Snook - The CIA's Most Wanted Explained

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

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Most people are familiar with the FBI's most wanted list. Faces on posters, public tips, and nationwide man hunts. But today, we're getting into a different list, a list most people never see. Because the CIA doesn't have a most wanted list. They keep a targets captured list. No bounties, no press, no warnings. Just silent pursuit until the target is either captured or eliminated. If the CIA targets you, it's not a question of if.

only when they'll take you out. Make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel. The channel's goal is 1 million subscribers. And without further ado, let's get into the CIA's Most Wanted Explained. And before we begin, a quick note, the CIA doesn't maintain a public most wanted list and anything current is classified. So in this video, we'll be covering individuals whose cases have been declassified, targets who have already been captured, exposed, or neutralized.

And these are the men. The CIA eventually let the world see. Raphael Caro Quintero. Rafael Caro Quintero, or Rafa, for short, was a Mexican drug trafficker in the 70s and 80s. He was long described as the co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel and as one of the godfathers of the modern Mexican drug trade. Let's call it the G cartel for short, considering just how hard the name is to say over and over again. The G cartel was one of the first ever cartels to traffic booger sugar and cannabis into the U.S. in the late 70s.

But having a big cartel and title like the Godfather isn't enough for the CIA to come after you. You'd barely be a speck on their radar. The DEA, on the other hand, would be very interested in talking to you, but, That's where it all went south. Rafa was born on the 24th of October, 1952 in La Norea, a tiny village buried in a region full of major drug traffickers. He was the oldest of 12 children. His father was a farmer that died when Rafa was just 14 years old. He worked with his mother to take care of his family, becoming the next head of the house.

Two years later, he left the village and settled down in Kabarakha, a bigger town, where he became a rancher. Through all this time, he claimed his highest level of education was the first year of primary school. He worked as a rancher for another two years before he met Pedro Avelas Perez at 18. At this time, he had been working as a truck driver for a while, as well as other odd jobs, such as working in a bean and corn plantation, anything to make ends meet. Pedro was a Mexican drug trafficker that taught him the art of planting marijuana. And so Rafa used some of his. family's land to do so. But eventually he left his home state altogether to join the drug trade in Chihuahua. Carrow grew more and more marijuana on his brother's ranch, before earning enough to

buy several other ranches in the surrounding areas, becoming richer, as well as becoming a lot more powerful. Soon enough, he formed the G-cartel, with a few others in the late 70s. This cartel pioneered the drug trade. It was the first to do it, before almost anyone else on such much a large scale. He began trafficking drugs into the U.S., and in only a few years, was being described in Mexican media as one of the narco de narcos. He expanded the cartel even further, building the huge Rancho-Buffalo weed plantation in Chihuahua, estimated to be around 1,000 hectare acres, roughly the size of an entire small town. This massive plantation would be used to produce billions of dollars worth of marijuana.

It wasn't very long lived, though. On November 14, 1984, over 450 Mexican soldiers raided the ranch. They were acting on DEA intelligence and were armed, had helicopters, and successfully achieved their objective of seizing and burning the G cartel's product, wiping out four to five thousand metric tons of marijuana. That's the same way it has around a thousand fully grown elephants. This was marijuana worth several billion dollars. That's back in the early 80s.

That'd be worth around $10 billion now. Rafa was angry. His beautiful ranch and marijuana all burnt to the ground. He wasn't just going to sit there and take it, and so he made possibly the worst decision that secured his fate. Remember how I said that simply being a drug lord isn't enough to get yourself on the CIA's radar? Well, Rafa's following actions was more than enough. for the CIA to step in.

He retaliated against the DEA, by abducting undercover DEA agent Enrique Kiki Kiki Kamerana in broad daylight. If there's one thing, governmental agencies hate more than drug lords, it's public humiliation. Another DEA agent was abducted on the same day, a pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avalar,

who was flying reconnaissance. This all took place on the afternoon of February 7, 1985. The abducted agents were taken to the heart of the cartel city of Guadalajara, the house proudly owned by Rafael Caro Quintero. The agents were tortured for an agonizing 30 whole hours before being murdered. Their bodies were found a month later on March 5th, wrapped in plastic, buried in a shallow grave. In this launched, the DEA's largest homicide investigation to date, Operation Leanda.

