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Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article today about the escape of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn from house arrest in Japan. It’s an amazing story. Mr. Ghosn, who is 5 feet 6 inches tall escaped in a box used to transport musical instruments.<\/p>\n

The article quotes The New York Post:<\/p>\n

In a bizarre scheme allegedly orchestrated by his wife in the US, a group of ex-special forces soldiers posing as musicians specializing in a Gregorian band and toting music equipment strolled past Japanese security guards and entered the pad, according to the Lebanese news channel MTV.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ghosn, who stands at just under 5-foot-6, climbed into \u201cone of the boxes intended for the transfer of musical instruments,\u2019\u2019 the news station said \u2014 possibly a roughly 6-foot-tall double-base case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was then carted out in the case when the group left, after a \u201clogical time for a concert had passed,\u201d MTV said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japanese authorities had the door to his home under 24-hour video surveillance \u2014 but, per an April court agreement, Ghosn\u2019s camp didn\u2019t have to turn over each month\u2019s recordings until the 15th of the following month, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ghosn is believed to have been spirited out of the country on a chartered Bombardier jet from Kansai International Airport in Osaka \u2014 a six-hour drive from Toyko \u2014 around 11:10 p.m. Sunday, the Journal said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plane landed at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul early Monday, reports said. Ghosn then boarded a smaller plane belonging to the Turkish company MNG Jet Havacilik AS that departed about 30 minutes later for Rafic Hariri Airport in Beirut, Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japanese authorities apparently had no idea that their most high-profile detainee had fled until hours later \u2014 and only then, from an MTV reporter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The station worker approached Matahiro Yamaguchi, the Japanese ambassador to Lebanon, at a party in Beirut around 6 p.m. Monday and asked about Ghosn\u2019s fleeing, The Guardian reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stunned ambassador said his administration knew nothing about it \u2014 and spent the next few minutes furiously texting before abruptly leaving the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article in The New York Post continues:<\/p>\n

Lebanon authorities claimed Ghosn entered the country legally via the use of a French passport \u2014 although it\u2019s unclear how.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawyer Hironaka said he still has Ghosn\u2019s three passports, for Lebanon, France and Brazil, that his client had to turn over as a condition of bail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been difficult for him to do this without the assistance of some large organization,\u201d Hironaka told reporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Power Line Blog reminds us that nothing happens in Lebanon without the approval of Hezbollah. Interesting.<\/p>\n

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