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Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/middleeast/syria-captagon-assad-factory-video-intl/index.html
Drug Warehouse Found at Military Headquarters Commanded by Assad's Brother
(CNN) Tim Lister - A social media video surfaced Wednesday showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with the drug captagon at the headquarters of a military division near Damascus that was commanded by Bashar Assad's brother Maher. Piles of pills are seen on the floor along with drug-making equipment. The highly addictive drug, mostly containing amphetamine, is sometimes described as the "poor man's cocaine," with annual trade in the drug worth billions of dollars. Al Arabiya recently reported the discovery of thousands of captagon pills at the Mazzeh airbase south of Damascus at a branch of Syrian Air Force Intelligence.