This is a video and audio production 5 d, w, i hope video will tune in the the, the so you know, everyone in the, they route that they felt they were being passed and they told me to eclipse. I thought that it was another foaming to assassinate me, go to the by the, by the, i dont know, we wont tell you side. It was if we were walking into how big youre behind them, that i mean the roads up blocks go to the hospital on foot. That it was a zip. The city had been laid into a coughing and as never a much tremendous disc. The delete bustle of less than explosion, ship limits, capitals, they lead more than 100. 00 people have died for and full size of the injured would have cause its still not clear in the seems of volume calls the explosion of civil 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate sold at the port, 2750. 00 tons of money of an entree. Only hezbollah could unload Ammonium Nitrate to the court. The end as a signal signal opens up the by routes. Polk without as polos. Knowledge such 6 of us. So this nitrate belongs to hezbollah has brought it there and enjoyed it there for 6 years. Some of his life today, i want to offer a categorical and that absolute horrible, and definitive denial. And we have nothing at the port, but most of the, of the hezbollah is a political party. It is a social movement. It is also a massive militia, larger, better armed, better trained at the moment, he is armed forces. This is an International Terrace organization. The has made out pay to look like the mine or the re determined dorm project that has below was operating like a global drug product. We do them as one of the most significant and Transnational Criminal Organizations slash carts, house last mafia that we had and ever come across the bowl is dangerous, because bo, as big as bowl is not 10 feet tall. The, the shadow of hezbollah hangs over the explosion. That they roots poured any investigation to seem the impossible. Its is this the easily missed organization has absolute impunity. For 40 years, its members have infiltrated lebanese politics and defined justice, vc and most of them grew dreams of establishing religious lou sharea like in iran. And yet in the mid to thousands, several agents from the d. E a, the Us Drug Enforcement Administration tried in secret to bring down hezbollah. Their investigation took them to full continents, revealing the hidden face of his bella, arabic, full policy of gold. The full found during their operations code name was cassandra named up to the figuring greek mythology, who for so misfortune, but was ignored. The investigation began in the United States in the off the mass of the attack on the world trade center. The tom, a former agent with the Drug Enforcement administration known as the d. E. A in the United States. I worked in the da for 28 years. The drug and fortunately ministration was formed to be the lead agency in america to go after the Drug Trafficking organizations, the im from new york, obviously. So the devastation of 911. 00. My brother was in the United States air force. He went to afghanistan to fight for the country it and he came back in a body bag because his helicopter crashed on Operation Enduring freedom. So im very passionate about National Security and public safety. So i was actually giving it a golden opportunity to run the d, a special operations division, post 911. 00, the jack kelly. Is it the agent . We recruited him to work at the special operations division. When he 1st got there, he was working in the latin america section, which was focusing on colombia, so he became the leader of the team. So im a supervisor now at special operations division. The idea is the follow the money or so us and then under cover fashion is posing as criminals that know how to warn or money. And we would do that for the cartel. And now were to afford us to infiltrate cartels to the highest level because were doing what their boss is considered. The most important thing. Getting the money back into their hands from the drugs that were sold in places like the bronx, new york, all does everything. Okay. Have you finalize the sale precinct . Yes, and i know of course the thank god great richard. The during the wire tap investigations in columbia that we, we intercepting a lot of arabic conversations. That was something new to me as the head of the special operations division. Like i didnt really understand it and i had to learn over the years like what was going on. A hello. Hello, but listen, i need a favor is very unfortunately just the just tell me what is to show, but they need to borrow 20000 dollars like this for them really just the you back tomorrow and let me know. Yes, of course. I know the information were receiving is that as well as organization, this has made a presence in latin america, specifically to be involved in good cocaine trade and cocaine proceed. Money order. One of the top lieutenants is a guys that speaks arabic, and his name is taliban. They call and talbot, because they call every hour of guy down there, taliban after 911. 00. We do some searches, some quick searches in different databases and we find out that his name is jeffery har. Jeffery hard was no 2 people the United States government, the check required was tied directly to iran has was impossible terrorist attacks the so what happens is we introduce under cover agents. One of the under covers is, is so, because hes of lebanese descent, speaks arabic literally, and is actually going to me check read in columbus the, to check and tells the undercover i move multi ton loads of cocaine to port ok. A box in jordan and then it gets moved through syria to 11 on the to as well. I imagine then youre youre must be pretty close to hezbollah. If youre going to be moving co came through siri, 11, a check. The heart just smiles widely and nods. His head, yes. Yes i am working with has for so check your horses through the under cover. We have a project for you. We have 20000000. 