He was eventually arrested for the first of many times on April 4, 1985. But how? Well, the DAA wasn't working alone. As it turns out, the CIA had kept tabs on Rafa for a while, but right after the kidnapping, they went all out. They gathered as much information on Rafa as possible to capture and arrest him. Information the D.E.A. would have never been able to get on their own.

Once he'd been arrested, the CIA never took him off their radar. A year later, on January 12, 1986, they made a surprise. Forceful search on Rafa's prison. They seized electrical appliances, jewels, and money, which added up to over 300 million pesos, worth almost 50 million U.S. dollars today. The authorities blamed the guards for the corruption, and the guards blamed the authorities. He was extradited to Mexico on charges of murdering a DEA agent and sentenced to 199 years in prison for his crime.

The USA still has him listed as a wanted fugitive, waiting for their chance to put him on trial and sentenced him their way. He was transferred from prison to prison, all while continuing to run his criminal enterprise from behind bars. He created money laundering fronts with gas stations, construction companies, shoe factories, restaurants, real estate, and much, much more. He was tossed around justice systems, and finally, on February 27, 2025, the Mexican government sent him to the United States of America, so that they could finally have their day in court. The CIA, DEA, and DOJ will all be prosecuting Rafael Carl Quintero for his crimes. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Abd al-Nahim Hussein Mohammed Abdul al-Nashiri, well, that's a mouthful, was born on January 5th,

1965 at Mecca. He is one of the most notorious individuals out there, being accused for the bombing of the USS Cole and other maritime attacks. He's also suspected of heading al-Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf region, but in his case, the CIA's treatment of him is also criminal in nature. Although he was born in 1965, it was only when he was in his late 20s that he started taking action. He moved to Afghanistan in the early 90s to participate in his attacks against the Russians in the region, with the USA supporting the Muha Hadin's actions at the time. In 1996, he ended up meeting Osama bin Laden for the first time.

It was here that bin Laden tried convincing him to join al-Qaeda, but Al-Nasuri refused because, as it turned out, he found the idea of swearing a loyalty oath to bin Laden as distasteful. He then traveled to his home in Yemen, where he first started getting the ideas for his first operation. These ideas came to shape after he started noticing many U.S. and other foreign ships along the southwest coast of Yemen. He went back to Afghanistan a year later,

and this is when he started to take serious action. Nasirin met bin Laden again, but declined to join his group still, instead fighting with the Taliban against the Afghan Northern Alliance and assisted in the smuggling of four anti-tank missiles into Saudi Arabia. He also arranged for a tank to get a Yemeni passport. His cousin was subsequently identified to be one of the S-word bombers in the 1998 U.S. Bissie bombings in Kenya.

It was the same year that Nashiri finally joined Al-Qaeda, reporting directly to bin Laden. It was nearing the end of the year, 1998. Nashiri planned to attack a U.S. vessel with a boat full of explosives, and bin Laden personally approved of this plan, completely funding it. Nashiree first tried to attack the USS, the civilians, as a part of the infamous 2000-millenium attack plots. But the boat he used for this was way over. overloaded with explosives and started sinking.

His next plan, however, was successful. The USS coal bombing killed 17 U.S. sailors, injuring several others. He rose up the ranks in al-Qaeda, becoming the chief of operations for the Arabian Peninsula. He organized the Limburg tanker bombing in 2002, a French ship off the coast of Yemen, and has been part of several other attacks. And the CIA had enough. In November 2002, he was captured in Dubai by the CIA, more notably their SAD or Special Activities Division. Once Al Nashri was captured, the CIA used various means of torture to get a confession out of him,

specifically waterboarding him. All other forms of torture were redacted from the public record. During his trial in Nashiree's opening statements, he said all the confessions were false, including the French vessel Limburg incident, the USS Coal bombing, the rockets in Saudi Arabia, the plots bomb American ships in the Persian Gulf, relationships with people committing bombings in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden having a nuclear bomb,

and finally a plan to hijack a plane and crash it into a ship. He claimed he faked everything to get out of being tortured, and finally, the true details of his interrogation came to light. They slammed him against a wall, shoved him into a small box, waterboarded him, deprived him of, sleep in clothes and threaten to turn him over to others who would no doubt murder him or torture

