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#ISRAEL: Search for the Pentagon leaker. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#ISRAEL: Search for the Pentagon leaker. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD

1832 Persian Girl

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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or go to Amazon.co. UK slash ad-free podcasts. That's Amazon. That's Amazon. I'm John Batser visiting with my colleague Jonathan Schanser, the foundation for the

0:37.9

defensive democracy.

0:39.6

Hezbollah, a very large and at this point headless group however it is sophisticated and it's

0:47.4

wired into the Iranians the IRGC so there's reason to believe its logistics are sound. At the same time the

0:56.3

Israelis have been over these last days identifying the money, follow the money,

1:01.4

the Hollywood Trail of Hezbollah, the money it needs to reconstitute itself after

1:08.0

the combat ends, if it ends.

1:11.6

And there's one wonderful story of 500 million dollars found in a

1:16.9

vault somewhere in cash. Who uses cash? This is 20th century, but I understand using electronic banking wouldn't be

1:25.1

wise if you're a known terrorist.

1:27.0

I understand that.

1:29.0

That money, Jonathan, it's surprising to me that they kept it, I guess where are they going to keep it under in a mattress somewhere

1:35.6

But is that the power of Hezbollah not the fighters but the cash?

1:41.2

Well Hezbollah is two things at once. It is a transnational terrorist organization.

1:47.0

It's also an international corporation. They have interests. It's a conglomerate. it's got interests all across the world.

1:54.4

It's got drug running operations in Latin America.

1:59.0

It's got blood diamonds in Africa.

2:01.2

It's got used car sales and tobacco in North America. It's got businesses

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