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2022-03-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Rojava security forces seize record amount of drugs
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[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces (Asayish) on Tuesday seized a record amount of narcotics, after a raid at a warehouse in Qamishli, northeast Syria (Rojava), led to the discovery of more than two million captagon pills.
A shipment containing huge quantities of captagon pills, with a total weight of 438 kilograms, was transported from rebel-held areas of Syria and carefully concealed at a warehouse in Qamishli, where it was subsequently seized by security forces, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported.
Asayish officials revealed that the narcotics were "professionally concealed in construction materials such as granite, basalt, and ceramics."
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The captagon pills were to be transported to Iraq, a security official told AFP on the condition of anonymity.
Earlier in March, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) seized large supplies of illicit drugs and dismantled a smuggling network in Raqqa, arresting two dealers and confiscating half a ton of hashish.
Syria has effectively been turned into a narco-state, concluded an investigation by the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
in 2021 revealing that more than 250 million captagon pills were seized around the world that year. Officials have scrutinized the Syrian government, claiming their major involvement in the drug trade.
"The idea of going to the Syrian government to ask about cooperation is just absurd," Joel Rayburn, the US special envoy for Syria during the Trump administration, told the investigative team at the time. "It is literally the Syrian government that is exporting the drugs. They are the narco mob."
Drug trafficking has become a major issue across Syria as the population struggles to deal with the collapsing economy and US sanctions. Hashish and captagon pills are the narcotics being trafficked the most across Syria, and into Lebanon Hezbollahstan
 ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, and Jordan, AFP reports.
The pills were smuggled into Kurdish-held territory from areas to the west controlled by Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.
The bust was the latest in a series of operations targeting captagon shipments from neighboring areas held by rebel or government forces, the official said.
Captagon was one of the brand names for the amphetamine-type stimulant fenethylline and is now manufactured illegally, mostly in Lebanon Hezbollahstan
 ...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism...
and Syria.
The pill is consumed by a wide variety of users, mostly in Gulf countries.
According to a European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
-funded report by the Center for Operational Analysis and Research, "captagon exports from Syria reached a market value of at least $3.46 billion" in 2020.
Seizures have continued to rise and, according to an AFP count, close to 50 million pills have been seized across the region since the start of the year. 
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