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Cheap, easy-to-make amphetamine pill fueling Syria civil war by keeping ISIS fighters alert for days
MailOnline ^ | 19 November 2015 | By Jennifer Newton

Posted on 11/19/2015 7:31:54 PM PST by dennisw

This amphetamine pill helps ISIS fighters stay alert and on their feet for days at a time during long, grueling battles. Called Captagon The highly addictive drugs are easy-to-make and are widely available They help extremists stay alert for days on end during long gun battles Trade of the drug is thought to provide cash for weapons and ammunition

The small tablets of the highly addictive substance Captagon are produced in Syria and is widely available across the Middle East.

It is thought that the trade of the drugs brings in millions of dollars in revenue to Syria, providing funding for weapons and ammunition.

The drug was first produced in the West in the 1960s to treat hyperactivity, narcolepsy and depression, but by the 1980s was banned in most countries because of its addictive properties and no longer has a legitimate medical use.

Its active ingredient, fenethylline, is metabolised by the body into the stimulants amphetamine and theophylline.

Lebanese psychiatrist Ramzi Haddad says the drug has the typical effects of a stimulant.

He explained: 'It gives you a kind of euphoria. You're talkative, you don't sleep, you don't eat, you're energetic.

Production is cheap and simple, requiring only basic knowledge of chemistry and a few scales.'

Syrian state media regularly mention Captagon pills, which sell for between $5 and $20, as one of the items government forces seize alongside weapons when they capture rebel fighters or raid their bases.

A drug control officer in the central city of Homs said he had observed the effects of Captagon on protesters and fighters held for questioning.

He told Reuters news agency: 'We would beat them, and they wouldn't feel the pain. Many of them would laugh while we were dealing them heavy blows.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 11/19/2015 7:31:54 PM PST by dennisw
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ISIS the amphetamine fueled ATTACK ZOMBIES!! The Muslim attack zombie apocalypse is upon us!


2 posted on 11/19/2015 7:33:30 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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How’s the crash?


3 posted on 11/19/2015 7:34:09 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dennisw

It makes them talkative. More online chatter.


4 posted on 11/19/2015 7:34:27 PM PST by Yaelle
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And remember this from a couple weeks ago:

Saudi prince busted with two tons of ISIS drug and cocaine on his private plane

http://nypost.com/2015/10/28/saudi-prince-busted-with-two-tons-of-isis-drug-and-cocaine-on-his-private-plane-officials/


5 posted on 11/19/2015 7:34:38 PM PST by Vic S
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6 posted on 11/19/2015 7:35:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
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To: dennisw

Hopefully it will caused induced Parkinson’s disease in many of them.


7 posted on 11/19/2015 7:36:38 PM PST by r_barton
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To: Vic S

I heard they were engaging in “chemical warfare” . LET THE RUSSIANS KILL THE DOPE HEADED BASTURDS REAL BAD!!


8 posted on 11/19/2015 7:36:52 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: Vic S

More from the above article which is pertinent to your post>>>>>>>

‘We would leave the prisoners for about 48 hours without questioning them while the effects of Captagon wore off, and then interrogation would become easier.’

Meanwhile in April 2014, security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle 15 million capsules of Captagon hidden in shipping containers full of corn from Beirut’s port in Lebanon.

The U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime said in a 2014 report that the amphetamine market is on the rise in the Middle East.

There have been busts mostly in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria accounting for more than 55 per cent of amphetamines seized worldwide.


9 posted on 11/19/2015 7:37:02 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The poem Ozymandias etc etc.... Takes place in a desert


10 posted on 11/19/2015 7:39:46 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“How’s the crash?”


Yeah. And when they say “easy to make”, just how easy because if it’s not REALLY easy I might need to buy some to have enough energy to make more.


11 posted on 11/19/2015 7:41:58 PM PST by moehoward
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“I’m takin’ little white pills that make my eyes open wide...”

-— Dave Dudley


12 posted on 11/19/2015 7:44:23 PM PST by Argus
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To: dennisw

How does an amphetamine help with hyperactivity?


13 posted on 11/19/2015 7:48:18 PM PST by digger48
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To: dennisw

Tweekers are easily distracted.


14 posted on 11/19/2015 7:49:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the pope Catholic?)
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Gee, wouldn’t it be too bad if someone sold them a batch of tainted pills.


15 posted on 11/19/2015 7:50:34 PM PST by Kipp
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To: dennisw

Seems like a perfect avenue for some western intelligence agency to use to slip some slow acting poison to all of them. Slow acting so most of them take it.


16 posted on 11/19/2015 7:51:03 PM PST by r_barton
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This explains so much.

Just like the Nazis...

17 posted on 11/19/2015 7:51:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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Thats what I was thinking.

18 posted on 11/19/2015 7:54:00 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Vic S

The Saudis should have been nuked off the face of the planet the day after 9/11.


19 posted on 11/19/2015 7:54:43 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: digger48

In pre-pubescent males, the effects of amphetamine and sedatives are reversed. Stimulants calm, sleeping pills gets ‘em climbing the walls.


20 posted on 11/19/2015 7:57:12 PM PST by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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