any more work because they put everyone in danger. I told them, "You know how they would get caught? If the police in the Philippines was smart and not lazy, all they had to do was take the witnesses to the airport and look at each picture of the foreigners and, and then that's, 'Oh, that's the guy!'" Then they have his . . . they have his passport, his photo, right, but the police in the Philippines aren't smart and they don't . . . they're lazy. They don't do nothing. So those guys were lucky. . . . You got to use your brain in this job.

If Samia and Stillwell were troubled by the way the trip had gone, it wasn't evident in their communications. They emailed their expenses to Hunter, who delivered $35,000 apiece plus reimburse- ments, in cash. They turned over the weapons and the bloody To- yota Innova to Hunter, and Le Roux ordered the van scrubbed down by two Israeli employees in front of his house. Samia informed Hunter that Stillwell was "rolling state side the 29th of FEB, I am heading out the 6th of March, I will drop [off] the car the 5th." They wired their payments home—being careful to split them into increments under $10,000 to avoid getting flagged for money laundering. Then they caught flights back to the United States.