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2024-12-11 08:22:00 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D25A1003EAB2F91B5CC771011008B31837D720915AF17DB77C6E624DB530950D
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Assad was indeed a drug dealer. "The Assad regime controls much of the captagon trade making billions of $s a year" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/11/how-syria-became-the-middle-easts-drug-dealer "The billions of $s that Assad is making from Captagon have given him a financial lifeline" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/21/how-important-is-captagon-in-al-assads-return-to-the-arab-fold "Captagon gives Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states" https://apnews.com/article/captagon-syria-assad-drugs-jordan-saudi-arabia-10920ac4cb80eda181835f9a64bf7dc0
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