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One of the ways Hezbollah earns money — about one billion dollars a year — is by drug trafficking. It controls much of the sale of drugs sent from Colombia and Venezuela to customers in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. For eight years, beginning in 2008, a wide-ranging investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency known as Project Cassandra uncovered how Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle Eastern political and military organization into an international crime syndicate, but Project Cassandra was shut down by the Obama administration, that wanted to go easy on Hezbollah in order to curry favor with Iran at a time when the administration wanted Tehran to agree to the “Iran deal” that, it was hoped, would stop Iran’s nuclear project from proceeding (spoiler alert: it didn’t). More on the Obama administration’s folly can be found here: “Hezbollah received billions of dollars thanks to Obama shutting down a DEA operation to destroy its drug smuggling operations,” Elder of Ziyon, October 28, 2024:
In 2017, Politico broke a story that has particular relevance to what is happening in Lebanon today.
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
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 cocaine 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. 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.
“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision,” said David Asher, who helped establish and oversee Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”
The article also notes how the Obama administration was convinced that Hezbollah had “moderate” elements that could be encouraged….
Of course, there is no “moderate” wing of Hezbollah. This was a fantasy that the greenhorns in the Obama administration allowed themselves to believe.
Did Obama’s attempt to curry favor with Iran by ending an investigation into Hezbollah for drug-and-weapons trafficking work? Did the “Iran deal” that Tehran ultimately agreed to actually halt Iran’s march to nuclear weapons, or only slow it down? Tehran did not stop working on its nuclear project, but the Obama administration refused to recognize its own folly in trusting the Iranians to uphold their side of the Iran deal. Still worse, despite the evidence amassed by the investigators of Operation Cassandra, there was no attempt to stop Hezbollah from continuing its drug trafficking operation. The billion dollars it took in paid both for weapons (not all of its weapons are supplied free by Iran) and for the salaries of its fighters. The Middle East would have become a very different place if the Obama administration had gone after Hezbollah as a criminal enterprise, and shut down its trafficking operations. Had that happened, perhaps Obama would have earned his undeserved and inexplicable Nobel Peace Prize.
Two words – Valerie Jarrett
Exactly. I would add Susan Rice to that list.
I would add the word Abeed. ….. Obama’s “Dreams of My Father” was him playing out his psychodrama in the oval office, on America’s dime.
Obama is a rage filled mediocre loser who somehow was elevated to a role way beyond him and brought his psychopathologies with him to that role. Childish spite, hatreds, teenage rebellion type use of symbolism and a general lack of any compassion, especially toward Jews, Israel, and all Americans.
Well said. Upvoted.
You mised evil, demonic and oerverted !
Rev. Roy………<
Obama should be charged with aiding and Abetting the Crinimals and get Life in Prison with Clinton(Bill)for Treason and Biden to
To use a very hackneyed but very appropriate cliché: you don’t know the half of it, including criminal misconduct bordering on treason from the highest levels of the Obama regime and abetted by its presstitutes. The Cassandra exposé was — to use another highly overused but apt cliché — just the tip of the iceberg.
“What Brian Ross wants to do is get video, then take it to the agencies involved and ask them, ‘How is it possible that [ABC News] can easily find a most wanted terrorist, but you can’t?'”
—4 March 2010
Don’t forget that obambi called off the bin Laden mission multiple times, and was on the golf course when Panetta gave it the go ahead and didn’t tell him until it was underway.
But what else would expect from a man whose first campaign manager was an unrepentant murdering domestic terrorist whose only regret was he didn’t kill more.
Is anyone surprised that this gay muslim is a traitor. Thank God his tired act has finally crashed on the rocks. Black men didn’t exactly respond to his self-indulgent tongue wagging….finally.
It is long past time to arrest this chocolate Jesus, and try him for the traitorous P.O.S. that he always has been
It worked from his prospective. Barack Hussein Osama’s wet dream is a nuclear iran, Hezbollah in power in Lebanon and a “judenrein” Palestinian state on the ruins of Israel run by Hamas. Everything he does promotes that agenda.
And all of the fundamental transformation has failed. Iran ain’t nuclear yet. There is a rumor that Israel actually went after and destroyed much of Iran’s nuke capability. So far Israel has denied it.
