Isis fighters in Syria have been using an amphetamine called ‘Captagon’ to stay alert in battle – a drug unknown outside the Middle East.

Made out of easily available legal substances, this drug was first created in the sixties to treat hyperactivity, narcolepsy and depression but was banned in eighties for being too addictive.

While cheap to make, it has a street value of $20 (£12.90) and revenues from its sale reaches into the millions of dollars – part of which is believed to be used by the Islamic State and other militia groups in Syria to buy weapons.

Lebanese psychiatrist, Ramzi Haddad, told the Guardian that Captagon has ‘the typical effects of a stimulant’ and produces ‘a kind of euphoria – you’re talkative, you don’t sleep, you don’t eat, you’re energetic.’

(and don't care if you die for a worthless cause) ed note.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/19/what-exactly-is-captagon-the-drug-of-choice-for-isis-fighters-5449606/

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.

https://medium.com/clouds-taste-metallic/captagon-the-secret-weapon-of-isis-6c7e95da1064#.cl3217vcr

During the Iraq invasion I remember a huge bust in NY on a shipment headed out?

Have to wonder if some of the cops are using it as well

..and since we created ISIS it makes perfect sense that they would have it too!

was the same as Abu Ghraib

Meanwhile, on planet reality....

Enough to turn many brains into swiss cheese.

We know what meth heads are capable in the US, imagine an army of meth heads.

Here is one of them captured by the Syrian Army, he's so wired he doesn't know he's been captured. Look at those eyeballs.

It was very popular in the 70s. And what I remember is that it will fuck you up, and fast too. Booze takes a long time to kill you. Crank just takes a year or two. It scared me, and I am not easily scared. If they are shovelling out that stuff to the ISIS troops that would explain many things.

Seems a little over the top, but then it can get that way. They start seeing things.

Nutbar Ben Carson.

Unhinged, heavily armed maniacs jacked up to the moon on powerful speed and lunatic religion. That's sure to end well...

the Royals will end up in Saudi Arabia unscathed?

The Saudi royal has not been named.

(CNN)A member of Saudi Arabia's royal family was detained at the Beirut, Lebanon, airport over an alleged attempt to smuggle drugs out of the country on a private plane, a security source told CNN.

The prince was among five Saudi nationals arrested Monday after being accused of trying to transport 2 tons of Captagon amphetamine pills onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency.

It was the largest drug bust ever conducted at the Beirut-Rafik Hariri International Airport, the news agency reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/middleeast/lebanon-saudi-prince-drugs/

Saudi and prince. Come on Lebanon don't be scared to actually name him.

Tons of meth on a plane, thats headlines anywhere.

It's been a very uncomfortable few weeks for the Saudi Royal Family. First, there was that raunchy LA mansion scandal, a laundry list of offenses from which the Saudi prince in question basically got to walk away. But the charges facing another Saudi prince this week in Lebanon may be harder to evade. You know, being the biggest drug bust in Lebanon's recent history and all.

Authorities at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport reportedly stopped a Monday flight to Saudi Arabia on the prince's personal jet after finding two tons of narcotics onboard, local media reported, including 40 suitcases full of the Middle East's widely used amphetamine, captagon.

The prince, who has been identified as Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, was detained with four others at the airport.

Now the story's making waves on social media, with users musing on what's next in the latest addition to a growing list of inter-continental Saudi scandals.

http://www.albawaba.com/loop/twitter-goes-wild-beirut-becomes-site-another-saudi-royal-scandal-760112

is thrilled to note that the overfilled walking shitpails that make up the Saudi "royal" family continue to work overtime to ensure that he's not the worst "world leader."

is highly amusing.

Are they funneling it to ISIL?

by any means possible

It may seem like—almost overnight— ISIS seized and occupied vast swaths of land from Syria to Iraq, with a group that is highly motivated and highly adaptive. However, what has enabled the group to achieve such success in capturing large territories? How have they achieved what other terror groups have attempted and failed at for so long? The answer may not be their abilities or even their ideology, but rather it seems to be a drug they use.

