it's like one-third of hesla's case so what is it that takes us up to the million and to the size that has turned hezbollah into a threat we care about into a force that has become agenda setting in the region? well, that is a layer that was in karnei did to me on a personal level by a man i met towards the end of the war. he was introduced to me because i was looking still for a translator willing to go to these far-flung places getting bombed and the end of the war nobody wanted to do it. finally someone said i know a guy come he doesn't know anything about journalism, but he will do whatever you want. so i'm introduced to him, he comes to meet me and just starts rattling off to me in this heavy southern accent and i said where do you learn that english? he said you really want to know, man? i said yes, i do, and he sort of looked at me and said well, i used to be a drug dealer in atlanta. [laughter] he proceeds to tell me with great pleasure in the story of the decade or so he spent in atlanta he describes himself as a middleman, he drew on the lebanese connections to find suppliers