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Their only hope is the syrian Civil Defense, a selfappointed allsyrian volunteer force of rescue workers, who call themselves the White Helmets. The air strikes, day and night, obliterate apartments and shatter the nerves. Often, the bombs are not aimed at military targets; theyre not aimed at all just a barrel of shrapnel and t. N. T. , heaved from a helicopter onto any neighborhood the assad dictatorship does not control. Rami jarrah its to terrorize people in this area. Its to tell these people that youre not welcome here, and we want you out. Pelley rami jarrah is a syrian reporter, whos followed the White Helmets from their makeshift beginnings to todays trained force of 3,000 rescue workers. Jarrah they provide some sort of security or safety, or some sort of hope to civilians that live in this area, that even if you are attacked, even if your building comes down, there is someone thats going to come and save you. Pelley you are not alone. Jarrah youre not alone, yes. Pelley this little boy was alone, and nearly invisible, when the White Helmets happened to spot just his hair in the pulverized concrete of his home. Bare hands were in a race with suffocation. Jarrah i think, for them, its luck. Its that. That they dig any rubble that they see to get those people out. They frantically dig through every part of any Apartment Building or anything thats been. Been destroyed to check. Theyre usually there for hours after the attack. Pelley how many hours . Jarrah how many hours . Six, seven hours. Ive seen them operate continuously. Pelley this is that same boy, his face freed. They excavated the ruin, hour by hour. The White Helmets say they have saved 90,000. And, with each, they shout their gratitude to god. Majd khalaf and rady saad have been White Helmets three years. Khalaf said, we feel as if weve brought that person back to life. The joy at that moment is indescribable. Tell me about the hardest rescue youve ever done. There was a woman and her husband, he told us. Only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. We could see her moving her fingers like this, so my colleagues dug her out. And the first thing she asked about was her husband. Theyd been married for ten days. Unfortunately, her husband had been killed. Fingers or, here, the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. The leg led to hips and a torso. Body parts are expected. But then, they uncover a face. More often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. When you uncover one of these faces covered with dust and the eyes open, what is that moment like for you . Rady saad told us, i dont have any feelings, i have a goal. The goal is to save the most people in the least amount of time. But when i go home, ive spent nights crying, really crying. Day after day, building after building, hour after hour, victim after victim, how do you keep going . There are a lot of people who need our help, he said. Theres a 50 chance in every operation that ill live and 50 chance that ill die. But in the end, ive left my mark. Ive left children who are going to live and complete our future. Rady saad calculates his odds at 50 50 because the White Helmets themselves are targets of the assad regime. Jarrah the plane doesnt attack once. It usually attacks twice or three times. So, the Civil Defense are able to actually continue doing their work, even understanding that that plane is waiting for people to gather up because it wants to come back and attack when theres a large crowd of people. Pelley the White Helmets call that second bomb run, the one aimed at them, a double tap. And it happened during this rescue in aleppo. Raed saleh wears the loss of his men and his country. He once owned an electronics business. The White Helmets in more than 100 towns elected him their leader. How many of your people have you lost . He told us a white helmet had been killed that morning, and as of last week, saleh has lost more than 190 volunteers. How did the White Helmets begin . After several bombings, he said, there were individual initiatives by regular people tailors, blacksmiths, carpenters, university students, doctors; people from different backgrounds, who formed teams to respond to emergencies in a more organized fashion. After that, there was communication with outside organizations who began to train these teams. This is the training, in a country we agreed not to name. Elite disaster teams from other nations teach the use of microphones to sense vibrations, and cameras to peer into crevices. The United States chipped in 29 million for this, about a quarter of the White Helmets budget. This home was blasted into a familys tomb. The only thing escaping was one faint voice. A white helmet, searching, calls out, brother, can you see our light . The voice replies, somethings on my back. Hes right. Its the roof. But for an inch, the 16yearold boy would be dead. Youre looking at him right there, face down. This is his shoulder and his right arm, already in a cast. No architects calculation of blast loading or lateral resistance can explain the simple miracles of survival. After seven hours, it appears the boy emerged an orphan and only child. Everyone else in the house was dead. Hadi alabdullah is a syrian journalist who posts stories of the White Helmets on youtube. If there is meaning to the word courage, he said, it is represented by the Civil Defense. Abdullahs stories caught the disapproving notice of the assad dictatorship, and last june, the door of his Apartment Building was connected to a bomb. Without me hearing any explosion, he said, there was stone and steel on top of me, and i couldnt move any of my limbs. Rescue workers hed covered came to uncover him. When i heard the sound of the Civil Defense bulldozer, i started to feel some hope that i might live. Slowly, the stone started to be removed, rock by rock. All of the weight started to lessen. Just hearing their voices gave you hope that you would live . Exactly, he said. I was able to breathe, to hear their voices. It