Follow The Money

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Dark net cyber spy,  Elad Ezrachi  takes us undercover, hacking into closed Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, and Salafist forums in  Syria, Libya, Gaza, and Iraq. He furrows into the Dark Net where Afghan heroin and opiates are sold, weapons are purchased and priceless stolen archaeological artefacts are traded.  The buyers and sellers are terrorist militias and criminal networks.

What we discover online is followed up on the ground. We profile C.A.R  forensic weapons specialists fanning out across Libya, the Sahara, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere finding weapons used by terrorists and retracing their route back to the sellers and the manufacturers. The weapons are sold in Sub Sahara Africa, produced in China and Russia, and distributed to Al Queda  ISIS and related militias from Mali to Libya, Somalia, Yemen and onward to Syria , Egypt and Iraq.

Conflict Armament Research is a well-funded NGO based in London. We follow the British, Canadian, and American forensic experts risking their lives exposing the connection between terror and organised crime in the weapons, drug, and human trafficking trade. Working with a former DEA and RCMP Undercover money launderer, a former head of the Anti-Terror finance Unit in the FBI, we discover and retrace how Hezbollah and other radical terrorist groups forge alliances with the Venezuelan government, and South American cartels to distribute narcotics in the US, and Europe, laundering the money through African companies. We follow an American Archaeologist Investigator, backed up by US Intelligence Satellite reconnaissance networks and spies on the ground in Syria exposing how all the terror militias  and armies in the Syrian conflict are earning up to a billion dollars selling looted antiquities on world markets. We see looters in action. We see rare manuscripts, figurines, and coins- all looted and stolen. We trace the smuggling crime routes to Beirut, and onward to Europe in this comprehensive one hour film made for CBC.