So before you put your HopenChange t-shirt back on take stock of what has happened.
Rmembering Philip Haney. May he rest in peace.
Great Man , Phillip Haney, He knew too much & “They” silenced Him😢. RIP.
Leftoxenomorphs don’t care about “favor”
Leftoxenomorphs are religious fanatics of the religion of leftoxenomorphism whose dogma compels them to act in certain ways on pure faith and nothing else.
Thus you have “LGBTputridnessforyouandme” orcs that clap like trained seals for the very same pisslims that would murder them for . . . yup, religious reasons.
People don’t understand we are in the midst of religious wars and the religion of leftoxenomorphism is taking over by storm.
The Frankfurt School cultural marxism has won, hand down and Western Civilization is on the way out.
Both the late Constitutional Republic the United States of America (July 4th, 1776 – November 3rd, 2020) and eurabia have been taken over by rabid leftoxenomorphs and the religion of leftoxenomorphism is communism, is nazism, is collectivism, is Attila and the witch-“doctor”
Die in ignorance if you choose. IMMO people ought to make an effort to understand what’s happening.
99% of everything in any way organized in AINO-Venezuerica is firmly in the hands of leftoxenomorphs that gatekeep every conquest jealously.
Even if Trump gets to win, AINO-Venezuerica is on leftoxenomorph rails, full speed towards an abyss of collectivism, ruled by a thugocracy of woketards, not very bright, but non-leftoxenomorphs have proven to be useless, by now, so leftoxenomorphs are having a party.
Let Trump walk back into the White Hose and watch what happens.
He will be alone against a whole half the country of religious fanatics bent on leftoxenomorph mayhem.
It’s clear that you hate this country and you are a wordy long winded bore. Not a lot going on that stupid word salad.
Did you move that claymore around like I suggested? It should say “Front towards you”
BARACK OBAMA has always been in bed with Democracy and Judeo-Christians’ enemies.
Do a search for Barack Obama and the Saudis 9/11 invaders. No one on this side worked for the invaders in the aftermath of 9/11 more than Obomb!
But then the Saudis regime has always pumped big bribes/loot into the presidential libraries of Bush, Clinton, Obama and the Clinton Foundation Family Slush Fund.
And the media wondered how Obamba became a Billionaire
The drugs keep flowing, the Obama keeps knowing, the thugs keep mowing.
We are in the last period of a real world, the world where decent people survive and we arn’t just used as pawns for the enrichment of “those people”
Hopefully Trump will be able to swim against the river of scum
Resulting, under Biden, that the cartels took control of the US immigration policy completely.
Every family whose child has died from Hezbollah-supplied drugs should sue for the decision not to shut down that drug-running operation.
Nobel Prize which was awarded to him just as he was taking office — before he had done anything except get elected and spout commie nonsense. He was an “organizer” of the “rabble.”
He also ran guns to Mexican criminal cartels. Remember “Operation Fast and Furious?”. Obama was, and remains, a real piece of…work.
Check Out “Deutsche Welle” and their coverage in a three part video series. They place the blame on Hezbollah’s continued funding, terror activities and drug trafficking into the EU directly on Obama
Unmasking Hezbollah – Episode 1: Project Cassandra
04/18/2024April 18, 2024
In 2008, the United States launched “Project Cassandra”. The aim was to uncover how Hezbollah uses drug trafficking and money laundering to finance its military and terrorist activiti
Here is what Obammy has done since he first came into office until this very day. He has made a plan for Muslims to invade the United States, and it has been a successful invasion. Islam migrates into areas they want to ultimately conquer. As they gain strength in numbers, they begin their kinetic war (Global Jihad).
This invasion has gone on undetected by our “intelligent” leadership and when they begin their kinetic war upon an unsuspecting public, they will have no answer as they have not studied Islam and do not understand the enemy that is plotting our demise.
Loke at Europe and see how the Islamic plan of migration is working there.
Our elite leadership will not know what has hit them and the public will be suffering for their ignorance.
Put our former Democrat leadership, Obammy and his hacks under oath and let the truth come forth.