Posted on 01/19/2015 8:44:43 PM PST by Citizen Zed
A potent stimulant popular both with jihadist fighters and soldiers in the Syrian army was seized in the West Bank, police from the Judea and Samaria district said.
In a statement put out on Friday, district police said that while checking a Palestinian returning from Jordan by way of the Allenby crossing they found 1.3 kg. of hashish as well as thousands of pills of Captagon.
The Palestinian man, a resident of Jericho, told police that the pills were to treat his heart condition. He was arrested and taken for questioning by Ma’aleh Adumim police.
A representative for the Judea and Samaria police district was not able to say on Saturday night if this was the first seizure of Captagon in the West Bank.
Captagon is the brand name for a stimulant with the active ingredient fenethylline, a chemical linkage of amphetamine and theophylline. The drug was outlawed in most of the west by the mid-’80s but remains extremely popular in the Arab world, especially in Syria, where much of it is manufactured.
Bootleg and generic copycats are quite common.
Recent reports have stated that Captagon is highly popular with fighters on both sides of the Syrian war; both jihadists from Islamic State and other groups as well as soldiers in the Syrian army.
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he may want to use it but it is a big problem drug in Arabia and Egypt... and the authorities in both countries are having a hard time fighting its use.
I doubt it will help this guy’s heart, tho. Indeed, it may very well hurt ... as
a recent Egyptian medical study concluded thus:
“Overall, captagon users had higher risk of in-hospital death (7% vs. 4%, p value <0.05), cardiogenic shock (15% vs. 8%, p value <0.05), pulmonary tuberculosis (7% vs. 1%, p value <0.05) and recurrent admission with heart failure (35% vs. 24%, p value <0.05). After adjustment for baseline variability, captagon use was found to be an independent risk factor of death and for recurrent admission in patients presented with cardiomyopathy and acute heart failure.”
So they are not on a religious mission, they are nothing more than drug crazed murderous meth heads.
Captagon + Khat + Coffee + Koran
Just add bullets and a suicide vest and you're ready for the day!
need to add a camel
The Zombie Apocalypse is coming. Jihadists on Meth. Satans Warriors
I read the “No Go” zones in france are largely utilized for trafficking god knows what all including heroin and guns.
I would bet in that gun free zone, every muslim home has a cache that would blow your mind.
That is correct. Jihadists are heavily drugged to increase fanaticism.
“Captagon is highly popular with fighters on both sides of the Syrian war; both jihadists from Islamic State and other groups as well as soldiers in the Syrian army.”.......
Why waste bullets when we could drop some Captagon laced with a little “extra kick”. By morning, most of those who used the stuff would be dead.
They might even start posting stuff from a single blogger.
Is there no end to the fanatic lunacy?
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