial institutions the yesterday, the department of treasury's office of foreign asset control known as fact, designated venezuelan national. it's tara canal assignment, as a specially designated narcotics traffic are pursuing for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. the has one of the closer and closer to being involved in the distribution and laundry

. so they became sort of an end and element in the drug draft, 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 prophets, the 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 certain military intelligence mcneil got into his, into his vehicle, uh and the explosive was that needed? killing him instantly on the hill

the make on present the so the man who is the 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 at financial flows. that weekend has been, has power inside living on fonts. the policy of gold has

a history of when quoted going on, a tech class on this rolla decided to take the offensive and loan check who says you will not be able to beat the top by the streets of a root. we believe 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 the car to the phone. so don't put any road longer. so drive through the road books, the false shots that have you'll people shoot classic the post traditionally. how does it go from administer? community is confidential. the

least disposable on that day has blown munitions of interest in black that invaded the capitol exec to move. it was like when was suddenly much storm, right? so the in a box had to move. it was as though his beloved taken off its mask. well that his below was there to defend living on 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 in there to get a new attachment bundled is what is gradually erosion of state power,

who would eventually lead us to the situation that still exists to die with how something us rather holding absolute power of 11. and that 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 was how some natural law behind the real decision maker was telling me that and a sofa people, in my opinion, this was an attempt to, to,

to achieve their goal of making a living on or to hear the proven silver on it and when they get it on the, the that has been building up over the years about the system. so you can go here to a supermarket controlled by his bottle, where you find it waiting in po ducks. the, the hospital under the control office bottle, the banks under the control office, but no i mean, as long as long term strategy, the

need to be on. so this strategy draws upon a historical fantasy nor a re establishing the former persian empire all the way to the mediterranean sea level. since the con, the thanks to with ron's unwavering support, has below had considerable control of the 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 large 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 the 2070 start to see these used car lot started in march by 2008. they're full of cars like 304-0000 cars. a week are going through these cars we didn't really understand. i mean, nothing wrong with important cause 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 ways living in building. he was one of the main guys that established working with almond 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 back at silva 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 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 the landlord, money loan drinking? are they talking about? we have neither bank accounts nor trading companies, a assad, et cetera, individuals who run businesses of the day, you too are shield and some of them in a be engaged in illicit activities. but what does that have to do with on own own much of the mobile we estimated about $200000000.00 a month was being generated from this game. that's all over to the map, 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. and you know, way 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 start to see or 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 11 east 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,

and that me and milan. and what was the relationship between lebanese canadian bank and as we later learned that in effect, as blood had about a 28 percent ownership of lebanese canadian for us, it was the smoking gun, the because it backed up all the analysis. and the other evidence we've been gathering labinata the we're old fashioned, we carry on money and suitcases. and it's only because we have cost up 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 wanted to bank from that 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 them. ready 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 the organization. after several years of obstruction, the inquiry interrupt the career he's 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 t l is the 1st international, empty 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 from lebanon is now in session, for the also to be now shall put out of the bank at 2 val $56.00, and we have with us why the israel in 2010, i joined the special tribunal for 11 on known as the s t l which i came to investigate the assassination of pro fee cutty and a group of related crime who next the guest pass. go tell me it is. it was a sensitive investigation because we were working abroad in a difficult tense environment and we traveled in ahmed congress will to day with lots of checkpoints. while we lived in a dotted residence, a every precaution was taken because the investigators were talking to. so it says i'm the

there, it'll just go ahead already being lebanese investigations which provided the s t l with a great deal of information create is especially the investigation led by a young lebanese police officer. we saw him, i. e, some would cost him his line concerning the matter what that was on my ead regularly met with international investigators to share what he done, covered the name you said i told him that one's a lot when he was returning from one of these meetings there under his car was pulling up the pull, they killed him. some of them

a couple of the cause of the lot is responsible. without a doubt, they threaten my son twice and told him, stop harassing us unless the money 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 of fi 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 ahead of the way they were out of the crime scene that the of the assassination, the national not the. yeah, i didn't that we can see the all these evidence to be purely circumstantial law. why the guy that it's based on telephone data that isn't reliable with the i'm in

my we also believe that the communication networks, when 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 very. you cannot fake this evidence. and if any lebanese say, oh, they made this that the of c i a did, they're stupid. they're liar, super liars, the the indictment charges each of the 4 accused. that's mr. sally in general. i ash missed the most of the, i mean battery dean. mr. was saying, son on you see, mister, i saw her son suffer with full crimes country to live in these

low. we've been decided to proceed to trial to send you your money yet. but if i were amy was relieved, they can just issue a warrant. i don't think that we would allow them to arrest even one of our fighters both these under the mistaken we would drop off the hand of any one who dares not touch one of our fighters. c the was a warning to the lebanese state in journalists don't come after us for her weary cars will kill you. you i tell you good enough for all his office is not going to dorsey 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 that international justice, international law and international in the restaurant is to mean 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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