HEZBOLLAH INC. The DEA's Top Secret Plan to Stop Them // Documentary (Part III)

By 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration had gathered enough evidence to prove that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a military and political organization into an international crime syndicate earning up to $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities. ‘Project Cassandra’ was the ambitious, top-secret project to stop them. This three part series tells the story of ‘Project Cassandra’, through the testimonies of DEA agents and other people involved. It’s a tale that helps explain the history and rise of Hezbollah, making a complex geopolitical story accessible to a larger audience.
France has been the preferred country for Hezbollah militants to seek asylum since 2010. It offers several advantages: the potential to blend in with a large Lebanese community and free movement on European territory. Paris was chosen as a bridgehead for laundering money from cocaine trafficking. The D.E.A., the American anti-drug agency, alerted the French police. Together they opened a new chapter in Operation Cassandra, named “Operation Cedar” after the tree that symbolizes Lebanon.
This film was first released in 2023
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  • @JavaDiscover
    @JavaDiscover13 күн бұрын

    By 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration had gathered enough evidence to prove that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a military and political organization into an international crime syndicate earning up to $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities. ‘Project Cassandra’ was the ambitious, top-secret project to stop them. This three part series tells the story of ‘Project Cassandra’, through the testimonies of DEA agents and other people involved. It’s a tale that helps explain the history and rise of Hezbollah, making a complex geopolitical story accessible to a larger audience.

  • @luke.4317
    @luke.431727 күн бұрын

    now i want a documentary on why the oppium trades escaleded while americans where in afghanistans and how usa funded muhjadeen during ussr war in afghanistan

  • @user-ef3gy4mt1f

    @user-ef3gy4mt1f

    21 күн бұрын

    Heroin production also raised in Southeast Asia (golden triangel) just during and after Vietnam war.... hmmm such coinsidence

  • @buildmotosykletist1987

    @buildmotosykletist1987

    10 күн бұрын

    Opium production reduced dramatically when the US invaded Afghanistan causing a global shortage. One side effect was less customers for so called drug treatment clinics and driving up corruption in that industry.

  • @vivekstreme1994

    @vivekstreme1994

    Күн бұрын

    i want a documentary on how the biggest islamic country- Indonesia has one of the biggest drug problem in the world where drugs are against your religion

  • @AlpaCino-jp7ib
    @AlpaCino-jp7ib26 күн бұрын

    Moral of the story: It's illegal to traffic drugs and firearms unless you are Israel, Britain or USA 😌

  • @moscuadelendaest

    @moscuadelendaest

    20 күн бұрын

    clearly you haven't watched it XD

  • @miroslawwasik3267

    @miroslawwasik3267

    20 күн бұрын

    He and another 23 who liked his comment

  • @AlpaCino-jp7ib

    @AlpaCino-jp7ib

    15 күн бұрын

    Maybe I know something you don't, sorry clearly I do 😌

  • @RoyalBlue292

    @RoyalBlue292

    12 күн бұрын

    ​@@AlpaCino-jp7ib You are incredibly correct. I agree 100%!

  • @buildmotosykletist1987

    @buildmotosykletist1987

    10 күн бұрын

    Why did you comment without watching ?

  • @liam_g5192
    @liam_g519226 күн бұрын

    The empire is failing, get your own oil in texas...

  • @ecolivelihoods
    @ecolivelihoods27 күн бұрын

    Brilliant series - congratulations! 🔥

  • @silviacastilho78

    @silviacastilho78

    25 күн бұрын

    It is from DW

  • @JavaDiscover

    @JavaDiscover

    13 күн бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @leejones6328
    @leejones632827 күн бұрын

    if all this is real big if ,hasnt america made money from drugs just same and many other dodgy ways .worlds a sess pit of lies n deciet

  • @moscuadelendaest

    @moscuadelendaest

    20 күн бұрын

    does that mean it's OK?

  • @buildmotosykletist1987

    @buildmotosykletist1987

    10 күн бұрын

    You're right the Arab world is a "Cesspit".

  • @user-hj1tq3el9s
    @user-hj1tq3el9s26 күн бұрын

    Politics is a dirty game.

  • @deanjericevic8912
    @deanjericevic891217 күн бұрын

    Insightful & interesting as it further enhances some understanding of the geopolitical landscape of what is unfolding today as the Hamas-Israeli conflict.

