should tend to shake tomorrow join us and register now for the d. w global media for in 2020 for the the soonest. for 100, the syrians has been demonstrating against the regime of president bashar allah saw their protests show, no signs of easing,

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 you're funny cuz i'm not that was panic in damascus for shara alissa you no longer there to leave. his house is still sick, people were coming from a suburb spot from the north and south of the country. so has an astronomer who was instructed to intervene unless our law differed. you know, the national food, at least we allied with syria, has been a, is a syrian allies. iran is the syrian ally that can so of course a mom at least come on a decision and gave us the strength to do the right thing. and i'm a law, i'm instead of charlotte, 1st of all, so happy about it. but when the message comes from the office supreme leader,

that's 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 it 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. we'll say that the group the list of the 3000 soldiers became 5, then 6000. the is completely a new his ball are because it's

a regular army with surface to air missiles and units a 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 they had the conflict and syria had to have the money. the a tons of cocaine was have 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

has the law as not resisting israel? it's just the butchering fellow muslims. suddenly it's 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 lebanon's 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. it is, oh uh, 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, i'm 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 wouldn't let us and the security situations get up and make some phone calls to the office also. so i appreciate the time. okay, so i'm gonna us investigators gave me a phone number on what else they said it belonged to the courier who collected the money could it could also available the the so i'm really, i think within 24 hours they identified that phone as belonging to the home and they're all dean let me know it is it can take up to a local official there that mohammed, new or dean had his officers and the favorites stock exchange to don't assist about

take extra cash. he certainly wasn't in hiding. he was well respected and stuffed you here's 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 transcript . so it was all about money, an issue he was planning to connect in paris, a 1000000 euros a week. the the correct so the hand of us were fast assault. people passed banks 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 with samuel the to so the flashy that is the hand of us. what happened in an underground parking garage or the restaurant, or even on the street looks good and then was all participants was the ones that comp pulled up on the show as a lease a right next to one of the agents. and the money change time was on each $1.00, if you, if you want the . yeah, there was also buying sell watches is one of new or deans men would find luxury

watches and pay in cash. you know, that kind of, he's spent over 13000000 euros and a yes and what we're talking road. excellent. i'll take filipe or the map 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 let them know they don't cost. they used import export companies like spo. it'll look perfectly legal center the, the, she was a guy who was trusted to move very large amounts of money and oversee couriers who were carrying back money. sometimes just in samsung lights on, you know, planes find out she all the golf. back to baby room. you know, air france as series satellites of millions of dollars and the, you know,

couple of $1000000.00 in each stamps that i gosh gas that it wasn't 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. i know dad is less than will tell you what i'm what uh, from what i saw at the time. it didn't seem like has the boss. yeah. these people, but especially religious, know they were more likely hanging out in piracies golden triangle drinking, aged whiskey in the plaza, alternate bomb that's going to months, cause that's what i saw. that's because of what the france appears in some ways to be their command and control center. further activities interested bureau well, french police were uncovering mohammad nor a deans network project. cassandra's american agents were following the trail of

loaded money to live in on and beyond. that trail led them to traffic is in eastern europe. the form and socialist republics were wash 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? so i said, i go, have i ever heard of the i'll go ahead. yeah. the test. the guy's really, really significant. he's moving weapons for iran and has well 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 with our form which can portray themselves as members of the fox in columbia that needed weapons to kill americans. and of course, always swayed and whose conspirators were looking to get cocaine also. so we had a k k for weapons feel, 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 to columbia and terrorist and traffic drugs to alief i, it's lawyer says he's gonna buy it works for the lebanese secret service will if we get this guy to the states, then he's going to be maybe our main witness to take out his stroke cartel there's only one thing that could get in the way of, of, of his extradition is, is checked. military intelligence gets involved military intelligence is very much under the influence still of,

of russia and put that could cause a major problem in the extradition of via 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 when 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 law fight us. locate a segment totally opened for the soul color to my teeth were falling in celia of the data and the look back. you know how to set this at the with his philosopher healy 3. so using the dad is gonna end up in twice as many were injured and that's it. the solve it. how many, i'm not sure if that live altogether. bailey, 10000 families were expected. if i am the old ones that if i knew that so lots of people bought the, i knew that from the other could be able to done the

