“Investigators believed the drug’s production provided IS with vital revenue for its militant activities.”
Jihadists have used drugs to fund their efforts for years. Years ago, in his study of the Taliban, journalist Ahmed Rashid reported: “Abdul Rashid, the head of the Taliban’s anti-drugs control force in Kandahar, spelt out the nature of his unique job. He is authorized to impose a strict ban on the growing of hashish, ‘because it is consumed by Afghans and Muslims.’ But, Rashid tells me without a hint of sarcasm, ‘Opium is permissible because it is consumed by kafirs [unbelievers] in the West and not by Muslims or Afghans.’ This seems to have been a common view among the Taliban. Another Taliban named Khaled asked, ‘Who cares if heroin is wreaking havoc in the West? It doesn’t matter; they aren’t Muslims.’”
And in December 2017, Politico revealed that “in its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States.”
“Italian police seize 14 tonnes of amphetamines allegedly produced by Islamic State,” ABC.net.au, July 2, 2020:
Italian police are claiming to have made the biggest amphetamines bust of all time after seizing 14 tonnes of drugs allegedly produced in Syria by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Investigators on Wednesday said they impounded three container ships that had docked in the southern Italian port of Salerno and found 84 million pills inside machinery and large paper cylinders.
The 14 tonnes of drugs would have raked in about 1 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in street sales had they ultimately made it to consumers, customs police said.
Customs Police Colonel Domenico Napolitano called the discovery the biggest amphetamine seizure ever made.
Colonel Napolitano said on Italian state radio that investigators believed the drug’s production provided IS with vital revenue for its militant activities.
Investigators hypothesise that amphetamine production in Europe has been hampered by the pandemic lockdown, and so drug traffickers may have turned to Syria-based producers to fill the market….
The amphetamines were labelled “captagon”, the street name for a drug whose chemical base was originally fenethylline….
The ‘drug of the Jihad’
Used in the 1960s to treat narcolepsy and depression, Captagon is one of several brand names for fenethylline hydrochloride, a drug compound belonging to a family of amphetamines that can inhibit fear and ward off tiredness.
The imitation captagon is popular in the Middle East, and widespread in war-torn areas such as Syria, where conflict has fuelled demand and created opportunities for producers.
Production was initially concentrated in Lebanon and IS sells it to finance its activities, police said in a statement.
It said captagon was known as the “drug of the Jihad” after being found in militant hideouts, including one used by the Islamists who killed 90 people at the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015….
mortimer says
Are the illegal migrants to Italy coming to commit crimes? Islam was never a positive part of Italian history from the beginning, so why would that change today? Italians who voted for the pro-immigration politicians are importing problems Italians will regret and that will cost them plenty.
Italians need a crash course in the history of Islamic interactions with Italy. Islam has repeatedly devastated Italy. This drug war is part of a greater war of jihad and conquest.
The Muslim visitor to JihadWatch ‘Eli’ pretended that selling drugs is not part of Islam … it is part of ISIS.
Eli is exposed as a liar by this article. Drug-dealing as part of jihad is HALAL … isn’t that right, Eli?
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Antiislamicman says
Islam has always been a criminal gang
Keith O says
The other side to the equation is a state actor who is busy trying to bring down western countries for political and economic gain.
The biggest worldwide supplier of base chemicals to produce Meth and Ice is China. Nothing comes out of China without state approval.
So you have to ask, who is using who to bring down western civilization?
roberta says
Excellent point. China has the western world fighting on all fronts. Crickets from the china friendly media.
Keith O says
Glad I’m not the only one to notice.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, Islam is quite a religion alright, the only religion which has its “devout”, dedicated adherents who are big time drug dealers. Islam is nothing but an evil ideology that will stoop to the lowest of human behaviours to try to impose its garbage on the world. No doubt that vile concept of what god is, allah, who approves of murdering non-Muslims, paedophilia, honour killings, etc, would be very pleased to see his followers dealing in drugs to further Islam’s cause. islam is always down there in the gutter, carrying out every evil that the human imagination can come up with in order to advance its satanic cause.
