Cenk Uygur
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Crazy Drug Fueling The Syrian War
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November 21, 2015
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5:14Now PlayingA new drug is permeating the war in Syria. Captagon is a high strength amphetamine that can keep troops up for days. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“As The Post's Liz Sly recently noted, the war in Syria has become a tangled web of conflict dominated by "al-Qaeda veterans, hardened Iraqi insurgents, Arab jihadist ideologues and Western volunteers."
On the surface, those competing actors are fuelled by an overlapping mixture of ideologies and political agendas.
Just below it, experts suspect, they're powered by something else: Captagon.”
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