keeping an eye that of course the show we pray after we've talked to before. if you'd like, no, no, beautiful food. come my darling sit down. thanks for all your hard work, allegedly fast. i know what it is in

a minute. i versus i had 3 girls. so that's why i was very happy about that a pen b g. but i also wanted to have a boy or 2 again because it would make me happy to be able to send them to g. hi, tony behaved and imagine man is here at the about the soda. when my son sent me these pictures and i suddenly sensed that i'd never see him again. i spent the extra from him. so how do i need additional sort of how that all i'd 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 simply but not so fast. it can have it been met. i wish you'd waited a while longer. the other thing is the, the glory to you, my son, and you're braver than i am, the other side of the part of the mazda to playing over his sons. i mean, i'm 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 son's funeral was the celebration. i wasn't cider, i'm up there with that. then you maybe today, i'm a little sad, but back then i wasn't 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. well, numbers done, how many are in each die? not when are they getting return? not much. they come back to their bankrupt academy bankrupt banking system. the reports explodes. i mean, it's like dante is gates of house. you know, but we can go further down the cycle. you know we, there's more gates so we can approach here in the future. the worries syria profoundly change the way many lebanese people sort of hezbollah once

conceded herrera week 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. wyant's happening operation. sounded like something out of the mafia. conversations about drugs, weapons, and money. the minority important mohammad new or dean had plans to come to france us and we were waiting for him with both kind of also uh 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 germany is rule in italy and elsewhere. i mean to a real county, they denied everything or eat up organizations who said he hadn't collected or roland admonished. most of the simple do, though not to things he couldn't in the high for apply to play down his own role in the whole central florida. we found out that the, the cocaine proceeds, that 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 the syria facing the us to he is of investigation the agents of projects, cassandra had finally reached that goal. 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 we'd hear things like, oh, they're called the financial unit. they're called 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. what's going on here? how do you connect all these dots? you know, it's 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 we've mapped out who know where those companies are. they're 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 that's why we owned a launch construction company you'll 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 who's the guy who's 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 it's basically has bought a royalty of dollar sappy. i'll be has a brother who's the executive director has and there's room is that he would be a success that finance wrong. the once you get to their level, you're above, dana has blown me. i know that sounds strange because people who really see where's their membership card and like they don't need a membership, you know, when they someone sees their face. so like, come right on it. and, you know, 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 the

run over a deal to reign in the atlantic republics nuclear program. and iran was his bill as long time baccha philosophically project. cassandra became a problem. our actions became a problem lots of work to even continue the uranium started to complain about talks. i've heard this from people are that they complain. they said he's the people are past, she control them, the dates they're out of control. that's 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 that decades an 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. the rock obama signed the nuclear agreements with the run. move launch li, welcomed by the international community. with the income. the deal bally dry, the rainy and president hoss on real honey began a triumphant tour of europe, including a stop in france, the cost of the duty war if the 1980s. this was the celebration of the return of economic diplomacy,

which would be the prison today. the president brought me because empower setup was it. this has been a 17 years tips underwriting and president, a visit don't fraud, june. the tip of a new issue. of course the same day, special agent jack kelly also landed in paris to monk, the dismantling of mohammed, newer dean's money laundering network. anesthesia and sarah, many had been organized with french police headquarters. the d. e a was about to reveal the existence of the secret business, the thing as components within hezbollah. it was going to be what i really thought was a fitting end to cassandra. the top french law enforcement official was going to give us a champagne toast as a success for this, this incredible operation. cedar under project cassandra. so i'm there for that.

