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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 [[Syrian war|the insurgency against his regime that began in 2011]].  

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 [[Syrian war|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 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.

Fayad also served as a Ukrainian defense ministry adviser under former Ukrainian president [[Viktor Yanukvych]],<ref>https://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/leila-hatoum-intelligence-warfare-the-missing-czech-nationals/ </ref> 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.

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