16. Ella Levy-Weinrib, “Meet the Hamas Billionaires,” Globes, July 24, 2014.
17. Interview, December 13, 2016.
18. Ari Shavit, “The Waiting Game,” Ha’aretz, May 14, 2005.
19. Presentation by Efraim Halevy, Director of the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (“The Mossad”) for the NATO–Israel Nineteen Plus One Dialogue, June 26, 2002.
20. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 27, 2016.
21. Ibid.
22. Yossi Melman, “Kidon, the Mossad Within the Mossad,” Ha’aretz, February 19, 2010.
23. Ronen Bergman, “Ba Le’Mossad Bahur Hadash,” Yediot Aharonot, April 22, 2003.
Chapter Seven: Blood Money
1. “(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Arab Bank Following Settlement with Terror Victims,” Jewish Press, August 18, 2015.
2. Lawrence Joffe, “Abdul-Majid Shoman,” Guardian, August 18, 2005.
3. Ibid.
4. http://addustour.com/ViewarchiveTopic.aspx?ac=localandgover200010local80.html (October 28, 2010).
5. Christopher M. Blanchard and Alfred B. Prados, “Saudi Arabia: Terrorist Financing Issues,” Congressional Research Service, September 14, 2007.
6. Ibid.
7. http://www.osenlaw.com/case/arab-bank-case.
8. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 30, 2016.
9. Amos Harel, “IDF Arrests Most-Wanted Hamas Bomb Mastermind in West Bank,” Ha’aretz, May 23, 2006.
10. Tracey Wilkinson, “Blast Kills 7 at University in Jerusalem,” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2002.
11. Elliot Abrams, “After Fayyad,” Weekly Standard, April 16, 2013.
12. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=64915&st=&st1=.
13. https://it.ojp.gov/PrivacyLiberty/authorities/statutes/1286.
14. http://www.osenlaw.com/case/arab-bank-case.
15. Janine Zacharia, “U.S. Freezes Arab Terror Groups’ Bank Accounts,” Jerusalem Post, November 4, 2001.
16. Juan C. Zarate, Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, New York: Public Affairs/Perseus Books Group, 2013, p. 105.
17. Interview, with Harpoon officer, Tel Aviv, May 31, 2017.
Chapter Eight: Operation Green Lantern
1. http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/suicide%20and%20other%20bombing%20attacks%20in%20israel%20since.aspx.
2. Interview, May 30, 2016.
3. Ibid.
4. Interview, with Uri, February 14, 2017.
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, with Colonel (Res.) Maurice Hirsch, May 9, 2017.
7. Efrat Weiss, “Gormei Bitachon: He’Hramnu ce-40 Milyon Shekel Be’Ramallah,” Ynet Magazine, February 26, 2004.
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, with Mohammed Najib, Ramallah, February 11, 2017.
10. http://www.justice.gov.il/Units/HalbantHon/docs/-20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%.pdf.
11. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 25, 2016.
12. Ibid.
13. See interview, with Mohammed Najib, Ramallah, February 11, 2017.
14. Matthew Kalman, “‘Armed Robbery’ Israeli Troops Raid Palestinian Banks, Take $9-Million,” Globe and Mail, February 26, 2004.
15. Interview, Lod, October 1, 2016.
16. See Efrat Weiss, “Gormei Bitachon: He’Hramnu ce-40 Milyon Shekel Be’Ramallah,” Ynet Magazine, February 26, 2004.
17. See interview, with Uri, February 14, 2017.
18. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04TELAVIV1392_a.html.
19. Gal Brenner, “Gormei Bitachon: Ha’Bank Ha’Aravi Ke’Tzinor Ha’Mimum Ha’Merkazi Shel Ha’Hamas Ve’Ha’Jihad,” News1, July 11, 2004.
20. See Matthew Kalman, “‘Armed Robbery’ Israeli Troops Raid Palestinian Banks, Take $9-Million,” Globe and Mail, February 26, 2004.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
Chapter Nine: The Letter of the Law
1. Interview, Haderah, March 28, 2014.
2. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 18, 2017.
3. Interview, Ramat Gan, September 30, 2016.
4. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/s740.
5. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/hr2222.
6. Interview, September 29, 2016.
7. Dan Levine, “In Anti-Terrorism Lawsuits, Verdicts Are Just the First Battle,” Reuters, April 29, 2015.
8. Yossi Melman, “Hatzatza El Ha’Maavak Ha’Mishpati Be’Terror: ‘Menasim Le’Hochiach Zika Le’Reshut,” Ma’ariv, July 2, 2015.
