Syria: Inside Captagon drug factory which funded Assad’s brutal regime
It's been called the poor man's cocaine. Captagon: the drug that funded Bashar al-Assad's brutal rule in Syria. It's an amphetamine which - in high doses - induces feelings of euphoria and invulnerability. Popular with soldiers, they say it offers 'chemical courage' and reportedly suppresses pain. And it's made the Assad family billions - more than 10 billion dollars a year, by recent estimates. Money it used to shore up a crumbling dynasty. Correspondent: Lindsey Hilsum Filmed and edited by Soren Munk Produced by Rob Hodge
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Your Syrian buddy got all his money by being the Walter White of Arabia, too www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
Illegal drugs via Assad www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
Plastic Oranges Syrian drug trade youtu.be/08kNF68bgx0?...
The mainstay of the assad economy: Captagon. Like the Kim regime and others they resorted to manufacturing and distributing illicit substances that even fuelled daesh‘s madness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
Inside Assad's Captagon drug factory in Syria. Just imagine Putin's or Chinese ones www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
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Go figure an russians are still being allowed to keep their bases on the coast… poof um all- youtu.be/08kNF68bgx0?...
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This is the intersection of multiple topics that fascinate the shit out of me. Syria produced a huge amount of Captagon as a way to get foreign currency. If the production is taken offline it's going to cause issues as the market is estimated at $57B/year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
The illegal drug trade was worth $10 billion a year to the Syrian regime, almost surpassing Syria's official GDP of $13 billion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kN...
So Assad was a drug dealer and a war criminal. I'll bet his dad is so proud of him! youtu.be/08kNF68bgx0?...
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