00 that needs to be on. Can you do that for us . The under cover. So certainly we can do that for you are on the coverage and its such a good job. Convincing them that he was this real bad guy. They offered him the contract to pick up 20000000. 00, which he did. 20000000 is a lot of money. Im not aware of too many, you know, undercover agents picking up 20000000. 00 from back the now that the undercover appeared to be a criminal superstars in the mind of betty, he perhaps could run the operations in the middle east. So basically this, the under cover was going to become the medi lieutenant in charge of middle east cocaine traffic and money order to we have found this incredible new, definitive tie between columbia and cocaine trafficking, specifically out of many to islamic extremist terrace organization that killed more americans than anybody before . 911. So this was extraordinary. It was a novel idea, but i think to other people in the United States government is seen fanciful because they never heard of anything like this. And basically the party line was that hezbollah was too religious to be involved in drug track. The, now the on the why the american saying this, this, what do they have against has been a and how all for us drugs, hard on the religion, forbid, science from buying and dealing drugs. When the, as most as that, thatd be the key for the data. So how could we traffic drugs when we prohibit them . And i said, oh, its not true. Let me tell you a secret. So yeah, so that 2 years ago we decided we wouldnt take part in any trade at all. No, no, no, bank, no smaller fee. I. Yeah, im a dish. Im not even in partnership with designed, the National Recycling must be causing any business thought and waste issues with corruption amenities and you have to make concessions to my 2nd fee and well set one up laterally. The pointers will know what the americans claim that hezbollah is involved in corruption and Money Laundering. They want to tanya show and reputation and convince the people south of the on the good side. I mean, im, that, that fighting terrorism was on corruptions that i had the in office, the whole, these weapons, these rifles, the spears, and the blood of motors, show the entire world. That after all these decades, the path of despair has come to an end. The way in the world is Hezbollah Operating is terry know when were a Resistance Movement the they dont want us to resist hezbollah resist. Hezbollah is honest, History Speaks for itself is out of that theres a lot of the of the people that fights them in favor just become indiscriminately this. Dont say its no longer clear whos fighting, who is the search for his beloved drunk traffic has lifted the agents to dig into the can you all take violent history of living on the birthplace of the policy of god . In 1975 civil war broke housing by route. The war was mainly forth between the various religious and cultural communities. Christians sunni muslims, shia muslims, drews and palestinians. The in june 1980 to another party during the war. These riley army, which invaded lebanon to find the palestinians, the fighting threats and stability in the middle east. French and us soldiers arrived, hoping to restore peace. They became the target of a vin, unknown organization which had swollen. So wed let the known as any foreign presence the so called duty war began as im the cause of the law senate. And for this, i mean, you know, with many in 1982 when has but i was phoned, i was one of the founders. We oppose the western presents and let them know what i mean. And the, we have always wanted them to leave the country. And stop influencing the situation and what happened on the occlusal mon look, none will allow us to the luck. I live not a love to be of the router has once again been struck by a terrible attack on this time the americans with a target in their own embassy, each believed about 40 and people were killed on it. And then the chief, you should be small, soul building, suddenly collapse. It was the u. S. Embassy as a 1st major confrontation between has prolonged the american sold for 97. The 2nd time talking to the Multinational Forces composed primarily of americans. Its also a french british, an attorney in the us now tell you the 2000 pounds cmt was observed, the coming at a high rate of speed from the south of the building to the gate and through the guard and then detonated inside the printer down there about the lake. This was the 1st suicide, foaming in lebanon. Huffman looking there was nothing like it before it had us in our region. Nothing. Our country has beloved, brought this terrorist method onto liberty. So hell have no, i mean, getting it. Ill be with, let me no, mary saw the following orders issued by the leader of his palazzo. Im forced to carry off a suicide. Oh my god, and make me of tremble beneath the feet of our enemies the United States and is right. How many ago was that all the us to have the monitors without a doubt, the biggest secret of 5 success the im not causing any fight. Yes. That your opponent is trying to kill you and to take your like a while. You on the, he had plenty of losing your life is not, not important to you either. An if achieving your goal is what matters. Most of all that had the effect your opponent, lucys, or power over you have sarah lydia stuff. The new site that i like for you a suicide bombing is, is, is a message is we will stop at nothing. We are smarter than you. You