and then um, i'm kind of looking at the judge in the prosecutors in the cops and it's like, what's going on there? mention yeah, we think the, the press conference definitely was cancelled. but and the press release was postponed in new brands in iran side by side or companies like yearbook fuse you on c. m, we signed contracts worth tens of billions of dollars. costs with senior been around $30.00 contracts were signed today with a value of $15000000.00 euro central, including deals with essence, the total social, an air body. plenty of reasons for french business leader has to applaud the rainy and president noise. i'm watching it on tv at the bar of the truck. is there a hotel and are getting these calls and text messages saying yeah,

everything's cancel the horrible day. i just, i couldn't believe it the right at the same time i'm getting information that either all, if i, i'd had been released from the czech republic to love it on lisa. yeah, it was one to for the us are serious. right. so this afternoon, he was released return to 11 on the high side. yeah. you went back to 11. we never got them in america. the us

government system fail. there was no engaged try to explain. or, i know what my investigative gut feeling is telling me. he was a member of hezbollah and they were in the middle of randy, that's my opinion. i don't have the smoking guns, but i have an opinion. i've been doing this a long time. i think the entire project, cassandra scared many people around the world. it has been sacrifice for pompei, the village of the guys when i met asher. and oh wait, he told me really from the beginning of jack. i want to tell you right now alternately, i can guarantee you that somewhere along the way, the white house,

whoever's white house it is, is going to shut us down. because if we get to where i think we're going to get, it's going to be too much for some people. and that's exactly what happened to me and his prediction was true. so, you know, i told jack higher up, you go, the more people know the more they're going to want to stop. right when we are in the jobs that victory victory with this national tax. ringback and i also knew it right at the same time that i just been transferred via a memo out of special operations division off of projects on or to a desk job and headquarters. so i decided to go to my favorite cafe in a drink, red wine, hezbollah had one day's project, cassandra was buried,

sacrificed in the name of rail polity to the united states. the hope of peace with the wrong was more important than dismantling the heat instructions within hezbollah. cassandra was far as greek mythology, is that she was warning leaders of, of impending catastrophes and disasters in her warnings would always get ignored and then the disasters and capacities would eventually happen. so cassandra was always right, but nobody paid attention to her and they would dismiss or, and they were skeptical was project cassandra, the last opportunity to put an end to his bullets seeming impunity. then came august 4th 2020 of the

the massive explosion by roots poured schultz, the lebanese capital. the, in the aftermath of the disaster citizens turned beginnings, their leaders, and especially against the old powerful secretary general of hezbollah. how son, through all of the, the lebanese people demanded truth and justice to see what really happened. how code $2750.00 tons of ammonium nitrate to be stored in a building and supports it a little bit to monique those the same substance caused an explosion in a factory and the printer to be able to live in 2001 as it that did to lose all

them, you know, mean was that which criminal brought the ammonium nitrate there? who store does that report? who hit me and the, this olga was controlled by this bullet. this everybody knows as well as the output is controlled by his phone. so we knew hezbollah has secret access to the for what's known as bottom as door to bypass controls. what kind of hezbollah is more powerful than the lebanese government? and nobody dares to take them on the, or the thought behind this negligence. yeah, it's a big crime that nobody wants to expose the, for the, for the, the, with the

explosion. 2, nearly 220 people and left more than 6000 inches by root was left scott and yet, despite the extent of the disaster attempts to find out who was responsible, only lead to more questions. no fish, i story is the short that sent that there is a ship that came from georgia to live on on it was supposed to carry on from was on be but it couldn't make it so they did remove the ammonium nitrate and they kept it in the warehouse this is the story, the officer story, the only when i said is usually uh, used either as a 50 license or as an explosive,

you know, a shipment that came to live and then it was community even on the back that it was the high density, it was written on the back. so it was meant to be used as an explosive, the . so this shipment state and the port for 7 years. unfortunately it's name if anybody know about it, but nobody took any action. what i discovered you anyway investigation, search the for the stuff auto was the company that in the beginning appeared to be the owner of the ammonium nitrate to this company is kind of a shuttle company,

which means it's a company with you don't know that even on a later on i discovered that are the meetings between somebody will and see again, business man with a level 40 and a month 40 his brother until his house, one no louder side of his head bottle. why don't you don't know silver ro, we've never heard of it before this. let me get out. we didn't even know that it had the same address as our company. yeah. them divided body feet. yeah. i know that i have nothing whatsoever to do with this matter. there's nothing for me to worry about. the shut off of hello. george has one. he met 7 at a time to see a president and then the name i told it has 7 companies and secretaries in syria

