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Saudi prince caught smuggling 2 tons of combat drugs (for ISIS?) on his private plane, arrested

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Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:19 UTC

Lebanese security forces are interrogating a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane after they allegedly retrieved 2 tons of narcotics from the aircraft. Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday in Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport.

The prince was about to conduct a flight on his private plane to Saudi Arabia. Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen reported that 40 packages of drugs, weighing 2 tons in total, were confiscated. The prince was arrested and taken in for questioning along with four other people. According to Press TV they were charged with attempting to smuggle pills of captagon, an amphetamine allegedly widely used among fighters in the Middle East.

Comment: The Saudis lobbied hard for the US to expand its operations in Syria, get rid of Assad and bomb the place to hell, making the region unlivable. Guess who would have received the Saudi Prince's combat drugs?

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Good Optics · 2015-10-26T15:17:49Z

From the 'Guess Who' link above

"He said: "We wanted the Islamic State to reign all over the world and see god rule where people opposed the Islamic State.

"They said we should fight and if we were killed then we would end up in paradise with the angels. Now I regret it.

"I thought they were infidels but now I think I was taught wrongly."

The second fighter, Ali, claimed he had been forced to join ISIS after the Syrian Free Army became involved with the jihadist group.

Previous reports have suggested ISIS fighters have been taking amphetamines and cocaine on the frontline."

yournamehere · 2015-10-26T16:25:51Z

If that plane was re-routed to the US, I'm sure we would buy those pills.

adjacent · 2015-10-27T10:10:17Z

There are all sorts of the "so called" combat cocktails. Cocaine mixed with gunpowder, amphetamines with Demerol e.t.c. No mater how good your physical status is it's very hard to operate under heat. First of all your mind doesn't work. You need cooling. Secondly they are practically useless as they basically drain you. When on a combat mission you need only 2 things : water and ammo. Everything else is useless plus it's xtra weight that will drain you an hour earlier. That hour might be critical for your survival.
Of course the Lebanese didn't get the Saudis by chance, the had info. Basically in that particular case they wanted to nail the cargo which probably is going to be sold to third parties. Your guess is as good as mine.

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