and the phone rings and it's picked up, and it's mustafa zein. and i explained what i'm doing, but i'm trying to write a biography of robert ames. and the first question mustafa zein has is how did you get this number? [laughter] only certain people have this number. and i explained, welcome i can't tell you who gave me this number but it's a mutual friend. and so he then said well, i've been waiting for 30 years for you to call. he gave me his e-mail, and for the next week we e-mailed each other furiously back and forth, and he had lots of stories. he was eager to tell. a few months later i flew out to the middle east, went to amman, and i spent eight days, 10 hours a day listening to mustafa. it was like i sort of like to think of it as a debriefing in an intelligent fashion. i took notes. i didn't record it because i thought that would make him nervous. but i filled notebook after notebook. and he turned out to be one of those great sources, because he was then 71, but he had a great memory and he was a good storyteller. at times such a good s

anyway, after seeing mustafa zein in amman, i didn't have to spend about 10 days, two weeks in israel trying to track down

mustafa for the past six months. mr. mustafa, as you may have guessed is her sugar daddy. and the basis of their relationship is mr. mustafa t e takes responsibility for giving her money and gifts in exchange for whatever he wants. you see, he deictates what she gets and he dictates what he wants and she simply obeys. now the weirdest thing about their relation is that mr. mustafa has a lot of experience in business and economics and markets and could very, very easily empower her to be a business person just like him. but instead, he keeps her on this sort of leash giving her just enough to keep her happy but never enough to prevent her from running back to him. i believe that there's a similar d dynamic between the west and africa. every year there are policies and clinical protocols and best practices, almost copy and pasted directly and awkwardly into africa. they're often far too expensive, which makes them unsustainable and inappropriate. and there's very, very little thought given to the concept of reverse innovation. this is the ability of african prese entrepreneu

my name is mustafa, i was recently approached by the fib to be an informant for them. >> mustafa hasilavi discovered he was on the fbi watch list when he took his car in, and found a device. >> they felt this was going to stay under my car for a long time. >> came out of there. and since this is the transmitter, i didn't want to put them back in. >> until a recent federal court ruling, the fbi could place tracking devices on a vehicle without receiving a warrant. >> you believed it was a tracking device from the fbi? >> do i. i took it apart, it's got an -- i do. i took it apart, it's got an antenna, and some tracking device from verizon, it traction where you are and is constantly sending information back to the fbi. >> he took the device to the lawyer. nothing happened immediately. a couple of years later, fbi agents knocked on his door. he didn't open it. >> i was told they were interested in speaking to me. 50% of it was they had specific questions for me, and the other 50% was, they were interested in relationship-building. i spoke to my lawyer about what relationship-building mea

my name is mustafa, i was recently approached by the fib to be an informant for them. >> mustafa hasili discovered he was on the fbi watch list when he took his car in, and found a device. >> they felt this was going to stay under my car for a long time. >> came out of there. and since this is the transmitter, i didn't want to put them back in. >> until a recent federal court ruling, the fbi could place tracking devices on a vehicle without receiving a warrant. >> you believed it was a tracking device from the fbi? >> do i. i took it apart, it's got an -- i do. i took it apart, it's got an antenna, and some tracking device from verizon, it traction where you are and is constantly sending information back to the fbi. >> he took the device to the lawyer. nothing happened immediately. a couple of years later, fbi agents knocked on his door. he didn't open it. >> i was told they were interested in speaking to me. 50% of it was they had specific questions for me, and the other 50% was, they were interested in relationship-building. i spoke to my lawyer about what relationship-building meant

. >> moaz mustafa is the executive director of the syrian emergency task force in washington, d.c. he says isis literally formed in the void made by the pullout of u.s. troops and the retreating iraqi army. that kind of self-financing mob, he says, can't be destroyed from air strikes. you need to take back the territory and restore order. fighters willing to do that are frustrated that the u.s. so far won't help them. >> it's a white house decision. >> it is a whout decision. and it also has been. and i think the white house is slowly moving in the right direction. i can tell you that the policy that the white house has right now, if it had this policy three years ago there would have never been an isis republic. we would have gotten rid of assad. >> reporter: u.s. coalition air strikes have now begun targeting isis locations, attacking the oil facilities and even grain silos. but as long as isis controls any ground where civilians can be taxed, extorted and robbed, isis will remain self-financing. drew griffin, cnn. >> now, we will have much more on the fight against isis later th