9. Interview, February 16, 2017.
10. Interview, May 28, 2016.
Chapter Ten: The Higher Cost of Murder
1. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Gordon Clubb, Simon Mabon, Terrorism and Political Violence, London: Sage Publishing, 2015, p. 185.
2. http://laad.btl.gov.il/Web/He/Victims/112.aspx?lastName=&firstName=&fatherName=&motherName=&place=&year=&month=&day=&yearHeb=&monthHeb=&dayHeb=®ion=%2020%&period=14&grave=.
3. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=20061215&id=BvMeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eoYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6771,5191936.
4. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 29, 2016.
5. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05TELAVIV1013_a.html.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Greg Myre and Dina Kraft, “Suicide Bombing in Israel Kills 9; Hamas Approves,” New York Times, April 18, 2006.
9. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 26, 2016.
Chapter Eleven: The Party of God
1. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 30, 2016.
2. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 8, 2017.
3. Interview, Bina Dagan, Tel Aviv, May 9, 2017.
4. David K. Shipler, “Lebanese Tell of Anguish of Living Under the PLO; Thefts by PLO Are Described,” New York Times, July 25, 1982.
5. Ibid.
6. Eli Ashkenazi and Yoav Stern, “New Film Leaves Parents in the Dark on Sons’ Fate During Kidnap,” Ha’aretz, September 5, 2006.
7. Hassan M. Fattah and Steven Erlanger, “Israel Blockades Lebanon; Wide Strikes by Hezbollah,” New York Times, July 14, 2006.
8. Ibid.
9. Uzi Rubin, “Hizballah’s Rocket Campaign Against Northern Israel: A Preliminary Report,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief 6, no. 10, August 31, 2006.
10. David B. Green, “1973: Moshe Dayan Allegedly Suggests Israel Demonstrate Its Nuclear Capacity,” Ha’aretz, October 7, 2016.
11. See Hassan M. Fattah and Steven Erlanger, “Israel Blockades Lebanon; Wide Strikes by Hezbollah,” New York Times, July 14, 2006.
12. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 25, 2016.
13. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 28, 2016.
14. Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative Unit, “Hezbollah Banks Under Attack in Lebanon,” NBC News Investigates, July 25, 2016.
15. Ibid.
16. Matt M. Matthews, We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War, Long War Series Occasional Paper 26, Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Combat Studies Institute Press, 2008.
17. “Retired Israeli Generals Vent,” Washington Times, September 26, 2006.
Chapter Twelve: Greed
1. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 31, 2016.
2. “Factbox: Costs of War and Recovery in Lebanon and Israel,” Reuters, July 9, 2007.
3. Ibid.
4. Andrew Lee Butters, “Lebanon’s Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah,” Time, September 16, 2009.
5. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 29, 2016.
6. Interview, Hadera (Israel), September 5, 2015.
7. Joshua Hersh, “Follow the Money,” National, February 4, 2010.
8. Robert Fisk, “‘Lebanon’s Madoff’ Bankrupted After Bouncing $200,000 Cheque to Hizbollah,” Independent, September 7, 2009.
9. “Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah,” Ynet News, July 31, 2006.
10. “Iran: Ensuring Hezbollah’s Loyalty,” Stratfor, October 6, 2009.
11. https://now.
mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/ezzedine_shows_hezbollahs_moral_bankruptcy.
12. Yossi Melman, “Should Retired IDF Officers Do Business in Arab States or Not?” Ha’aretz, September 18, 2008.
13. Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman, “How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2, 2017.
14. Shuki Sadeh, “The Badly Kept Secret of Israel’s Trade Throughout the Muslim World,” Ha’aretz, January 19, 2012.
15. See Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman, “How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2, 2017.
16. “Secret Israeli Business Deals with Gulf States May Herald Public Ties,” Tower, February 3, 2017.
17. See Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman, “How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2, 2017.
18. “Salah Ezzedine, le «Madoff» Libanais,” Libération, September 14, 2009.
19. Robert F. Worth, “Billion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Rivets Lebanon,” New York Times, September 15, 2009.
20. See Joshua Hersh, “Follow the Money,” National, February 4, 2010.
21. Ibid.
22. Doron Peskin, “Miliard Ha’Me’Kurav Le’Hezbollah Hashud Be’Hona’at A’anaq,” Ynet, August 31, 2009.
23. See “Iran: Ensuring Hezbollah’s Loyalty,” Stratfor, October 6, 2009.
24. See Andrew Lee Butters, “Lebanon’s Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah,” Time, September 16, 2009.
