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One of the most impor­tant and least pub­li­cized play­ers in the tan­gled world of weapons and drug traf­fick­ing, ter­ror­ism and espi­onage is Monzer Al-Kassar. A key player in the Iran-Contra Scan­dal, Al-Kassar imports 20 % of the heroin that comes to the United States (accord­ing to the DEA) and has appar­ently fig­ured promi­nently in numer­ous ter­ror­ist inci­dents. This pro­gram sets forth alle­ga­tions of pos­si­ble involve­ment by Al-Kassar in two ter­ror bomb­ings in Argentina, as well as his con­nec­tions to the late Alfredo Yabran, a Mafia-like wheeler dealer who (like Al-Kassar) had strong con­nec­tions to the gov­ern­ment of Argentina. Argen­tine pres­i­dent Car­los Menem, Yabran and Al-Kassar are all from the same town in Syria. In addi­tion, the pro­gram con­tains infor­ma­tion about inter­na­tional con­nec­tions to the AMIA bomb­ing (one of the bomb­ings Al-Kassar was allegedly involved with), the mys­te­ri­ous “sui­cide” of Yabran, Yabran’s con­nec­tions to for­mer U.S. Ambas­sador Ter­rence Tod­man, who assisted with Yaban’s finan­cial machi­na­tions and also inter­ceded with the U.S. Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion on Yabran’s behalf. The con­clu­sion of the pro­gram deals with Yabran asso­ciate Wences­lao Bunge, a Harvard-educated lawyer who is appar­ently part of the Bunge fam­ily that has been piv­otally involved with Bunge and Born. One of the world’s largest com­modi­ties bro­kers, Bunge & Born fig­ured promi­nently in an intri­cate stock mar­ket manip­u­la­tion that was appar­ently con­nected to the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.