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when the back streets of Tripoli Joseph
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seriously the dividing line between the
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two warring communities grew employment
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of the weapons dealer who's finishing
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off the deal selling few grenades local
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fighters welcome to Tripoli Lebanon
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second city in a town being ripped apart
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by the war in neighboring Syria with the
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city divided between warring Sunni and
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Alawite Muslim communities Tripoli is a
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greater single flashpoint in Lebanon's
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increasingly fragile ethnic mix over 20
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years after the end of Lebanon's bitter
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Civil War the tiny countries on the edge
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of chaos once again Lebanon's Hezbollah
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controlled government is hated by the
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country's Sunni minority for intervening
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in the Assad regime's side and the war
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in Syria
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now the northern city is witnessing
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increasingly deadly clashes between
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Sunnis who support rebels and the
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Alawite neighbors who support the regime
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all watched helplessly for the weak
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Lebanese army tripping and Sunnis see
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what makes the situation so volatile the
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whole country has a watch with weapons
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the almost meaningless border with Syria
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next door and vast stockpiles left over
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from the Civil War the country increased
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nee resembles a giant weapons market if
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you've got enough money to buy anything
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you want my questions aren't so we went
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window shopping to see what's available
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welcome to the Great Lebanese arms
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bazaar it's an ordinary day in Tripoli
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and guns are everywhere like 90% of
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Tripoli's population these fighters are
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Sunni Muslims who live encircling an
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Alawite minority on the hill of Jabal
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Mohsen clashes between the two groups
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have left the city on the brink of chaos
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and the easy availability of automatic
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weapons and rocket-propelled grenades
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has left large chunk to the city looking
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like a war zone
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now most households have their own
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weapons and a whole new generations
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growing up learning how to use them
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little kids came over this weapons whoo
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all across the world can be found here
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with the ever-present martyrs posters a
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reminder of their deadly effect seventy
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percent of the population here lives
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beneath the poverty line with most
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families in Habana surviving on around
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three hundred dollars a month
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but despite the poverty the gun trade is
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big business I went to me Omar a Sunni
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fighter and small-time weapons dealer to
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find out how big is your weapons here
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Tracy yeah a dollar well I've never
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heard of us has of Allah who Nizam Sri
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devil messin who mr. Costain hmmm
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soutache Shenron
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but on this oh right there at BJ hey
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Diana
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Sheldon we have a message from Jabba
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Mason his domicile
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mashaallah I said I love had to stay
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right now Manu ahead known for I had
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nominal alpha hummus me dog
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you scratched rated serial number on it
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in there yeah machine ah Hui she mean
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elephant on his own
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you're a study a shuttle asset what I
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don't understand is there's no money in
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tadhana
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where do they find the money to buy
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these weapons animal a7 de la mia tuna
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CC no web and the Lamia tuna unique
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illuminant EE no mana masala understood
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is there instead in a coal mill this is
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yet why do you think these politicians
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are funding this why why they're giving
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him an experience cysteine I'm trauma
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sodium channel Lucia believe Nene at the
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bubble machine Yolo of Jennie Harvell
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given is a default of Lebanon the Haram
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hot rod
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anyway horrible Bashar be at Wilbur Shaw
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DNA Alberto Kurdish can have something
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else
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Alice or Helene else she's in here plus
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there I'm here too much more autumn a
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heavy double he the bot shear of the
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bottle Halloween bash - I mean photos
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levitate in Amanda Michelle amen
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Germany under Bashar Assad Bergman was a
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little hole at her work on she filleted
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Man Ray she Concha formal Sampson Sabine
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Blenheim stardom Disneyland Horeb Oh
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madnes
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become mad no national manish Lebanon's
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political system is almost entirely
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based on sectarian affiliation with
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parties representing the country's
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Sunnis Shias Christians ala whites and
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Druze if it was true that politicians in
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Beirut are flooding tripoli with weapons
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then Lebanon's politicians were playing
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a dangerous game in a country so divided
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on sectarian lines
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tripolis side streets are a no-go area
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for the army in these narrow alleyways
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weapons are readily available buying a
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gun here seems like buying drugs in the
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West and I just arranged a meeting with
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another sunni dealer few doors down is
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what you've got a few aks do you think
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every family in Savannah has a weapon
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nothing better no fish there so we had a
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little change a whole lot
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I mean where all the weapons coming from
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Java Hezbollah madhumathi
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she has all of it whatever sentiment oh
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yeah oh yeah woman will be there they
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have Myrtle I'm sure we stay and how
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turtle of the law how does a fig with
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the laws of another see his hide it have
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it on your side mmm
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you know nice Surya kind of a the wall
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order if a juror was a bad luck I mean
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it says gang all the ammo all the
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weapons for Jeb almost and the enemies
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are there but realistically a lot of its
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being brought in from politicians from
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their own side the different
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confessional factions in Lebanese
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politics flooding this place of weapons
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no they want to put pressure on the