  • @silverbackrubsVR
    @silverbackrubsVR28 күн бұрын

    The DEA top secret plan posted on KZread 🎉

  • @keithskelly7783

    @keithskelly7783

    28 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @walkingspottedbear

    @walkingspottedbear

    28 күн бұрын

    If I hadn't been up so long I ran into this, LMFAO

  • @user-xl3tn2vt1s

    @user-xl3tn2vt1s

    28 күн бұрын

    Funny

  • @Error_-qz2zr

    @Error_-qz2zr

    27 күн бұрын

    did you not watch the video? the project was dismantled by the obama administration to make the iran deal all the people got free and still running the show the DEA aint going after anyone one of these anymore because they own government shut them down

  • @tsepocharles2856

    @tsepocharles2856

    27 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @Aghdrpbfm237
    @Aghdrpbfm23728 күн бұрын

    Stolen from DW documentaties Tool alert

  • @Error_-qz2zr

    @Error_-qz2zr

    27 күн бұрын

    if you havent realized dw did not make this these channels buy the rights of already made docs and post it on there channel

  • @sheenadarlene
    @sheenadarlene9 күн бұрын

    Amazing, well told, series. So sad that uk & Europe, Russia and America have sold us out to the Islamic state. We’ve seen how it worked out in Persia/Iran, and the same story is playing out in the Uk.

  • @Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak

    @Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak

    6 күн бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @shawnrae4022
    @shawnrae402224 күн бұрын

    41:51 - Lolol and a “dirty 0Le’ businessman “ at that….. 😅😂

  • @aminheydarian914
    @aminheydarian91426 күн бұрын

    1:45 That’s an Krinkov AKS-74u. Smallest type of AK used mostly in Pakistan and Afghanistan

  • @nyimatsering2757
    @nyimatsering275726 күн бұрын

    Greedy took over righteousness ! Shame USA and France!

  • @soulcontractor1641
    @soulcontractor164128 күн бұрын

    It will never stop until they stop perpetualating " Hate breeds Hate"!

  • @planmet
    @planmet28 күн бұрын

    Was the ammonium nitrate in Beirut used for hiding shipments of cash to Venezuela - to pay for cocaine supplies - as mentioned in episode2?

  • @Error_-qz2zr

    @Error_-qz2zr

    27 күн бұрын

    no the ammonium nitrate was for making bombs

  • @tonnitoedwards

    @tonnitoedwards

    23 күн бұрын

    There is a story that that Ammonium nitrate was a shipment to an African country for making fertilizer but the shipping company owner who was Georgian was low on finances and decided to dock in a lebanese port to carry more cargo and was unable to pay for docking fees and employee salaries on the ship and decided to abandon the cargo and the ship.. The cargo was consficated by Lebanese port authority an placed into one of the port's warehouse..for a long time and then disaster struck.

  • @radmed979
    @radmed97924 күн бұрын

    Sad, to waste precious life and family in this evil manner, horrifying

  • @FAB0516
    @FAB051628 күн бұрын

    18:43 he's for sure high off coke

  • @Error_-qz2zr

    @Error_-qz2zr

    27 күн бұрын

    no he is just someone like many others that actually got brainwashed by Hezbollah while the leader play games with there lives, that father is suffering a lot for what happened and its just sad what they do to people and there families, they become irans mercenaries no martyrdom in there but they make them believe that

  • @SeekSeekerMaster
    @SeekSeekerMaster28 күн бұрын

    0 evidence 0 documents 0 voice recording 0 videos just claims with nothing to back them up with.

  • @BeyondAestheticsAZ

    @BeyondAestheticsAZ

    27 күн бұрын

    Wow, educate yourself. Please. Because this is embarrassing. This is not new. It’s not propaganda, just because you wish it to be. Everything in these documentaries is well established. Even Arab media outlets have reported on this. For years. The Internet is free. Try using it.

  • @s3eeddw709

    @s3eeddw709

    24 күн бұрын

    That's okay of course they will make them evil because they are fighting Israel as well good timing tho for this documentary

  • @vivekstreme1994

    @vivekstreme1994

    Күн бұрын

    Iranian govt themselves claim that there are drug addicts and drugs are being widely distributed. you can choose to close your eyes and live in your dreamland but this is true

  • @vivekstreme1994

    @vivekstreme1994

    Күн бұрын

    @@s3eeddw709 so you are ok with iran trafficking drugs as a country which follows sharia law?

  • @nicholasjacome341

    @nicholasjacome341

    Күн бұрын

    @@vivekstreme1994 Your comment doesn't even make sense.

  • @user-ht1mw7so2p
    @user-ht1mw7so2p26 күн бұрын

    This boy doesnt know about shia Islam ☪️ 20:41

  • @Galetheos
    @Galetheos6 күн бұрын

    the not so coincident coincidence is that at the same time in 2020 there was a rising revolution in the country that start 1 year prior and the people of all sects/divisions united for the same cause which was unprecedent ergo made it the real deal, no one shouted for their rights anymore after that blast... would you say goal achieved in that case?