was difficult to open my eyes, but i opened them a little and saw them wearing their White Helmets. I was so happy that i was out of the rubble. They said you were going to die, and then you returned to life. Abdullah endured more than half a dozen surgeries, then returned to syria in a wheelchair to continue his reporting. In turkey, we visited this clinic for syrian amputees, and you find most everyone owes their life to the White Helmets. Was your leg completely severed . Yes, he told us. When the Civil Defense came, they tied my leg for me from here, with a cord. They tied a tourniquet around your leg. Then they put us on stretchers and took us to the field hospital. They didnt leave me there to bleed to death, she said. I would be in heaven if not for the Civil Defense. It seems, in every rescue, there are children. This man flailed for freedom, and just below him a childs head, inches this side of the living. This woman told us her entire family was buried, and she was rescued first. I didnt expect my son would survive, she told us. He was only ten days old. But after 16 hours of labor, her baby was brought into the world, a second time. Everyone told me that hes a miracle child. It really is a miracle. Three years later, her son is all she has. Her husband and daughter are dead. The man who saved her boy, 31 yearold khaled harrah, was later killed in a double tap. He had two children, and another on the way. The White Helmets respond to an average of 35 attacks a day. Fighting for life in a vicious war, they were nominated last year for the nobel peace prize. Syria has descended into murder on an industrial scale, but, on the outer limits of cruelty, humanity begins. 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Its called citizenship by investment, and as we first reported in january, its become a 2 billion industry, built around people looking for a change of scenery or a change of passport, a new life or maybe a new identity, a getaway from the rat race or perhaps an escape from an exspouse or interpol. In any event, its brought in huge amounts of revenue for the sellers, and attracted among the buyers a rogues gallery of scoundrels, fugitives, tax cheats and possibly much worse. If youre shopping for another passport, the top of the line right now is malta. By investing 1 million in this mediterranean island, a russian or chinese or a saudi can become a european citizen with a new e. U. Passport that will allow them to travel just about anywhere without a visa. There are also much cheaper, less discriminating alternatives available in the caribbean, especially on the tiny island of dominica, where Lennox Linton is a member of parliament. How much does it cost to get a citizenship . Lennox linton 100,000. Kroft do you have to come and live in dominica . Linton no. No. You dont even have to come to dominica to get the citizenship. You pay the money from wherever you are. Kroft sort of just mail order citizenship . Linton sort of. Something like that. Kroft our introduction to this world of citizenship by investment came in dubai, the gleaming, International Bazaar that was hosting the ninth annual Global Citizenship conference. Gathered here were government officials, lawyers, bankers and Real Estate Developers who facilitate and profit from the trade of citizenship for cash. Chris kalin good evening, and a very warm welcome. Kroft this is the man who more or less invented the business chris kalin, chairman of henley and partners, a Consulting Firm with offices where else but in zurich, switzerland. For a fee and healthy commissions, kalin helps countries set up their program, rewrite their citizenship laws and recruit people of means looking for a second, third or fourth passport, which he sees as just another travel accessory, a passport of convenience. Kalin you probably have more than one credit card, i would assume. And, you know, if visa doesnt work, mastercard will do. So, i think any wealthy person nowadays should have more than one credit card. And likewise, youd have more than one passport. Kroft but you need to have some money to do this . Kalin yes. Kroft to be able to do this . Kalin yes, absolutely. Its just for wealthy people, of course. Yeah. Kroft quite often, these wealthy customers come from politically problematic countries where their passports dont work very well, making it difficult for them to get where they want to go. Global citizens Like International lawyer sirous motevassel, a middle easterner from iran who travels on a west Indian Passport from st. Kitts and nevis. And where do you live . Sirous motevassel im living in dubai, united arab emirates. Kroft so, youre an iranian living in dubai with st. Kitts citizenship. Motevassel yes. Yeah. Kroft thats complicated. Motevassel laughs yeah, it. Yeah. This is the life. Kroft its the life because motevassels st. Kitts passport, available for 250,000 or a 400,000 real estate investment, allows him entry to more than 100 countries without having to get special permission. Its a legal way to circumvent visa controls that nations set up to screen people coming into their country. But its also an opportunity for shady characters to mask their true identity and avoid suspicion as they travel around the globe. The business was born here in st. Kitts, when chris kalin struck a deal with the government a decade ago following the collapse of the islands sugar industry. Since then, passports have become its major export, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in income. In fact, in 2014, the last year for which there are government statistics available, 40 of the governments revenue came from selling passports. Its provided st. Kitts and nevis with hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure projects, private development and tourism, but a lot of the money is unaccounted for. More than 10,000 people have purchased citizenship here, but its almost impossible to tell who they are because the information is not public. Chris kalin doesnt like the words citizenship for cash, or any suggestion that all you n