Dubbed the “jihadist’s drug,” Captagon is quickly flooding the middle East and is claimed to be supply the bloody conflict in Syria. French media recently reported that the Paris attackers might have taken the drug.
Last weekend, Turkish anti-narcotics police confiscate eleven million Captagon pills in a haul that weighed nearly 2 tonnes.
it was set to ship to Gulf countries. widely illegal since the
mid-eighties, the pills offer an inexpensive and long high and are
extremely addictive. They also have the potential to cause mental disease and brain injury.
The
production of the drug, which keeps fighters awake over long periods of
time, is said to be providing financial gain for all factions concerned
in the Syrian war.
During the last year, shipments of Captagon
have been seized on the way to the West Bank, Jordan, Sudan, Syria and
also the Gulf. In October, an Saudi prince who was arrested for
attempting to export two tons of the drug onto a plane.
As
Syria has been engulfed in war, smugglers of the little-known,
extremely addictive pills have been forced to search out alternate
routes through Lebanon.
Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada has spent ten years investigating crime, corruption, and the war in Syria. In her documentary for journeyman photos, The Drug supply Conflict in Syria, Mortada follows the Captagon path, from users on the battlefields to traffickers ...Read more https://www.patriotdirect.org/captagon-the-jihadist-islamist-drug/
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