As is the case with most wars, some unsavory individuals have managed to make a killing off the killing. Chief among these war and drug profiteers is Abu Zeus, a Lebanese expatriate who now lives in Europe and makes thousands off of factories that produce the pills for waiting fighters in Syria. As Zero Hedge reports:
“On the surface, Abu Zeus looks just like a wealthy businessman, but he has been funding Captagon factories for years. He fled Syria when the war began and now resides in Europe. It took Mortada months to persuade him to be interviewed.
Described as being at the top of the supply chain, Abu Zeus boasts on camera of a $6 million profit last year from trading the small pills. The Syrian brigades that have publicly named him as a benefactor number in the thousands, according to Mortada.
Opposed to both the regime and jihadist groups, Abu Zeus brags of keeping the secular groups in Syria ‘standing on their feet.’ He boasts of ‘supporting’ around 12,000 armed men.
He claims the Saudis love the drug because of the country’s alcohol ban and admits that selling to them has made him a great deal of money. He’s adamant that his drug profits counter the money from Saudi Arabia that he believes is funding jihadist groups and destroying Syria:
‘The truth is that the country that exports terrorism to the Middle East and the protector of terrorism is Saudi Arabia,’ he said.
He continued: ‘The fight is not a revolution anymore, it is a fight between seculars and Salafists — a fight between countries.’
Going some way towards explaining why Captagon is tailor-made for the battlefield—and why some have come to rely on the drug after five years of fighting—another fighter described the drug’s effects. He was frank:
‘You don’t have any problems. You don’t even thinking about sleeping or leaving the checkpoint. It gives you great courage and power,’ he said.”
Source: Zero Hedge
Great, hope they all overdose.
I hope karma doe not spply here.
just proved liberalism is a mental disorder! HA
Yep, we are mental cases. We dont take people”s words at face value. We listen, we study, we expirience and we make informed deductions, unlike conservatives. Concervatives takeother’s words as the absolutes refusing to question the establishment. As liberals, we recognize when the rich and the powerful are giving the commoners a dry fu#£ing. We dont lie down, open our legs up. We question, we fight and we refuse to be exploited.
We unionize, we demand our fair share and we take care of those that are unfortunate. We know our value and we demand to be copensated fairly. We dont like wars, but we are ready to kill when threaten. We recognize when war is inevitable and we are the first to volunteer.
Get a job Mike
And they will bring it here .
Put something in it!!??
Send them crock
Mike Briton: No. Most Obama haters, especially those who understand the last 7 years, are literate so that they can work. As it seems now, work for immigrants, for the welfare state, for the lazy, for the politicians pocket, for everyone else but the people of the U.S., and so much more.