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| Fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has disrupted the Middle East’s largest drug network, exposing Syria’s role in industrial-scale Captagon production |
| 2024-12-19 |
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… with the Fourth Armored Division, led by Maher al-Assad, managing production and distribution. The New Lines Institute estimated regime earnings at $2.5 billion annually. Hezbollah, Assad’s key ally, played a major role in facilitating Captagon trafficking, especially in southern Syria. Source: WSJ Related: Captagon 12/15/2024 Reuters: Large lab for producing 'jihad drug' found in Syria Captagon 12/14/2024 Hezbollah said to have helped Assad officials flee to Lebanon, sparking furor in Beirut Captagon 12/14/2024 Syrian rebels find heaps of illicit stimulant trafficked by Assad regime |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Was it Syrian or Iran/Hezbollah? I recall that although Captagon was produced in Assad's Syria, the manufacturing was the price of having Hezbollah fight on the side of the regime during the Syrian Civil War (which is when Captagon became a thing) and is mostly operated by Hezbollah and Iran. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-12-19 12:27 |
| #1 There has to be a lot of strung out fighters if the supply was disrupted. |
| Posted by: Wherelet Gonque5439 2024-12-19 07:07 |