are a big bureaucracy and we can beat you. So france in, in the United States or on the same boat at this point. You know, were trying to figure out what is happening and 11 on we want to know the names of our enemy. I went up picture while i know where they are and how we get to. And once we find them, we have delta force, which i work with very closely with go kill those my orders. War for an intelligence officer. Really. It gets your adrenalin going this is in 1980 to 1983. I was on the border with lebanon, and that was a real fascination because we were a war. The youre seeing the is really just come down the back call. Youre driving down the road and to new jersey is showing above you. The navy farms there is biggest volkswagens. So that was my entre into the middle east. The, his ball a as a name did not exist in 82. They bring all the disparate to groups, she a groups together and created a unified resistance. The one i know we did not want the occupier to know who fine to as well as the fact that we took advantage of that period to organize our samples to get that well. After that we carried down to operations in the name of the is low, make resistance of the problem and its let me, yeah, let me. Thatd be 2nd us. It wasnt until 1995 that we officially announced the existence of has belong, the middle of sorts. I 6, you mean just you want to live in the issue . I can population is because determines puts an end 31300 years of humiliation. Leave it in the wake of the right hand revolution, the lebanese muslim extremists found within the political, the policy has blocked the been a deal of the policy is gone. For did you just pull the code . These fanatics is clear, they say, well, the soldiers evolved on the sims if they were 5, and we went to the stomach with hopefully before we will make live and u. V is not the remember, nice a to is just not quite 3 years after the running revolution and for the running revolution, one key pillar was the export of the revolution, the, the uranium came lab and on and said, look, we will help you if you help yourselves and put a fighting group together. You people know how to shoot guns, you know how to blow stuff up. We will give you the money. We will not interfere. You know how to do it, go do it. The. C c only p d things will already spot everything has block become a major plan with the new method of losing cost or truck phones driven by suicide on most of the, of what you, we can meal pg having to go to the c l street only then we asked another phase 5, which was hostage taking the good morning everyone. Its the 3rd hijacking this week and were. Busy going by route and this time the plane and most of the passengers are from the United States, the w way, 5847 was on route from athens jerome this morning when it was hijacked by suspecting she, i muslims, and force defied of a roof. They are beating the beating the standing in front of the p. W a flight 847, only a few feet from a conch that i can see. Captain john test right next to one of the gun money in the carpet on your cell. The. So what is happening to you and whats happening to you now . Not very much is happening to us now. Speak english. Can you communicate with them . Sometimes better than others. It depends on whos on board. Many people in america were calling for some kind of rescue operation or i think that wed all be dead man if they did, because were continually surrounded by many, many guards and whether or not see my model, the key is the man inside the car picked up the t w y flying to p w a was the big point. Now your husband was only tourist activities. He was not a particularly religious person. At 1st he served as a body guard, but went on to become the head of his ball as terrorist operations. In part by being involved in almost everything from the beginning. So heres a guy who was on the kill list of the most sides of the c i a for many years, the movie it was in the airplane, we found his fingerprint, but that was not move me in the window. Didnt ever do that, never show his face in public. Never, never, never, never. He never showed himself to the hostages cuz he knew one day to be released and he didnt want to be identified. He was ghost and he knew how to remain a ghost. I plan to kill him. A kind of was that saturday, his entire Group Operations in secret and we didnt know anything about them. Probably they were smaller numbers the carried. Id significant a title just kind of falls into the the, the visible lim vehicle that the a on has belong, had nothing to do with the kidnappings and attacks. What am marines and french kyra troop as well up in madisons, when in mobile unit 5, ive seen the g. I seem happy to leave lebanese soil and to the board, the American Warships patrolling off the coast to the, the radiance, oversaw the most potent as a symmetrical military force in modern history are ever dont forget the french and the americans were run out by a guy who had about 20 people in history, theres nothing to compare it with he might move near and his beloved had won the americans in french, less living on cumulative and scanned by ongoing suicide bombings and hostage taking. But the dusky war of the 1980s had left its mach washington and eventually designated hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization. And the mug mcneal became a mocked man in the mid to thousands. When the agents of the d. E. A launched projects, cassandra, they thought they could avenge those killed in by roots and eliminate the old enemy. Fema mcneil, the they were planning the infiltration of hezbollah as trafficking woods in jordan, the but the agents from the c i, a, the Central Intelligence agency of the United States would