Ukraine connection to Project Cassandra
Ali Fayad
(aka Fayyad). Ukraine-based arms merchant suspected of being a Hezbollah operative moving large amounts of weapons to Syria. Fayad has long been instrumental in providing weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, including through the deadly IED network that had killed so many U.S. troops during the Iraq insurgency, the former officials believed.
Task force agents had information that Fayad, a joint Lebanese and Ukrainian citizen, and the Ghost were involved in moving conventional and chemical weapons into Syria for Hezbollah, Iran and Russia to help President Assad crush the insurgency against his regime that began in 2011.
Fayad also served as a Ukrainian defense ministry adviser under former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych,[26] worked for the state-owned arms exporter Ukrspecexport and appeared to have taken Viktor Anatolyevich Bout place as Vladimir Putin’s go-to arms merchant. Bout was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to Colombian FARC narcoterrorists.
When Fayad’s name surfaced in a DEA investigation in West Africa as a senior Hezbollah weapons trafficker, agents created a sting operation, with undercover operatives posing as Colombian FARC narcoterrorists plotting to shoot down American government helicopters. Fayad offered his expert advice, and after agreeing to provide them with 20 Russian-made shoulder-fired Igla surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), 400 rocket-propelled grenades and various firearms and rocket launchers for $8.3 million, he was arrested in Prague by Czech authorities on a U.S. warrant in April 2014, U.S. court records show.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Project_Cassandra
Remember after Q showed up Sessions said he was looking into the stonewalling of Project Cassandra by the Obama administration:
From DOJ Press Release 1/11/18:
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the creation of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team (HFNT), a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors. HFNT prosecutors and investigators are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah, and pursuing prosecutions in any appropriate cases. The HFNT will begin by assessing the evidence in existing investigations, including cases stemming from Project Cassandra, a law enforcement initiative targeting Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and related operations. "
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-hezbollah-financing-and-narcoterrorism-team