{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6538ccdabc6f900012695107/655d4558571d6b0012dab712?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 429: Cocaine and Combat - How Hamas backers Hezbollah are funded by drug money","description":"<p>The eyes of the world have been on the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and what they might do as Israel pound Gaza on a mission to destroy Hamas.</p><p><br></p><p>But who are the Lebanese based group and what sort of war chest might they have should they intensify support for Hamas.</p><p><br></p><p>Nicola and Niall talk with Financial Times correspondent and author Miles Johnson whose recent book Chasing Shadows explores the relationship between Hezbollah and the cocaine trade. </p><p><br></p><p>They talk about the Kinahan organisation, money laundering and the money machine of terrorism.</p>","author_name":"Crime World"}