  • @aminheydarian914
    @aminheydarian91425 күн бұрын

    20:33 Hay, that’s exactly what’s being said about “The u.s. is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian,” how many u.s. citizens went to Ukraine to fight Russia, not many, less then 2,000 and how many Ukrainians killed fighting a u.s. war against Russia the answer to that is over 150,000 Ukrainians killed. I was in Iran’s armed services during the worst years of the Syrian civil war and we had funerals everyday all over the country and were I lived several funerals a day so don’t talk about something you don’t know about

  • @marcbutler8896

    @marcbutler8896

    18 күн бұрын

    Don't forget 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed so far fighting for USA at present. What a waste of human life.😢

  • @shawnrae4022
    @shawnrae402224 күн бұрын

    47:17 - Well You can forget about that (accountability) where you hang your hat 👒 at night sister…

  • @Ilovesarahbforeva
    @Ilovesarahbforeva27 күн бұрын

    Lebanon isn't hezbullah

  • 24 күн бұрын

    All warfare is based on deception.

  • @sabihatanveer8494
    @sabihatanveer849426 күн бұрын

    😮girl 4rm Lebanon 🎸

  • @registeredmental
    @registeredmental22 күн бұрын

    What happened to the Christian middle east?

  • @donorthner7925
    @donorthner79258 күн бұрын

    that finance wall street guy bragging about meeting with Soros just lost all credibility

  • @johnindahouse8151
    @johnindahouse815120 күн бұрын

    who were the Hezbullah at war with The Regime and Syrian Army.?

  • @vixx275
    @vixx27528 күн бұрын

    Propaganda

  • @rajahua6268
    @rajahua626819 сағат бұрын

    so Saddek had children so he could send them to jihad.... no wonder we have this crazy virtuous cycle of martyrdom

  • @AlpaCino-jp7ib
    @AlpaCino-jp7ib26 күн бұрын

    It smells of unleavened bread here as well 🤢

  • @graemewatkins5535
    @graemewatkins55355 күн бұрын

    Interesting series, all about money for weapons. Are there any nice countries in the region? US foreign policy since 1945 has created all these extremist states. Out of the Israeli Lebanon war of 1982 Hezbollah was formed. And to think Iran was a democracy in 1953 until US did regime change for a dictator. The west is reaping what it sowed including plonking Israel in the middle on land they did not own. The US empire is coming to an end, it won’t be pretty with all the angry states it’s forstered

  • @vivekstreme1994

    @vivekstreme1994

    Күн бұрын

    so naive. these extremist organizations have always been active even before US funding. They only used them to fight Russia. btw palestine doesnt exist, it was owned by egypt. look it up.

  • @blackrose9043
    @blackrose904318 күн бұрын

    Week zionist report and propaganda

  • @jamessmiths6736
    @jamessmiths673624 күн бұрын

    Backward religious Humans No God or Allah just science and evolution

  • @King311___
    @King311___28 күн бұрын

    1st 🥇

  • @jonnywick4611
    @jonnywick461128 күн бұрын

    First

  • @santosferrer6581
    @santosferrer658128 күн бұрын

    Wao now right smells fishy propagandas finnest 😢

  • @jadas3d605
    @jadas3d60528 күн бұрын

    I wonder why they posted this now😂😂 Propaganda at its finest, sad part is people believe this😟

  • @empsgrr57shulz71

    @empsgrr57shulz71

    28 күн бұрын

    Every one believed this. It's a fact. I strongly believed this.

  • @Error_-qz2zr

    @Error_-qz2zr

    27 күн бұрын

    so you really think Hezbollah is some incorruptible political party fighting for muslims while at the same time killing them and being irans puppet organization? how could someone deny that

  • @vivekstreme1994

    @vivekstreme1994

    Күн бұрын

    what is your propaganda? hamas didnt do oct7?

  • @pabloboy6491

    @pabloboy6491

    Күн бұрын

    lol believes in what? That hezbollah are smugglers selling drugs to have money for war with others? Or that they have connections with russians and that helped them free arms smugglers? Or that hezbollah was responsible for the Beirut explosion? What exactly😂 because everything they said was true 😂 you don’t have to accept it but that’s the facts 😊 Just as hamas has never fought for Palestine, hezbollah has never been and will never be what the people of Lebanon want.

  • @mohdmohamed1710
    @mohdmohamed171021 күн бұрын

    Free palestine..

  • @michaelleong2582Quartermaster
    @michaelleong2582Quartermaster24 күн бұрын

    Tiew le loh mo chaw hei, le tek bau to mo jee sek mal lai g le lo mo chow hai fai teek hoa sei lah tiew chow kau.