25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFDybGduiI.
26. Ibid.
27. See Joshua Hersh, “Follow the Money,” National, February 4, 2010.
28. See Andrew Lee Butters, “Lebanon’s Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah,” Time, September 16, 2009.
29. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFDybGduiI.
30. See Joshua Hersh, “Follow the Money,” National, February 4, 2010.
31. Alia Ibrahim, “Investment Scandal Damages Hezbollah,” Washington Post, November 26, 2009.
32. See “Iran: Ensuring Hezbollah’s Loyalty,” Stratfor, October 6, 2009.
33. See Robert F. Worth, “Billion-Dollar Pyramid Scheme Rivets Lebanon,” New York Times, September 15, 2009.
34. See “Iran: Ensuring Hezbollah’s Loyalty,” Stratfor, October 6, 2009.
Chapter Thirteen: The Cocaine Jihadis
1. Colin Freeze, “Canadian Spy Secrets Exposed in WikiLeaks Dump,” Globe and Mail, November 29, 2010.
2. Tim Whitmire, “Two Convicted in Hezbollah Smuggling,” Yahoo News, June 21, 2002.
3. https://www.atf.gov/our-history/operation-smokescreen.
4. “Man Gets 155 Years For Leading Hezbollah Smuggling Scheme,” Ha’aretz, March 1, 2003.
5. Library of Congress, “A Global Overview of Narcotics-Funded Terrorist and Other Groups,” May 2002.
6. Matthew Levitt, “Hezbollah as a Criminal Organization,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Fathom, Autumn 2013.
7. Ibid.
8. Orianna Zill and Lowell Bergman, “The Black Peso Money Laundering System,” Frontline, PBS.
9. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, “The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus,” Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2014.
10. Linette Lopez, “A Suspected Terrorist and Drug Trafficker Just Became Venezuela’s Vice President,” Business Insider, January 5, 2017.
11. Yossi Melman, “The Prying Game,” Ha’aretz, July 23, 2006.
12. Amos Harel, “Kais Obeid Plotted to Abduct Other Israelis,” Ha’aretz, March 24, 2004.
13. Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, “Venezuela Defends Controversial Flights to Iran and Syria,” CNN, August 21, 2010.
14. See Linette Lopez, “A Suspected Terrorist and Drug Trafficker Just Became Venezuela’s Vice President,” Business Insider, January 5, 2017.
15. Interview, Washington, D.C., March 11, 2017.
16. Shlomo Abromovitz, “Jihad Derekh Ha’Vrid,” Yediot Aharonot Sheva Yamim, September 25, 1998.
17. See Matthew Levitt, “Hezbollah as a Criminal Organization,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Fathom, Autumn 2013.
18. Interview, Tel Aviv, June 1, 2016.
19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GfdH9AzAXE.
20. Robin Wright, “The Assad Family: Nemesis of Nine U.S. Presidents,” New Yorker, April 11, 2017.
21. Yarin Kimor, “Sochnut Hayav Be’Meleyat 30 Le’Moto Shel Meir Dagan Z’l,” Israel Channel 1, April 20, 2016.
22. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 29, 2016.
23. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg52925/html/CHRG-111shrg52925.htm.
24. Gareth Smyth, “‘A Kind of Death’: Life on the US Treasury Blacklist,” Guardian, May 25, 2016.
25. Ariella Ringel-Hoffman, “Yoter Sodi Me’Ha’Mossad,” Yediot Aharonot—Mosaf Yom Ha’Atzma’ut, April 20, 1999.
26. http://sawte.com/showthread.php?t=7794.
27. See https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg52925/html/CHRG-111shrg52925.htm.
28. See interview, Tel Aviv, June 1, 2016.
Chapter Fourteen: Follow the Money
1. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 29, 2016.
2. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 30, 2016.
3. Matthew Levitt, “Hizbullah Narco-Terrorism: A Growing Cross-Border Threat,” IHS Defense, Risk, and Security Consulting, September 2012.
4. Marco Vernaschi, “Guinea Bissau: Hezbollah, al Qaida and the Lebanese Connection,” Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, June 19, 2009.
5. Adam Nossiter, “U.S. Sting That Snared African Ex-Admiral Shines Light on Drug Trade,” New York Times, April 15, 2013.
6. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 30, 2016.
Chapter Fifteen: Malware and Moles
1. “Seeking Spies?,” Newsweek, January 11, 1993.