happy to see these cowboys encroaching on their domain, the jordanian Anti Narcotics police. Go up on intercepts of numbers identified in jordan link to check the heart. And what happened was that there was going to be a big meeting in amman, jordan, and at that meeting directory har boys told to introduce the d. E. A under cover to an extremely significant member or members of has so youre telling me this guy can be fully trusting. Theres no the, theres nothing to worry about. I thought, oh, is important. We know where hes from, you know, no, hes not a risk. Dont worry of the name of because of the all right. We were hearing and we believe for various reasons that hard was under the guidance and protection of bug near the or under a time crunch. Now, because the under cover is obviously cant move cocaine with has more and wouldnt be able to longer money for has. So we realize that whatever evidence we gain in this amman jordan meeting might be the last chance the and for day or 2 before the meeting was shut down by members of the us embassy enjoyed. They did not allow the undercover agent to meet with the operatives on the ground, enjoyed and there was no real explanation given which to be honest was very, very annoying and very disturb the, the ad folks in the Intelligence Community that has the use of knowledge on has for pretty much looking down at the d. Yeah. Like how does the da know about has the d a became like a fly in there so the new under cover reached out to check the hard check. The hard wouldnt talk to check the hard wouldnt respond so he is completely blown off. So we lost or under cover infiltration of, of check regard. So the opportunity was, was burn. The not only was the opportunity burn. What are the on the covers life was now in big time danger as the head of the special operations vision that pissed me off the ceiling a, the us Intelligence Agency had capsized project, cassandra organized by the d. A. The anti drug agency, or the rivalry between the 2 agencies was emblematic of washingtons weakness in the face of an enemy that had mutated and matured. By that time, has bella was more than a terrorist faction. It presented itself as a respectable political policy with representatives in the Lebanese Parliament who defended the interests of the lone marginalized she community. The political leda was her son serrano. A cleric trained in iran, in the background, has below, with its military leader ima mcneil continued fighting the war against israel. Cooling itself. The resistance, unlike the western nations who had left living on these railey military, continue to occupy the south of the country so that he will not be as rain is in the west and is to not understand has been a doctrine or its principles. As the law, as the law is based on faith in islam, or what does this plan and this line is based on jihad, and she had the one at the bottom, it has below is stronger than ever. Well, despite all the countries that accuse it of terrorism on the, the, we dont need anyone else. We only want to take bag and i, and deliberate country had a little bit of the c d because what this was has been last called night. Captured the hans and phone of our people for quite a while, even though they were she, i see she 90 percent of the worlds most in population. So not history. The you shes to look at his paula. I mean, whoever side you arent as robin hood, if youre lebanese and youre tired of being humiliated, who do you have . Youve got his ball and thats it. The 2 children, the elderly, every one was out on the streets in some places hezbollah had to say, hey, grandpa slowed down. Have to at least wait until the israelis are gone. Why the, the . Yeah, a lot of the has what she loved then. So his black is yeah, hes will love my husband always looks after you after the bus itself. But monica, who would keep you up the slightest injury there. They always care for the wounded halloween and their families being literally low. And then well assess to show that they take care of everything. Then we do the whole scene. Theres other, please, i beg you for the love of god, my back. A son like that done for his beloved fighting politics, social welfare provision. They are all about creating a culture of resistance of mccollum on the, on a new today where a true popular phone keeping with women and children. Young men hold onto the elderly. Less than, lets say the entire family belongs to hezbollah as well. Not. And if were not an ordinary organization id yet, the, so now i have to say what the site is, the military leader, as well as the political anita, and she had to theres no distinction between the 2 and the so it the non look good because some estrada is an impressive, formidable mind. Hes an exceptional public speaker. Come in, guy loan, good spoken har. Okay. Perfect. So he can talk to the most things, and in a while, you wont, you wont one hour project and we have no choice but to carry it out. And thats where we are followers of a doctrine of our project is to create an a slavic state with this slumber governance. I think a natural as robust appear, incorruptible, trying to create a revolution and is done the best of the maddest summit. Say it has um, but why . If you just see, i got to know his excellent. So you said youd have something to relo personally wrong. At one meeting before 2000, i put my hand on his shoulder. Am not, i have thought the that for that someone took a photo of us to pick of all of us, all the, i dont produce ring game from seed. And this copy of the clear on how this also came from. So you of the, [000 00 00;00] the on the left did he go to the girl used during war . He, mike calling with laurie guys of hezbollah. We used