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An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
originally posted by: RogueWaterC1
drug trafficking
How Hezbollah turned to trafficking coc aine and laundering money through used cars to finance its expansion.
www.politico.com...
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed coc aine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records.
originally posted by: Grambler
It real simple.
Obama is a cultural Marxist.
He views Israel and more importantly the USA as oppressors, and Hezbollah and Iran as the oppressed.
Pretty much. In order for our Empire to continue its expanse and remain in power, we need to eliminate as many radicals as possible, doing so would insure our families future and generations afterwards.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: pavil
Ultimately US will need to disarm Iran prior conquering and subjugating it just like we do all the rest of the countries we target. Iraq and its WMD, Syria's chemical red line, North Koreas nuclear deterrent.
originally posted by: Arnie123
Pretty much. In order for our Empire to continue its expanse and remain in power, we need to eliminate as many radicals as possible, doing so would insure our families future and generations afterwards.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: pavil
Ultimately US will need to disarm Iran prior conquering and subjugating it just like we do all the rest of the countries we target. Iraq and its WMD, Syria's chemical red line, North Koreas nuclear deterrent.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: Arnie123
Pretty much. In order for our Empire to continue its expanse and remain in power, we need to eliminate as many radicals as possible, doing so would insure our families future and generations afterwards.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: pavil
Ultimately US will need to disarm Iran prior conquering and subjugating it just like we do all the rest of the countries we target. Iraq and its WMD, Syria's chemical red line, North Koreas nuclear deterrent.
US meddling in foreign affairs has not made us any safer.