Walter Sieruk says
This police seizure of drugs that ISIS obtains money by the buy weapons for the furtherance of the jihad. This shows that ISIS might’ be have a strong comeback, just like resurgence of a plague of an deadly infectious disease.
Some people who had stopped and thought and wondered then asked the question a very good question .Which is “Since ISIS had lost so much territory ,why haven’t the jihadist who make up ISIS just given up in their mad Islamic quest against the West and for the advancement of Islam ?
The answer to that question was provided in a speech by the ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, now dead, in this speech he had declared “True defeat is a loss of willpower and desire to fight…” he further explained “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Qu ‘ran from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Qu ‘ran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Qu ‘ran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 2:191.. 4:47 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qu ‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Qu ‘ran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Qu ‘ran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Qu ‘ran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qu’ran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran, which is the foundation for ISIS, is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
It also should be added that since the Qu,ran has been proven to be a hoax ,as seen above ,this exposes the entire foundation of and for ISIS ,which is the Qu’ ran , then this means that the jihadists of ISIS have taken up a stand for a bad cause. To be more clear and specific a very bad cause.
The Bible instructs “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V
Martin says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0t6ChAyQGc
Martin says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aA8sMKjmv8
gravenimage says
Italy: Police seize 30,000 pounds of amphetamines, “the drug of the jihad,” produced by the Islamic State
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Another reason to Just Say No.
roberta says
Just for some kind of perspective, but correct me if Im too far off.
Basing the weight of one of these amphetamine tabs to the weight of an aspirin 325mg. The give or take a few kinda number I come up with is 40,770,000 amphetamine tabs.
James Lincoln says
Roberta,
Let’s walk through the math – I think I’ve got it right:
1 pound equals 454 g or 453,592 mg.
30 pounds equals 13,607,760 mg.
13,607,770 mg divided by 325 mg equals 41,870 tablets.
gravenimage says
That’s a lot of suffering…
Phil Copson says
“Well done….” to the Italian police, but it isn’t the shipments they find that do the damage – how many shipments get through for every one they intercept ?
Sadly, it probably won’t damage ISIS that much – the drug may have had a street value of $1.6M US dollars, but it will have cost ISIS a fraction of that amount to produce.
And how long will law enforcement in the West keep on searching diligently, when they have corrupt politicians pulling their strings ?
As the influence of islamists grows, it’s also possible that these “drug hauls” are just done on “a nod and a wink” where the drug gangs allow the authorities to “find” a stash of drugs once in a while, in return for another ten shipments getting in unimpeded.
It’s quite obvious from the brazen “people-trafficking” operations being run throughout the West – (including by the UK’s “Border Force”) – that public officials are “on-side” with criminals, so one has to assume that other branches of the security services also contain their fair share of corrupt officials and proto-islamists.
OLD GUY says
Islam is the most racist and criminal organization in the world. I think it is a real stretch to call islam a religion when it proves time and again that it supports criminal actions both within it’s now controlled countries and the western world.
grandpahalfdime says
I keep telling people to read “RED COCAINE: The Drugging of America and The West” and this is why.
The LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA is part of the bigger picture to drug Americans, making them dependent and useless. This is because a large percentage that get hooked on marijuana will migrate to heavier drugs. Marijuana is psychologically addictive along with being physically addictive to some–yes, I’ve heard all the BS and that is what it is. “I can stop anytime I want” is almost always followed by “But I don’t want to stop.”
Just because the USSR is no longer doesn’t mean others won’t use it.
Remember, too, there are a lot of people who want this country gone. There is a long list of countries and organizations that are more than happy to help whomever is running the program. It’s important that you remember that and that they share information because even though they may hate each other, they hate us more–they will work together to get us.
TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE.
SLAM THE RADICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE US THAT ARE HELPING: ANTIFA, BLM, BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES, NFAC, JIHADISTS, and anyone else causing anarchy.