Straight out of a movie? A tiny white pill called Captagon brought Syria's Bashar Al-Assad down; here's how that happened
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's regime was brought down by insurgents in the country, who managed to take control of major territories of the country, forcing the President to escape to Russia and seek asylum there. Meanwhile, there are already reports on how Moscow intelligence officials helped plan Al-Assad's escape, through a Russian airbase along the Syria coast. Now, a shocking development has been seen, where it is being claimed that a white tiny pill, named the Captagon, was responsible for bringing down the Syrian regime, helping the insurgents.
What is the Captagon?
Captagon is a widely popular synthetic and amphetamine, in massive circulation in the Middle East, and its demand is simply so great outside Syria, that it is smuggled to different parts of the world, through Syria drug cartels. In fact, Captagon reportedly stems from Syria itself, and is exported so widely to neighboring countries, that these regions are also affected through the drug trades. This was one of the major forces that drove Al-Assad out, as neighboring country leaders want to tamp down on these pills, and abandoned the Syrian leader as a result, according to an ABC News report.
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Did Captagon cause the Syrian regime's downfall?
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's World Drug Report has already claimed that the majority of Captagon shipments stem from Syria and Lebanon itself, and this drug trade is so extensive,
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