and in the shop. and those 2 companies, it's not easy to each that live it with those guys. read in the business and in the way, without being close to those in by what was it in syria or the induction was probably this shipment was spent to in each in one way or another, syria in the time when the war was at the it speak the,

the studies done by the s b. i actually said that according to the calculations they had done what they exploded in the 4th of beta, which was somewhere between 500 to 700 tons of ammonium nitrate, the double dummy safe, all 2700 times. it exploded on july. the entire capital would have been raised to the ground, all who had been using those thousands of tons c, who took the material out of my route. so of live in a diesel dueli ball. where do you think it was a city that has a lot, syria and has blah i don't want to get involved in anything. politically. i handed 4 possible things. okay. i was not good at least didn't know.

well, i mean we're joined by political analysts last month. i mean i wouldn't be surprised seeing also hinted the main suspects are those who store the ammonium nitrate? any bedroom? yeah. more cushion. i'm wondering if you might be able yeah. say that the buttons, the suspects are the ones who control everything. well law, in other words, the hezbollah melisha melisha. you just have to look at what it was used phone with us. yeah, i knew i had been the one where i look mon made is all responsible for transporting the ammonium. the card to see how the to yes, you will split things a positive 2 guys. i know we are today. everybody is saying that in general we look mon was the 1st to say it's vitale, national. and then the most, what we have here is a puzzle where all the pieces have been the quote together. so you know who are your own, but not it. say you then man, so what i've done what i can do

both of it that's enough. keep on the 6 months after the b reports explosion is another drama shop 11 on a well known commentator look mentally. and i think it was find dead and southern limpid. don't know about it on i haven't been shot 6 times in the head. why was he killed 0 commentary? important message was being sent to the hookup. so to all eyes are on the hezbollah concord which controls southern 11 on your keyboard saline was, you know, i did you, do you know how language skills? yes, but i cannot. yes. the worst case by 6 shots. it seems that have been by profession the the, the upgrade to say the least.

i can save it as time, but sure is this is this, he's just gone traveling with the time. i want justice and i need to know who did it planned it and who gets the all re support explosion ends the execution of look month. that is something which is bolt con. no, you cannot go back to normal life. you cannot go back and let's the political game when know we need for the most, we need accountability the we may never know the truth behind the buy route for the explosion. when to

lebanese judge is trying to investigate the massa. they faced threats and their inquiries were holstad and despite the demonstrations by the liberties people, his bullet has opposed any international investigation. with the news, people will be able to know that completed 2 adults don't even try it, it'll never happen. you'll be long in the grave for centuries from now, and there will not be an answer to the heres below to not simultaneously be an army fighting against israel,

a ruthless militia targeting civilians in syria and or respectable political party and 11 on the motion to boot itself into thinking it's stronger than it actually is . the hezbollah has built up and giving you most the system of care are losing the look room, put it well, so long as has bullet continues to engage and international terrorism acts of assassination in 11 on illicit financial activity, undermining the stability of the lebanese financial system. so long as i was born in gauges and all those activities, it is an outlaw, actor, needs to be treated as such and yet the group looks sent to continue acting with impunity. 40 years

ago his bill is, am, was to impose sharia or islamic lou in lab and on instead it ended up creating a state within a state, a kind of hezbollah land that's more powerful than the government and whose actions have very real consequences for the lebanese people, the, we are living here in the zip on, on an occasional off impunity. you're kind of kids, you can commit to muscle, goes to kind of commit crimes who can do whatever you want in the end. nothing is something what happened to check re harp. he said to jeff, i know he was in south america, and i think he might have went back to lebanon, but i'm not sure. a man juma. he's never been caught so easily and he's in lebanon. i'm sheree,

travels to other places. we just don't hear about it. i think a ruby, like roby. i don't think i never arrested. not jail. at least. i feel bad because certainly not in jail. at the bottom to bother the not in jail. assessed it in. never indicted. never captured, never rested. still that has one bass or 2 to run. as far as i know, the,

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