"I think my mother produced me for free."
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Posted on 10/30/2013 5:24:27 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war
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In one month, Lebanese authorities confiscated more than $200 million worth of a potent amphetamine that is almost entirely unheard of in the West. But in the Persian Gulf, Captagon, as the amphetamine is known, is the most sought-after drug on the street, and the conflict in Syria, with its attendant lawlessness, is making it even easier to obtain.
As the war drags on, it is all the more likely that Captagon will take on a significant role funding warring parties in the conflict. The captured cargo trucks were owned by a Sunni Syrian clan long linked to the drug trade that fled the besieged city of Homs last year to set up shop in Lebanon, says Chams Eddine, who suspects that the proceeds may have been used in part to fund anti–Bashar Assad rebels. “They run two or three operations like that, and they can easily get $300 million. That would buy a lot of guns.”
But it’s not just Syrian Sunnis who are involved. Hizballah, the Iranian-funded and Lebanon-based militia that is fighting in Syria on behalf of President Assad, also has a hand in the trade, according to former U.S. Treasury official Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute and author of Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God. “Hizballah has a long history of dabbling in the drug trade to help with funding, and Captagon, with its high profit margins, is to them just another business opportunity,” Levitt says.
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tweakers suck
Must be cheaper to produce than Heron.
"I think my mother produced me for free."
Just drop a bunch of joints on the middle east-start with Gaza.
i would imagine any cheap to manufacture drug would do for their nefarious purposes say meth for example. Also you have to take into consideration bootlegged goods on a black market ,e.g., Liquor-Johnnie Walker red/black/blue , top brand American cigarettes,certain foodstuff but also pornography websites where money can laundered-you know - a typical North Korean shopping list.
Doped up Jihadi’s have a long precedent in Islam.
I remember Captagon in Bangkok in the 80’s . It was the bargirls favorite choice for love you long time go-go all night
OH PAN that where Jesse end up OH OKAY
Is he still calling Bashar Assad a b***h LOL!
I wonder Assad going call Saul Goodman LOL!
I wonder how many time Jesse would call Bashar Assad the b word LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTrdYEaoIU
Hashish/assassin.
Interesting that like heroin and morphine, it used to be a legal drug, as in medication.
Be honest alot of those drugs were consider medicine back in da day just we Americans and other countries took it granted on alot of stuff
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