him or worse. They would verbally humiliate him and destroy his dignity. He was thrown around between CIA black sides until they finally got what they wanted out of him. Eventually, the charges were dropped, picked up, countersuits are filed, and the case is still ongoing to this day. Abdullah Ocelan. Abdula Ocelan, also known as Apo, was born in 1949, in Southeast Turkey. His mother was Turkish, while his father was Kurdish, a minority that was often looked down upon. He was born to a peasant family in a village, having vague political dreams when he was younger. He tried enlisting in the military but was refused. He claimed it was due to part of his ethnicity. Ochalan enrolled in university where he studied political

science. It was here that Ocelon embraced Marxism and voiced left-wing sentiments. He organized several student movements and handed out leftist brochures, but was imprisoned for this. This forced him to then drop out and return to his village. In southeastern Turkey, where he began advocating for an independent Kurdish state. By 1977, Ojalan and two comrades wrote a manifesto, the National Road to the Kurdish Revolution, with this being the blueprint for their political party. The Kurdishin Workers' Party were the PKK for short. In 1979, unrest in Turkey forced Ocelon and his associates to flee to Syria, where they began training to form the core of the PKK.

It took them seven years, but in 1984, they began an armed campaign for a Kurdish state by attacking a pro-government village in Southeast Turkey. Their operations expanded all across Southeast Turkey, including ambushes on military patrols, attacking village guards, bombings in cities. The Turkish state responded with a large scale. counterinsurgency campaign, village evacuations, and widespread human rights abuses. Over 30,000 to 40,000 people died by the late 1990s, many of them being Kurdish civilians. By this time, Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union designated the PKK as a terrorist organization, holding Ocelan personally responsible for terrorist attacks, becoming Turkey's most wanted fugitive.

But through this, there were attempts at remedying the situation. In 1993, the first ceasefire was announced, but collapsed later that year after the Turkish president was assassinated. Both sides blamed each other, and the hell continued until the mid-1990s, where he went back to his base in Syria, overseeing the movement's political and military structure all while living safely and comfortably under Syrian protection. This wouldn't last long, though, as Turkey threatens Syria with military. military action if they didn't expel Ocelon, and if they didn't stop supporting the PKK,

leading to the 1998-Undana agreement, where Syria finally kicked him out of the country. He immediately started searching for a new safe haven, practically touring Europe while doing so. He first went to Moscow, a Russian Duma committee initially voted to grant him asylum, but the government didn't want to formally approve it, with Turkey and the U.S. pressuring them not to do so, so he was forced to look somewhere else. Italy was next, arriving in Rome with a forged passport. The Italian authorities arrested him on an international warrant, but placed him on house arrest in a hospital.

Turkey requested Italy to extradit him, but Italy refused as the death penalty is enforcing Turkey, and Italy was bound by European human rights standards. Rome couldn't find anyone else to take him, so for the next couple months, he was stuck in Italy. They wouldn't let him leave, but they wouldn't extradite him either. Eventually, the diplomatic, pressure and lack of illegal framework forced Italy to release him, where he went to Greece. He was sent from Greece to Kenya to escape European scrutiny, where he was arranged to be brought

to the Greek embassy in Kenya, the worst possible option. You might recall I mentioned earlier that it was around this time Al-Nas-Sherie's cousin was identified as an S-word bomber. The bombing was at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. The country was crawling with U.S. intelligence and special forces. And all this time, the CIA had been waiting to pounce. While he was in Europe, it would have been too risky for them to make a move. He was deep in a legal rabbit hole with way too many countries involved. If anything went wrong, it could destroy U.S.-Europe relations and cause more harm. But when Greece took him in, it gave the U.S. and Turkey an opening to launch their operations. As soon as he landed in Kenya, the Greek embassy was placed under surveillance. His

cell phones were tapped, monitoring his conversations with political contacts as he seeked asylum. He was abducted in Kenya while on his way from the Greek embassy to the airport in Kenya, an operation carried out by the CIA in the Turkish National Intelligence Organization. His trial was rigged from the start, with many people suspecting heavy CIA involvement and manipulation. His lawyers weren't allowed to meet him, and he wasn't allowed to meet his lawyers. He was interrogated for 10 days without legal counsel, and even the judge took part in his interrogation. Eventually, after a completely unfair legal battle, he was sentenced to death for treason and separatism, also being banned from holding public office for life.