to go to nest ramos place a tips of yet. I remember how we will change cos and drive away from the gallery to noon of a vehicle associated with you. Reset it, but they didnt blindfold. You know, that you didnt really know where you were. The subject was at that level, use the so you know, youre in the show themselves, the policy Security Court to coordinate with this quote. The more a bar sink was located that the why have with us really kill them with a drone cuz i cant find them. He knows about telephones. He knows about drones. He knows all this stuff. He knows how to stay alive. Hes a survivor like some of the same mold, the leak, the flood cliff home before you left for the issue. Sometimes hes very direct, inclusive. Well, sometimes he just touches on some things you should know better than wisdom community. So it could be less something we call to keep it untrue, less. And we also have to say, we just seen a school is going to play city. That the key sits a kind of decor. Well, you dont always reveal the entire truth. The jesse all subjects to spectrum through to see if the 4 didnt get to see him. V as the monkey who would like to evelyn lavender stuff the in the early 2, thousands, the west didnt notice his below, expanding its influence in lebanon at the time. The International Community was focused on a rock. The us had just invited the country and was facing cs resistance from local militias. Many of them were she palmed and financed by iran. What the us didnt know at the time was the lebanese, find his from his beloved had come to help their rocky brothers in the name of shiite solidarity and defiance against a common enemy. The, its started uh with the war in iraq and my involvement as an advisor to wear Us Special Operations command on the ground in iraq against the eightys, which were called explosively form project house f piece. This weapon, the way it was designed, had extraordinary ferocity and an explosive impact. Yeah. Like bonds look very small tube with a copper plate with the old, a huge explosion enough to cut it and m one a one tank almost in half between never seen anyone build to do with any sort of complex process. The it was the signature of weapons. So the fact that it was being used against americans forces told me that as well. I had to be on the ground just below instructors train approximately 20. 00 to 60. 00 rockies at a time, sending them back to iraq, organized into these special groups. Theyre being taught how to use the of these borders rockets. The explosive project was being employed, interact against american forces, was designed by has more and man behind the creation of this weapon was a mazda meet the so i started hearing about the president s man, they called him the president s man because he had worked directly for president bush in the bush white house. I was focusing on the finances and i was aware that a great deal of money involving the p networks, interact with being derived from a cash houses 11. The something sort of remarkable happened. We started to see phone selectors. They were tied to the financing of idea tax interact. There were then, apparently in touch with numbers in south america. The i was like, are they really mean and i need to, they need to call columbia. I said what, what, what, what does this mean . I mean, i think this is very bizarre, but this pattern can happen, the why these people, i touch, what do they talk to . What do they do . And i realize suddenly, are these guys turning to colombian . The sources of narco financing, the funder operations on the cross, the for, i mean, it is a light went on, may have because i was familiar with narcotics trafficking in global Money Laundering for organized crime. The drug money at one level or another was making its way the prophets for making their way into the world around the wow. If we can track this money and we get tied to drugs. And then we were to pursue the drug track and start to take down the drug business. We can start to really put a financial hit around has possibility operating arrived, the by orders were to attack this foggy situation. And then try to tie this into the leadership and the leadership being to mazda the. So i wanted to go after the hash block was developing this world wide capability and generate and billions of dollars. And we had to take action the for them to charge a narcotics trafficking was the greatest gift we could ever be given. Suddenly we had a new way of using lost their not warfare to attack at a terrace organization finances. And when i reached it up the chain at the Us Central Command to general alan and to him the general for trace their way. Hodge. Great idea. What can we, we couldnt dream of Something Better than this because like, we cant fight those guys. Washington regatta has been lives involvement in the death of us soldiers in iraq as a declaration of war and re launched project. Cassandra the d. E. A had free reign to tackle the potty of gold in the name of National Security. They wanted to go after their money when they were after their networks and wanted to take down their finances and wanted to answer their backs they had criminalized themselves. We needed to reveal that so world into their own people, the, [000 00 00;00] the truly right, the road guides know the way around the is strictly scientific truth, some pretty key places. Curiosity is we tried tomorrow today in 30 minutes on d. W. He had hoped he could make it to europe must, didnt work out. Now poppy is back in his home country of gambia, in west africa, trying to set up a business with us of an International Aid organization. But this capital one is not long. 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