IN THE AFTERMATH OF WIDESPREAD CAPTAGON USE BY HAMAS IN ITS TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISRAEL, WILL SYRIA AND LEBANON'S DRUG FACTORIES BE TARGETED?

If you were wondering how the Hamas terrorists, some of whom were NOT Palestinian Arabs, could torture, murder and perpetrate war crimes against unarmed Israeli citizens on October 7th, whatever inhibitions they had were minimized by their use of Captagon, an illegal stimulant that is the Middle East's answer to cocaine, albeit much cheaper to produce and distribute. Found in the possessions of a number of Hamas terrorists killed in battle with the Israel Defence Force were Captagon tablets.

From a recent UNODC report:

"The production of “captagon” tablets, i.e., amphetamine tablets mixed with caffeine, in the Near and Middle East is possibly more important in Asia than the manufacture of amphetamine in South and South-East Asia. Indications received from other countries in the region, as well as media reports, suggest the existence of clandestine laboratories manufacturing “captagon” tablets, in particular in the Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon, partly for domestic consumption and partly for the more lucrative markets of Saudi Arabia and a number of other Gulf States. In addition, another two countries in the Near and Middle East/South-West Asia – in descending order, Jordan and the Islamic Republic of Iran – have been identified by other countries in those subregions as possible countries of origin of amphetamine shipments." 

I can find no evidence that there is any ongoing operation, by any law enforcement agency anywhere, to rein in this clear and present danger. Both the Syrian and the Lebanese manufacturing hubs should be immediately targeted, the illicit factories destroyed or shut down, and the managers extradited, so that they can be charged with trafficking. We cannot wait until Captagon ends up in the hands of European crime families, and in the mouths of consumers in the European Union. Wake up, EUROPOL.