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According to the manifest, two men with U.S. passports, Michael Taylor and George Zayek were the only passengers on the flight from Osaka to Istanbul. The two men then took a commercial flight from Istanbul to Beirut via Turkish passport checks on arrival and departure. There is a former U.S. Army Green Beret named Michael Taylor who is well known in the small, insular world of private security contractors. Taylor is perhaps best known for extracting reporter David Rohde from the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. A man calling himself George Zayek has been a security employee at companies either owned by or linked to Taylor.

The operation to extract Ghosn is believed to have started on December 28 in Dubai. That is where Taylor and Zayek boarded the Global Express jet that was used the next day to smuggle Ghosn out of Japan. Both men's names were on the flight manifest for the red-eye to Japan. They were carrying two large black cases.

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It was believed that Ghosn left his home inside of a music box after a party. However, Japanese investigators reviewed surveillance footage that showed Ghosn leaving his home in Tokyo around 2:30 pm Sunday, wearing a hat and the surgical style mask frequently used in Japan to prevent illness.

Ghosn's flight to Istanbul left Osaka at 11:10 pm and spent 12 hours in the air. The flight carried two pilots and a flight attendant in addition to Taylor and Zayek. On the flight from Turkey to Lebanon, Ghosn was reportedly accompanied by the airline employee who doctored the flight records.

Ghosn's whereabouts are currently unknown. Carlos Ghosn has a net worth of $100 million, assuming he has access to that, he could disappear forever into a new alias.

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