His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, but some argue. That's much worse. Carlos the Jackal Alic Ramirez Sanchez, or better known as Carlos the Jackal, was born on the 12th of October, 1949. Carlos was the son of a Marxist lawyer, Jose Altagracia Ramirez Navas. He was named a leech after Vladimir Ilich Lenin,

a prominent Marxist activist and head of government of Soviet Russia, someone that Carlos' father clearly looked up to. He named his other children Lenin and Vladimir. Considering this, Carlos grew up in a very political environment in Venezuela. He joined the youth movement of the Venezuelan Communist Party and even spent summer camp at Camp Montanzas, a guerrilla warfare school run by the Cuban Intelligence Directorate, basically Cuba's version of the CIA. The same year, his parents divorced. His mother took him to London, where she tried to enroll him to the University of Paris,

but eventually he ended up at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. At the time, it was considered a Natura, notorious hotbed for recruiting foreign communists to the Soviet Union. Put simply, it was a political warfare program. Two years later, though, in 1970, he was expelled from the university. If you managed to get yourself suspended from a school that's meant to radicalize you and prepare you to serve for the Soviet Union through espionage, sabotage, propaganda, and even assassination, something must be wrong with you. Shortly after being expelled, he volunteered for the popular front of the Liberation or the PFLP of Palestine and was sent to a training camp.

Once he graduated, he studied at a finishing school, codenamed H4, stabbed entirely by Iraqi military near the Syria-Iraq border. And you can slowly see where this is going, being tossed around a political environment, learning and growing under extremely radical political teachings. He was given the name Carlos de Jekyll during his time at the PFF. after a recruiting officer gave him the codename Carlos, considering his South American roots. And he was consistently called the Jackal after the Guardian. The news outlet found a copy of the novel, The Day of the Jackal, in one of Carlos' old apartments. They then released a headline calling him Carlos the Jackal and the rest was history.

Once he completed guerrilla training, Carlos played an active role for the PFLP in North Jordan. during the Black September conflict of 1970. The Black September conflict is often called the Jordanian Civil War and was an armed conflict between the PFLP and the King of Jordan, King Hussein. He built his reputation as a fighter during this conflict and was sent for even further training. Eventually, he left the Middle East and attended the Polytechnic of Central London, now known as the University of Westminster, while still working for the PFLP. Three years later, 1973, he carried out his first assassination on Joseph Saif, a Jewish businessman and vice president of the British Zionist Federation.

It was on the 30th of December, Carlos called Joseph's home and ordered Joseph's maid to take him to Joseph. Carlos found Joseph in the bathroom, in his bath, and fired one bullet which bounced off Joseph just between his nose and upper lip. knocking Joseph unconscious, but didn't kill him. The Tulkaroff, 762 millimeter pistol, subsequently jammed, forcing Carlos to flee the scene. The attack was announced as a retaliation for the Mossad's assassination in Paris of Muhammad Boudia, a leader of the PFLP. This was the first of many failures Carlos faced. He also admitted responsibility for a failed bomb attack on the bank Hapo Alim in London.

His next attack, however, being the car bomb attacks on three French news outlets, accused of being pro-Israel. He also claimed to be the grenade thrower at a French restaurant, which ended up killing two people and injuring 30. This was a part of the 1974 French embassy attack in the Hog, which took place in the Netherlands. He also took part in two failed rocket-propelled grenade attacks on Israeli aeroplanes at the Orly Airport near Pais. Paris in January 1975. The second attack led to a gunfight with the police at the airport and a 17-hour hostage standoff. It involved hundreds of riot police in the French Interior Minister.

Carlos fled during the gunfight, while the other PFLP terrorists were allowed to Baghdad Iraq. By now, government agencies internationally were starting to take notice, including the FBI and the CIA. In June 1975, one of Carlos' contacts were captured, Michelle Morcaab, being interrogated by French intelligence. He told the agents that during a Parisian house party, two unarmed agents began interrogating Carlos, where he shot and killed them, escaping to Beirut. This catapulted Carlos to the top of the French and international wanted lists. In Barut, he planned out the attack on the headquarters of OPEC, the organization.

