Posted on 10/26/2015 10:05:42 AM PDT by Fennie
Captagon®: The Secret Weapon of ISIS
There are reports coming out from Kobani, Syria, of dead ISIS rebels being found with pills in their possession.
Ekram Ahmet, a Kurd who fled Kobani with his family, told Mirror: “They are filthy, with straggly beards and long black nails.”
“They have lots of pills with them that they all keep taking. It seems to make them more crazy if anything.”
“They become agitated and excited, desperate to punish even children for the smallest thing.”
The Kurds believe these pills are amphetamines, and this would go a long way to explaining why ISIS members are so maniacal and fight with suicidal abandon.
The International Business Times has reported on how voice analysis’ show that ISIS killer ‘Jihadi John’s’ “distinctive speech pattern” may indicate he was high on amphetamines when beheading captive David Haines.
Most likely, the amphetamines in question fall under the brand name Captagon.
In January of this year, Reuters reported on how Syria has become a major consumer and exporter of amphetamines, the most popular being captagon.
https://medium.com/clouds-taste-metallic/captagon-the-secret-weapon-of-isis-6c7e95da1064#.rn7kbhosj
A study however, conducted in 2005 by Alabdalla MA for Forensic Science International of 124 batches of seized captagon, revealed they contained no fenethylline at all.
Rather, these counterfeit captagon tablets contained amphetamine, methamphetamine, ephedrine, metronidazole, caffeine, theophylline, chlorphenamine, procaine, trimethoprim, chloroquine, and quinine. In short, a drug cocktail far more potent than the original name brand version.
Indeed, reports suggest that Syrian insurgent groups ingest a far ranging and prodigious amount of potent drugs including “Baltcon”, “Afoun”,”Zolm”, Opium, Heroin, Cocaine, and Hashish.
According to Frank Lamb in CounterPunch: “Jihadists high on drugs apparently feel invincible and hostile and do not fear death. Many are indeed ferocious and fearless fighters during the day, as many media sources have reported. But by nightfall, when the drug wears off the fighters become exhausted and sometimes they are found asleep on the spot they were fighting from.”
Must have bought them in volume at Costco.
In the words of my old “Dutch Uncle”...
“You said it kid.” lol
“I suspect that law is selectively enforced.”
True - although by Saudi law, drug trafficking is punishable by death.
If the Saudis want to maintain any consistency, they’ll need to put this guy to death.
Wow. Was Bill Clinton on board getting his accustomed cut for the Clinton Family Laundry?
What's the Bushes' cut?
“Doesn’t SA have the death penalty for drug trafficking?”
Well, they should at least cut something off shouldn’t they?
error of Ulm should be auf Ulm, fur Johann Gambolputty ... bahnwagen, guten abend - that is so messed up like apple should be apfel. Unless Johann ist eine Amerikaner, Good for a chuckle!
I suspect they’ll let it slide since he wan’t trying to smuggle the drugs into SA.
Black tar heroin from Afghanistan?
Sounds like a bunch of tweekers.
Either that or they will find some minion to hang the blame on as a whipping boy.
Saudi Prince, the equivalent of a politician called Kennedy, Clinton, et.al. so of course he is going to walk. He’s an elite.
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Time to break out the flamethrowers and USE THEM!
He really was a “princely high-flier”.
This is not surprising
Drugging up before jihad has always been the standard
Usually it was hashish
Have not read the story but the Guardian in the UK is extremely and unequivocally left-wing, socialist-supporting, anti-American paper, and CBS News is not much different.
Like I said, not commenting on the article but just pointing pout the sources are hardly credible.
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