Operation Greed. Part 3

Two Years Ago.

Tel-Aviv,

After receiving orders from Meir Dagan, officer Uri L. Dagan had started to plan operation greed.

A covert operation which had two motives, first to completely crackdown the economic lifeline of Hezbollah and second to make people rebel against Hezbollah.

Mossad knew about the airlift of cash from Tehran. They knew that a big portion of money was reserved for Ezeedine to invest.

And to accomplish the mission Mossad had chosen operatives with degrees in finance and MBA from America's Ivy League Universities.

February 2007,

Ezzedine was looking for options to invest.

As soon as Ezeedine book a ticket for Dubai, an undercover agent posted in Southern Lebanon informs officer Uri.

Working as a driver in Southern Lebanon this agent's code name was Agent Al-Tahir and was responsible for picking up Mossad agents from Lebanon's Airports.

When officer Uri came to know that Ezeedine is going to Dubai to invest this money, he became vigilant.

He knew that it was way easier for Mossad to operate in Dubai than to operate in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Qatar.

Because Dubai was the only place in the whole Middle East where people of all religion lived together and did business together.

At that time there were no diplomatic relations between UAE and Israel so it was very difficult for Israeli citizens to to visit Dubai, but still the whole city was filled with Mossad Agents.

There was a huge demand of veteran Israeli soldiers in security firms and especially in energy and oil related companies.

There were even some subsidiary companies of Israel working in Dubai and Mossad was watching them closely.

And, one of these companies was logic Industries, headquartered in Tel Aviv the chairman of this company was Mati Kochavi, an Israeli businessman.

One day officer Uri makes a surprise visit to it's headquarters and had a long meeting with Kochavi.

And within days the logic industries hires a few Boeing 737 to send a few of its engineers and technicians and this flight arrives in Abu Dhabi from Tel Aviv via Cyprus.

For many days these technicians and engineers are kept in a safe house in Abu Dhabi. And one day when all of these engineers and technicians was sleeping four people were taken in out without making noise.

Next day, these four boys had become the directors of an investment company.

Actually these four men were none other than undercover Mossad Agents.

And Mossad had bought an investment company overnight and these men were made its directors.

Buying and selling of companies was a very common thing in Dubai and on top of that these four men has studied in United States and had United State's Passports.

It was this reason that none doubted them.

February 2007,

Dubai

As soon as Ezeedine lands in Dubai, Mossad's network gets activated.

The company that Ezeedine was meeting was secured by an Israeli ex-commando and this commando was an undercover Mossad Agent.

His codename Agent Brad.

This man lures Ezeedine in his words and tells him about this investment fund run by Mossad. He tells him that these four lads had a very good grasp over American Oil and Energy sector.

After listening the name of America, a sudden glint of evil shone in his eyes. Using Americans to make profits in dollars and then using this same money against Israel and America was like killing 3 birds with one stone.

And the hurriedly agrees to meet with this company's directors.

Back to August 2009,

Lebanon,

Ezeedine knew that a common Lebanese was not capable to do him anything but Hezbollah would never let him off the hook.

News of the Scam broke out like wildfire. The once mighty Salah Ezeedine was now begging his friends for help.

But the loss was so big that even if Bill Gates tried to help him even he would be helpless. This amount could've easily shaken the entire Federal Reserve.

After working his butt off, Ezeedine somehow got hold of a few foreign SIM cards and started to prepare for leaving the country secretly.

Salah Ezeedine was now given the title of Abu

Madoff. A term that was named after Bernie Madoff, American Fraudster who ran a multi-million dollar Ponzi Scheme.

Al Jazeera reported that the loss made by this scam was in Billions.

The scam was so big and had corroded Hezbollah to such an extent that even open threats was not able to stop media from reporting it.

Hezbollah's counter intelligence agents catch him before leaving Lebanon.

Next day a statement was released from Hezbollah claiming that he was never a part of the organisation. But it was a failed part of the damage control process.

People were asking, how can Hezbollah disown him when half the money invested in his company was of secretary general, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

People had started rebelling Hezbollah. They were asking why it was the common Lebanese man who lost everything and these leaders of Hezbollah still eating in lavish French style restaurant, driving around in Mercedes.

Why were their wives wearing thousands of dollars worth make-up and scarfs.

An online news portal, Now Lebanon published a report with the headline, "Ezzedine's face shows Hezbollah's moral bankruptcy".

Ezeedine was given a light sentence and was put into prison. Now hizbullah had entered in full damage control mode, they were telling the people that it was CIA and Mossad behind this scam.

But people didn't listen to their words and started removing flags of Hezbollah from their cars and houses which were, ironically, given to them by Hezbollah.

Firstly they had killed two Israeli soldiers and started war with Israel, which eventually ended in their defeat. Lebanon was struggling to get its economy back but now a man from Hezbollah had conned them of their wealth accumulated in these three years, painstakingly.

Every step was perfectly placed just like how Mossad Chief, Meir Dagan had planned.

September 2009,

Meir Dagan organized a small party at his house.

He had invited a number of massage agents and officers including officer Uri. And when four men wearing suits enter his house everybody present start clapping for them.

These were the four directors of that investment company in Dubai.

These were the men that had successfully conned Ezeedine.

After a while, Meir Dagan asks officer Uri,

Meir Dagan: How did we con the so easily.

Officer Uri chuckled and said,

Officer Uri: Sir, be it a businessman like Salah Ezeedine Or a commander like Sheik Nasarallah, they were not focused on radical Islam, neither the destruction of Israel but the only thing that matters for them is Money and this Greed of Money.

See you soon in Espionage stories' next episode.

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