of the petroleum exporting countries in Vienna. On the 21st of December, 1975, a six-person team was led by Carlos, which attacked a meeting which had all the major OPEC leaders present. More than 60 hostages were taken, with three being killed. In Austrian policemen, an Iraqi OPEC employee, and a member of the Libyan delegation. Carlos' demands, Austrian authorities read a common okay about the U. Palestinian cause on Austrian radio and television networks every two hours to avoid the threatened execution of a hostage every 15 minutes. The Austrian government agreed in the

common decay was broadcasted as demanded. A day later, on the 22nd of December, the government provided PFLP and 42 hostages in airplane, which took them to Algeria, Libya, and back to Algeria, where many terrorists were granted asylum, and hostages were freed. Soon after, however, a fellow PFLP agent accused Carlos of having received a large sum of money, somewhere around $20 million to $50 million, for the release of Arab hostages. Carlos claimed that it was the money paid by the Saudis on behalf of the Iranians and was diverted in route and lost by the revolution. Carlos then left Algeria and attended a meeting of senior PFLP officials to justify his failure in executing two senior OPEC hostages, them being the finance minister of Iran and the oil minister of Saudi Arabia.

They eventually decided that he failed the mission and expelled him. A bounty was then put on his head. With four men traveling to Tehran in 1976 to kill Carlos, but it was never revealed what happened in those meetings. Not long after, Carlos attempted to build his own independent network, called the Organization of Ahmed Arab Struggle, but this didn't last long. Years passed as he tried and failed to set up his organization, which resulted in the Syrian government forcing to expel him. He searched for over two years, trying to find a country where he could seek asylum when he settled in Sudan. But by this time, enough was enough. In 1993, CIA contractor Billy Waugh was tasked with finding Carlos and arresting him.

They searched for four months, managing to identify a man who was working as a bodyguard for Carlos and watched him until the bodyguard led them to Carlos's apartment on the 8th of February, 1994. They established an observation post in an abandoned hospital across the street and watched him for another four months, eventually handing their intel to French intelligence. French intelligence offered the Sudanese government tons of communication equipment and supplied them with satellite pictures of everything they needed. The Sudanese foreign minister was invited to Paris to negotiate the extradition of Carlos, but he was adamant that his culture forbade him from giving up a guest in his country.

But eventually, they convinced him. All it took to give up Carlos was the promise of World Bank and IMFA to help ease their foreign debt, as well as videos and photos of Carlos partying, drinking, and being intimate with women, which offended their Muslim faith. In the eyes of the foreign minister, Carlos turned from a combatant, someone who fought for the Palestinian cause, to a hoodlum. His trial stretched on until the 23rd of December, 1997, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and later two more life sentences were added. Through the years, Carlos has continuously voiced his support for Osama bin Laden and his attacks on the United States.

Pablo Escobar He's one of the most infamous drug lords out there. While the world frowns upon him, the streets of Medellin cheers name. Born on the 1st of December in Rio Negro, Colombia, Pablo Escobar was dealt a rough hand, being born in poverty among six other siblings. He struggled hard. Life wasn't easy for him on the streets, with him leaving to be with his cousin when he was just 17. Coming back a couple years later, he decided to start the first of many criminal activities,

just to make some money, creating and selling fake high school diplomas. Unknowing to him, this would be the first of many, many illegal activities he'd carry out. He dropped out not long after, continuing to sell even more butcher diplomas now that he was out of high school, with this being the small start to what ended up being one of the world's most illegal industries to date. After high school, Eskavar didn't give up on its education just yet. He went to college. His goal is set to be a criminal lawyer, a politician, and eventually, El Presidente. His goals were ambitious, but he worked hard.

Sadly, that wasn't enough. As hard as he worked, he was forced to drop out because of his poverty. He couldn't pay for his education, marking the beginning of his criminal career. Not being able to put food on the table and knowing no other way to make ends meet other than all of the illegal happenings he'd been exposed to ever since he was a kid, Asgabar began his illegal activities almost immediately after dropping out of the University of Autonomia Latino Americana and started a wide range of criminal activities. Starting small, Escobar sold illegal cigarettes and fake lottery tickets.

He took tombstones, sandblasted their inscriptions, and resold them. Compared to his more well-known drug empire, this was pretty tame. However, his way of life turned from a life of harmless crime to violent acts pretty quickly. Soon enough, Escobar knew his way around the streets and started joining gangs to seal cars off the road. They went around in gangs and groups to commit motor vehicle theft. but his connections and actions raised him up in the food chain. Controlling these gangs, his crimes became more violent, employing criminals. He sent them to kidnap various people who owned him and demanded ransoms.

