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2024-12-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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

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Posted by Fred 2024-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#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|| 2024-12-19 07:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2024-12-19 12:27|| Front Page Top

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