It’s already known across much of the developed world that the use of amphetamine, a drug that stimulates the central nervous system, can enhance an individual’s success. Many university students have been using amphetamine salts, Adderall in particular, to keep up with the increasingly intensified study programs. It is estimated that nearly 30% of university students in the United States use the amphetamine salt to increase their cognitive functionality, stay awake longer, and eliminate fatigue while studying. But just as something can be used with good intentions, it can also be used for bad intentions as well.

Adderall in itself is a powerful drug, which improves cognitive functionality and alertness, but what happens when a drug is made half with Adderall and half with Theophylline (similar to caffeine)? The result of that combination is a drug called Captagon. Think of it as a mixture of the effects of Adderall with an added coffee or energy drink stimulant— with a timed release.

How does this play into the current regional conflicts in the Middle East? It’s a rather simple answer with a more complex explanation. Since Captagon is so effective, it is used by extremist groups throughout the region and the world. However, with the destabilization of Syria, much of the pharmaceutical supplies have fallen into the hands of ISIS militants. This is when Captagon started to emerge as the drug of choice within the ISIS militant community and command. If the drug isn’t available, it isn’t too difficult for someone to create homemade concoctions, since the ingredients needed to create the drug are relatively available in the neighboring states of Syria and Iraq.

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/blogs/566129-the-secret-weapon-of-isis

relates to (what else?) a signature Chimp-n-Cheney operation. Namely, whatever happened to the TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS in US $100 bills (363 TONS worth) they ordered sent to Iraq which, for the most part, completely disappeared. Where did that unfathomable amount of cash GO? I'd say it's a safe bet alQ in Iraq, n/k/a ISIS wound up with a very significant chunk of it.
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The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

much less that amount of CASH???

Realistically assuming a weight of 7 tons for a full-grown African bull elephant or 1.5 tons for an average automobile, that is just over 51 ELEPHANTS or 242 full-sized CARS that literally vanished into thin air.

Not even quantum mechanics can explain that.

Admittedly a difference in scale.

Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdulaziz was caught in an airport in Lebanon on Monday with over two tons of drugs.

Lebanese security found 40 suitcases full of more than 4,000 pounds of amphetamine pills and cocaine on the prince’s private plane, which was on its way to Saudi capital city Riyadh. A security source told AFP that this was the largest smuggling operation ever foiled by Beirut International Airport security.

While this may seem like just another case of rich and powerful aristocrats going wild, the implications of this drug bust are much more insidious: In Saudi Arabia, people are executed over drugs. And not rarely — several times a month, on average.

In fact, just hours after the Saudi prince was caught with thousands of pounds of drugs, a Pakistani drug smuggler was executed by the Saudi government.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/saudi_arabia_executes_people_over_drugs_while_its_princes_are_caught_with_tons_of_drugs_at_the_airport/

Amphetamines (Captagon) Use Rampant In Conservative Saudi Arabia:

http://www.carbonated.tv/news/amphetamines-captagon-trade-booming-in-saudi-arabia-united-nations-office-on-drugs-and-crime

Saudi Arabia seizes $267M in amphetamine pills

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/14/saudi-drug-bust.html

Conservative Saudi Arabia Is Becoming a Hotbed for Amphetamines

http://world.time.com/2013/10/29/conservative-saudi-arabia-is-becoming-a-hotbed-for-amphetamines/

'Devout' Saudis partying on booze, drugs and hookers while Briton faces flogging which could kill him

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/devout-saudis-partying-booze-drugs-6652866

Saudi Arabia shuts down alcohol factories

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/10/27/Saudi-Arabia-shuts-down-alcohol-factories-shut-down.html

Drug smuggling, rape and torture: These 5 Saudi royals all did things commoners would be executed for

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/drug-smuggling-rape-and-torture-these-five-saudi-royals-did-things-that-would-get-them-executed-back-home/

Nazi Germany handed out millions of methamphetamine and cocaine based pills to soldiers during the war.

All over the planet.