Posted on 10/20/2023 5:54:26 PM PDT by Schatze
Today’s Captagon coming out of Syria is not the same animal...
The New York Times reported in December 2021 that the Syrian Army's elite 4th Armoured Division, commanded by Maher al-Assad, whose brother Bashar al-Assad is the ruler of Syria, oversees much of the production and distribution of Captagon, among other drugs. The unit controls manufacturing facilities, packing plants, and smuggling networks all across Syria, and had started to deal in crystal meth.[14] The division's security bureau, headed by Maj. Gen. Ghassan Bilal, provides protection for factories and along smuggling routes to the port city Latakia and to border crossings with Jordan and Lebanon. In the wake of sanctions against the Assad government, Jihad Yazigi, editor of The Syria Report, said Captagon is now "Syria's most important source of foreign currency".
Very true. We still used them until at least Viet Nam. I knew an intelligence officer who was in Viet Nam during the Tet Offensive. He told me that amphetamines were passed out like candy. He also told me that when he finally got a chance at sleep, he crashed hard and felt very depressed for several days.
The longest I have stayed awake is 78 hours (long story). From personal experience, my judgement and short term memory started degrading at about the 24 hour mark and by 72 hours my short term memory was shot. I could not finish sentences, because I forgot what the first few words of the sentence were.
UAE Seizes Billion Dollar Amphetamine Haul
More than $1bn (£810m) worth of the drug known as Captagon were found after officers were alerted to a suspicious looking shipping container.
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Foretelling the zombie apocolypse in America, by Americans.
Thanks.
Much like the Juramentados of the Philippines took drugs to prepare themselves for a suicide attack on US troops during the Philippine Uprising of the 1900s.
The army found the .38 Colt pistol was useless against them and started reissuing the older Colt .45 which did work.
the nasti’s along with the muzzies did this during WW2, it kept them fighting for several days nonstop.
Just goes to show, the left can only win by cheating.
Thanks, I did not know that.
Am not a defender of Assad.
But am not a fan of the accuracy of Wiki either. Leftist City.
Cowards need it
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