Escobar's gang started becoming notorious for kidnapping and demanding ransoms from people. But their name and reputation was very well known after kidnapping and killing Diego Echeveria, a famous local businessman. The family of Diego paid Escobar $50,000, putting his and his gang's name on the map. For about a decade now, Escobar was smooth sailing. With him being involved in leading an organized crime for this long, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. Until it did. At this point in time, around 1975, Booger Sugar trade was on the rise.

Escobar saw this and thought nothing of it, jumping on the train, trafficking, Bougar Sugar. throughout South America. But he was rising and growing too fast. Colombian authorities finally caught wind of his activities and caught him trafficking almost 40 kilograms of booger sugar in his spare tire through Ecuador. Things were over. He was arrested in May, 1976, returning from Ecuador.

However, things didn't quite play out in the way the Colombian Security Services or DAS thought it would. After getting the first judge removed from the lawsuit, he bribed the second judge for a verdict. in his favor, and he and all the other prisoners involved were let go. Simple as that. This is when he learned the power that money holds. He bribed tons of officials and politicians to gain more and more power in control,

giving them the carrot or the stick, or as he put it, silver or lead. It was as simple as you accept the bribes, you get paid. If you reject them, you get a good. assassinated. This was his intimidation method. With money, he could do anything. Nobody could stand in his way. If they did, they'd either move aside for the cash, or he'd force them to. Soon he realized the true potential he held. So he put his plan into motion, bribing several Colombian politicians, he had them in his pocket, both conservative and liberal parties. His goal was in power, yet it was self-preservation, safety, and ensuring the law wouldn't be an issue to him ever again.

Finally, every politician he had in his pocket was elected, giving him access to almost every level of the Colombian government, pulling strings like he was playing puppets. In fact, he was doing just that. Now that he had taken care of the authorities, it was time for him to get moving on the ever-increasing booger-sugar-sugar trade, unknowing to Escobar would be one of the final nails. in the Coffin Forum. In April 1978, he met with drug lords, speaking with them about what was most likely trafficking booger sugar. This was later confirmed when around 19,000 kilograms, or 190 tons of booger sugar entered U.S. soil and territory, and from here on out, it was exponential growth. Demand for booger sugar in the United States was higher than ever, so naturally,

Eskabar did what he had to do with the supply. After the first trade of 190 tons, the Medellin cartel expanded rapidly. More shipments were used for smuggling, more routes were created, and more main entry points into the U.S. were formed in California, South Florida, and Puerto Rico, with other parts of the country being used as well. Later, Escobar and his cartel, co-founder Carlos LeHare, worked on a new transshipment point on an island in the Bahamas, known as Norman's K. It was about 220 miles southeast from the coast of Florida. However, Escobar never bought this island.

Lader had it as his own solo venture. Well, Escobar transformed it into a paradise for both luxury and trafficking, Booger Sugar, into the United States. Escobar bought most of the land on the island, which had a one-kilometer airstrip constructed, a harbor, hotels, houses, boats, aircrafts, and a massive refrigerated warehouse to store, well, guess what, booger sugar. For the next four years, this was the route mainly used by the Medellin cartel.

It was efficient and got the job done right. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in profit, which he used to buy over 20 square kilometers of land in Antigua to build his hacienda. This mansion had a zonement. zoo, a private lake, a sculpture garden, and tons of other amenities for his family and members of the cartel to enjoy. This was the height of his wealth, controlling 80% of the global booger sugar supply from mainly that single island, raking in hundreds of millions in net profit every single week. He was a billionaire. Compared to today, he would be in the top 25 richest people

in the world, the wealth he gained from his drug trade had made him unstoppable. With almost infinite resources, he could accomplish anything, even doing the government's job for them. The power he held over one of the strongest world governments and even puppeteering his own government is something completely unprecedented and something that will most likely never be able to happen again. As far as he had come, he didn't forget his roots. He financed the development of several Medaheen's poverty-stricken neighborhoods and built housing, schools, hospitals, churches, and football stadiums. In 1980, he joined politics, something he had been dreaming for since high school. He was involved and supported in the formation of the Liberal Party of Columbia, and two years later

