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====Ali Fayad====
====Ali Fayad====
(aka Fayyad). [[Ukraine]]-based arms merchant suspected of being a Hezbollah operative moving large amounts of weapons to [[Syria]].
(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, 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, worked for the state-owned arms exporter Ukrspecexport and appeared to have taken Viktor Anatolyevich Bout place as Vladomir Putin’s go-to arms merchant. Bout was convicted of conspiracy to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to Colombian narcoterrorists.
==See also==
==See also==