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Salah Ezzedine, "Lebanese Bernie Madoff," Humiliates Hezbollah

Hezbollah Embarrassed By 'Lebanese Madoff'
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TURA, Lebanon -- The investor, a heavyset man in a gray polo shirt, sat back in a plastic chair in his hardware store and sighed, unable to explain how his life savings had vanished so quickly into thin air.

"It's a disaster, a tsunami," he said. "Some farmers mortgaged their fields and brought in cash. Others sold land they had inherited from their parents. Teachers gave up all their savings. Old people lost everything they had."

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