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other side how old you uni first learn
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to use a gun Marshall think anomaly
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Bernard shallot idea I mean how much
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money would a fighter from two burners
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spend on weapons and ammunition every
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year gelila MA sure how helpful you've
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applied harmonica here on this was one
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house one fighter few aks pistol head of
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local ammo as a constant circulation of
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weaponry throughout the whole country so
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I hustled me out of his flat before the
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neighbors got suspicious and turned us
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in I'd asked him how buyers knew they
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were getting decent Goods so he insisted
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we go down to his shooting range where
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they test the kit before we agreeing on
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the deal Charlie passed an army
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checkpoint following the weapons dealers
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down to test the pistol the range turned
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out to be a passion wasteland near the
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beach I wasn't really sure what was
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going on
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was that the guitar
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my man hurt yeah pretty weird but it
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works now it's time to go with the army
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turn up just went down into stretch
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Reed's by let's see leads up few rounds
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the arm inside our
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for a country that's meant to be at
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peace the most striking thing about
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Lebanon is how openly weapons are
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carried it looks like Tripoli's become
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addicted to guns I spent most of my time
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in Tripoli hanging out with the Sunni
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militia commanders II and anuki Ziad
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controls the city's ancient suit and his
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security detail of tooled our kids is a
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closest thing to law and order here now
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Ziad wants to show off his personal
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armoury they have taken a celeb day trip
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something guys it spices in our car not
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sure about this
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make sure they're these are these are
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all on safety cash okay this is the
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dodgiest
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chocolate shot and let it down five five
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on fighters one come on then
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yeah okay the army don't care is that it
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is dry past and like waiver them they're
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doing it
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oh yeah bikini top energetic beach and
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Abney wanna be footman of a pleasurable
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oh sorry listen benobram banana I'm a
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general America lady
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it's crazy
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this is nice yeah very nice like a
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beachfront okay capito Friday afternoon
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come down to the beach with city
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militants get training no big deal one
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time in one month we come here shooting
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and sleepier me and my guys here if the
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m16 your favorite yes my favorite
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weapons here it's made in u.s. egg yeah
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okay
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so sometimes we like what we deliver
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face everything else not so much no sure
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everybody love democracy in any way
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anyway and the wall is it more accurate
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the m16 it's better than the classical
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and our wall street wall here is a
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Kalashnikov better for the m16 but the
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m16 here for sniper ziad's men may be
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imposing for their masters photos but
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the overall mood was of a nice day out
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but any day to Seaside
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raining so it's written Randolph
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even by Lebanese standards tripley's an
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unstable place but even in the capital
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Beirut the black-market arms trade is a
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booming industry Beirut's divided
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between sectors controlled by the
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different sectarian armed groups and
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Hezbollah being by far the most powerful
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force the Shia militia controls almost
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everything in Lebanon so to find out
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more about the country's arms bazaar we
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headed to the Shia suburb of Darya deep
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in Hezbollah controlled territory to
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meet a Hezbollah fighter an arms dealer
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Hezbollah's fighters a band from talking
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to the media so this was an incredible
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opportunity to find out more about the
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group's role in the weapons trade as
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long as we didn't get caught we're
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locked back room at the workshop
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somewhere in Beirut must be an arms
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dealer Wow okay let's look at what you
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got
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so ipk yes coke come on a and for 3,000
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3,000 yeah $1,000 no no yeah okay why
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they cheaper now than they were good
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luck talking like a hostage here good
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enough tell em my shaking yeah what kind
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of person is gonna wear by an RPK or an
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RPG and grenade launcher I would have
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known Adi it's really it's right there
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yeah
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yeah how'd you get this from Israel that
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a facility she followed our food the
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verifed cetera so no heroin Adam what
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had madam you know barato saying funny
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about this I mean proxy the US
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government is his US tax dollars sent to
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Israel it's military aid Israel invaded
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Lebanon Israel lost Hezbollah got this
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and now it's being sold somewhere in
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Beirut netic the Chi Minh Drusilla
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American air
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Brittani but once we heard of a vehicle
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is - hello
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what's your favorite weapon okay Oh
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Rachel Sarah Mallika Sharon we're
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pledging those who share how and upon
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the Russia bus no mobile on it karasuma
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five occasion this is a very sexy stay
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out yeah Austria 7000 so they've taken
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away their numbers hey who's your mama
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went to the Free Syrian Army and they
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ended up here with the opposite side
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pretty much seven thousand dollars seven
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seven I am pretty tempted well it's got
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a pretty impressive stock and that has
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one of his many shops it's got quite a
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few more around Beirut the sheer number
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and the sheer variety of weapons
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floating around his country was
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incredible
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my customers come but it's the way now I
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unleash our love you know man
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Halloween
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I mean every total weekend
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