2. Ingrid Lunden, “Website Builder Wix Acquires Art Community DeviantArt for $36M,” Tech Crunch, February 23, 2017.
3. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 28, 2016.
4. Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, p. 54.
5. https://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Pages/Office-of-Foreign-Assets-Control.aspx.
6. Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson, “The Money Trail: Finding, Following, and Freezing Terrorist Finances,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus No. 89, November 2008, p. 25.
7. https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1057.aspx.
8. Interview, Tel Aviv, September 28, 2016.
9. Kim Zetter, “Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload,” Wired, August 9, 2012.
10. See Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger (producers), Zero Days (documentary film), Magnolia Pictures, Germany, 2016.
11. Fahmida Y. Rashid, “Gauss Attack Toolkit Targeting Lebanese Banks Related to Stuxnet, Flame,” Security Week, August 9, 2012.
12. See Kim Zetter, “Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload,” Wired, August 9, 2012.
13. Zvi Bar’el, “Neighbors: The Bomblets Left Behind,” Ha’aretz, April 7, 2010.
14. Interview, Jerusalem, June 1, 2016.
15. https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/hp73.aspx.
16. Nour Samaha, “Lebanon’s Intelligence War,” al-Jazeera Online, December 2, 2011.
17. http://docu.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1141626.
18. Ibid.
19. Greg Miller, “Hezbollah Damages CIA Spy Network in Lebanon,” Washington Post, November 21, 2011.
20. Interview, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2017.
21. “Gun Battles Break Out in Beirut,” CNN, May 9, 2008.
22. See Zvi Bar’el, “Neighbors: The Bomblets Left Behind,” Ha’aretz, April 7, 2010.
Chapter Sixteen: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
1. Natalie S
chreffler, “North Korea and Hezbollah: A Nexus Worth Fearing?,” Penn State International Affairs Review, April 8, 2013.
2. Declaration of Shai U., “Ya’akov Licci Against American Express Bank Ltd.,” July 6, 2009.
3. Ibid.
4. Transcript of oral argument, https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/arguments/2012/Oct12/Transcripts/101012-183.pdf.
5. “Arab Bank Fined $24m For Laundering,” al-Jazeera,” August 17, 2005.
6. Aaron D. Pina, “Palestinian Factions,” CRS Report for Congress, June 8, 2005.
7. Interview, Tel Aviv, May 29, 2017.
Chapter Seventeen: We Cannot Confirm or Deny
1. Associated Press, JPost.com Staff, “Life for Lebanese Man for Israel Spying,” Jerusalem Post, August 1, 2009.
2. Conal Urquhart, “Israel Kills Hamas Leader in Syrian Capital,” Guardian, September 27, 2004.
3. Joel Greenberg, “Palestinian Militant Slain in Damascus,” Chicago Tribune, September 27, 2004.
4. Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima, “CIA and Mossad Killed Senior Hezbollah Figure in Car Bombing,” Washington Post, January 30, 2015.
5. Jean-Pierre Filiu, Gaza: A History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 206–207.
6. Interview, Chief Superintendent “Shimon,” Lod, April 17, 2014.
7. Ibid.
8. Ronen Bergman, “The Dubai Job,” GQ, January 4, 2011.
9. Staff, “An Eye for an Eye: The Anatomy of Mossad’s Dubai Operation,” Der Spiegel, January 17, 2011.
10. Interview, September 26, 2016.
11. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, “Israel’s Hit Squads,” Atlantic, February 2010.
12. Eran Zohar, “The Flow of Arms into the Gaza Strip,” Australian Institute of International Affairs, October 1, 2015.
13. Lee Smith, “Smugglers Galore: How Iran Arms Its Allies,” Weekly Standard, December 31, 2012.
14. Staff, “How Israel Foiled an Arms Convoy Bound for Hamas,” Time, March 30, 2009.
15. Kim Zetter, “Dubai Assassination Followed Failed Attempt by Same Team,” Wired, January 4, 2011.
16. See Ronen Bergman, “The Dubai Job,” GQ, January 4, 2011.
17. Ilan Evyatar, “Smoke, Mirrors, Cloaks, and Daggers,” Jerusalem Post Magazine, September 24, 2010.
18. Robert Fisk, “Passport to the Truth in Dubai Remains Secret,” Independent, February 17, 2010.
19. Danna Harman, “Dubai Assassination Spotlights Top Cop Skills in a Modern-Day Casablanca,” Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 2010.
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