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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3847136/posts?page=5#5 here's a possible link to the Awan bros. scam that George Webb was so into with the cars used as drug carriers.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ..........."Others the team sought to bring to justice were Abdallah Safieddine, Hezzbollah’s envoy to Tehran, and a shadowy operative nicknamed “Ghost,” whom it considered one of the biggest cocaine smugglers in the world. “Hezbollah operates like the Gambino crime family on steroids, and [Safieddine] is its John Gotti,” ex-DEA agent Jack Kelly, who created the task force, told Politico. “Whatever Iran needs, Safieddine is in charge of getting it for them.” Safieddine was ultimately linked to a massive drug-smuggling and money-laundering network allegedly led by Lebanese businessman Ayman Joumaa. Agents discovered Joumaa had smuggled tons of cocaine into the States — then laundered $200 million a month by buying used cars from American dealers. The cars were sent to Benin in West Africa, where satellite photos taken in 2015 showed rows upon rows of used cars in a lot. But the Obama administration repeatedly thwarted efforts to prosecute Safieddine, Politico reported. An Obama spokesman denied the operation was derailed for political reasons, noting several Hezbollah members were arrested. Other administration officials suggested those involved were blind to the bigger picture. “The world is a lot more complicated than viewed through the narrow lens of drug trafficking,” one official said. “So you’re not going to let CIA rule the roost, but you’re also certainly not going to let DEA do it either.” "