ended up getting into the Colombian Congress. This was not a plan or a ploy for his cartel or drug empire. Escobar knew he had to do right by his people and wanted to make real changes to his homeland. He was granted parliamentary immunity and the right to a diplomatic passport, and was very well known for all of his charities and his philanthropic nature. The public loved

him. He felt like a king, and he might as well have been one. He was in the perfect position he'd been dreaming of since day one. Nothing could stop him now. Everything was smooth sailing from here on out, or so he

thought. But his entry into politics would be cut short from day one, when the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Benilia, had accused him of illegal activities on his first day in Congress. Things were looking bad for Escobar. As the subordinates of Lara Benilia started investigating his arrest for the 39 kilos of Booker Shruger smuggled and trafficked in from Ecuador, and only a couple months after the investigation started, the Liberal Party leader expelled him from the party. Escobar fought back denying the accusations, but to no result. He announced his retirement from politics just four years after it started in January of 1984.

Lara Benelia was assassinated three months later. Escobar was wanted, and while bribing and murdering worked everywhere else, he couldn't get his control over the Colombian judiciary. In the fall of 85, bribing and murdering several judges, Escobar requested the government for a conditional surrender, where he wouldn't be extradited to the United States. This was denied at first. However, after forming an organization known as the Los Extra Deipal Organization,

he created to fight the extradition policy in Colombia near the end of 86. The policy was declared illegal as being signed by a presidential delegation, not the president himself. Since the president at the time did not sign it himself, the policy was declared illegal and Escobar had won over the judiciary. However, soon enough, the new president had put the decision on review, with his victory being short-lived at best. However, Escobar had moved past that, still holding a grudge against the Liberal Party leader, to which he had him assassinated for kicking him out of the party and politics as a whole. But that wasn't the end.

He wanted to cripple the party. The leader's next in line was scheduled for a flight on 18th of August, 1989, on which a bomb was planted. Avincia Flight 203 was destroyed, with all 107 people on board dying, except for one man, the successor to the Liberal Party leader, who survived as he had missed the plane. His life was intact, but only by chance and luck. Escobar had murdered 107 innocent people, among which were two American nationals, and this is when the American government had decided to intervene directly. After this tragedy, the president's administration at the time moved against Escobar and associated drug cartels.

After negotiations with the government, Escobar agreed to surrender and cease all criminal activity in exchange for a reduced sentence and preferential treatment. Escobar gave himself up to authorities in 1991, and with the new constitution passed the same year, he was not extradited to the U.S. While the act was highly controversial at the time due to people speculating whether Escobar, along with several other drug lords, with power within the government, had forced their hand. Askebar was relaxing in his own luxurious private prison, which was better than most people's homes. Serving time in La Cattadereal, he had a football pitch, a giant dollhouse, a bar, a jacuzzi, and even an entire waterfall.

However, reports that he kept his criminal enterprise going were surfacing. Public outcry started to pile up. and because of this the Colombian government was forced to move Escobar into a traditional prison, one with bars on the cells and metal trays for food. But Escobar knew what was coming, and being prepared for this was an understatement. Pablo Escobar proceeded to make one of the greatest prison escapes ever known to man, even to this day. When Special Forces raided the prison, he held two VIPs who came along as hostages, then shut off the power.

The army was in the dark, unable to shoot or see. For 12 hours, they remained in the prison, while Escobar had escaped ages ago into the forest, humiliating the government. And from here on out, he was on the run. Wanted by the Colombian government, the United States government, and under siege from a rival cartel,

everywhere Escobar turned was an enemy. All this while, however, the CIA was a enemy. the CIA was at just as big as a loss as Escobar. They'd spent hundreds of millions of dollars on finding him, and now they're cooperating with two different militaries, as well as an entirely separate special task force created with the sole purpose of finding and capturing or killing Escobar. Search Block was an ad hoc special operations unit of the National Police of Columbia.

It had over 600 members trained by the United States and Colombian Army, a special task force designated to locate and disassemble cartels and their leaders. They were heavily assisted by the CIA in triangulating his position, tapping radio and phone calls, feeding intel to the search block, resorting to desperate measures at certain times, hiding in tents, burning millions of dollars in cash to stay warm, Eskabar was still a notorious daredevil, as while the entirety of the United States

America were looking for him in a nationwide manhunt, he posed in front of the White House with his son. However, finally, in December 1993, he was found in a middle-class home in suburban Medellin by Colombian authorities

with the help of the intel the CIA gave them, where a shootout started between Escobar and the CIA Special Forces. He was trapped, cornered, And for once, he'd been outsmarted and outgunned. Survival was the only objective for him at that point.

He had to do something. He couldn't just let it all go. He refused to give it up. He had to escape. And then he saw his one chance. Using the last of his strength, he tried to get up on the roof, but it was too late. Escobar was shot and died, almost as soon as he trampled onto the roof. His death in funeral was widespread news, with over 25,000 people attending his funeral

simply due to the impact he made on his people with all his positive changes to the nation, despite his nefarious crimes. This ended the chapter of the world's most dangerous and powerful drug lords. Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, one of history's most notorious terrorist and criminals of all time. Everyone knows just how nefarious he was.

He needs no introduction. Instead, I'm going to directly jump into how the CIA killed him, one of their hardest targets to find and kill ever. But before doing that, here's a long laundry list of his axe. He played a key and important role in the Soviet-Afghan War. He was alleged to be involved in the 1988 Gilgit Massacre. He created al-Qaeda, one of the world's worst terrorist. terrorist organizations ever, was part of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the Gulf War, was expelled

from Saudi Arabia, declared war on America, directed hundreds of terrorist attacks globally, did 9-11, and that was the trigger for the CIA. They began sending troops to Afghanistan to interrogate the Taliban and capture al-Qaeda operatives. The Special Activities Division was leading the investigation, and the target was clear. Osama bin Laden was wanted, captured or killed. By 2005, it was made clear that bin Laden was in Pakistan, so they began capturing more and more operatives.

Their goal was to find people who had information on top al-Qaeda leadership, those who could give up someone who was close to bin Laden. And just when they thought they were getting closer, bin Laden would release time-sensitive videos confirming his survival, almost taunting the CIA. It was an unstoppable force against an immovable object. The CIA was tasked with using any means necessary. Hundreds, if not thousands of CIA black sites were used all over the world

to torture and interrogate al-Qaeda operatives. They would leave these people without food or water for days, stringing their life long hours at a time, manipulating them physically and mentally. The CIA soon realized the focus of the investigation was to be centered, on couriers for al-Qaeda, seen as these couriers were the ones who would provide communications for bin Laden. In 2002, interrogators had heard about an al-Qaeda courier who was part of the inner circle. In this courier, led the CIA directly to Osama bin Laden. Eventually, bin Laden was

traced to a mansion near the border of Pakistan, and this is where they conducted an extremely risky operation. The intel was not 100% accurate. In the mansion was nothing short of a fortress. On May 2nd, 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear. Personally approved by Barack Obama, two dozen Navy SEALs and two Blackhawks took flight to Jalalabad in Afghan City over 120 miles away. The compound stuck out like a sore thumb to the houses nearby, had a huge wall running across the perimeter, with designs being perfect to hide itself from satellites and any other surveillance. It had no internet, no landline, all garbage was burned and nobody was let inside. The CIA tried several times, sending in

operatives under disguise to try and confirm Bin Laden's presence, but failed in all attempts. It was a strong lead. It wasn't sure fire, but it was all they had. This is what 10 and a half years of investigation from one of the world's most dangerous and powerful intelligence agencies had come up with navy seal team six infiltrated the compound cleared it of all residents before finally osama bin laden was shot and killed they cleared out the house taking as much evidence as possible and exfiltated and all right guys that wraps up the cia's most wanted to explain i'm sorry this video wasn't like the FBI top 10. The only issue is the CIA doesn't keep a top 10. They are no surprise, super secretive about everything. So yeah, this was the most famous cases of the most wanted people by the CIA.

And I thought it was a unique video. I haven't seen that on YouTube yet, so I hope you enjoyed. And if you'd like to see an FBI most wanted to explain, comment down below. Maybe I'll make one of these every single year and cover some new people that came out from the CIA. I don't know. It could be interesting. Just comment down below if you enjoyed this. video and if you did please like the video and subscribe to the channel it helps more than you know thank you so much for watching the end of the video it means the world and um listen to me on spotify uh join the patreon for early access and um thank you so much for watching i appreciate you all and this is snook and i'll see next time bye