gaining hard evidence from inside syria is difficult but one story reported in local media caught our eye. on the 11th of september 2022, a pick up truck crashed on its way to the port city of tartus. the vehicle contained two tonnes of hashish and 3 million captagon pills. the two men in the truck were brothers. one was killed, the other arrested on drug trafficking charges. the vehicle itself didn t have numberplates, a sign it belongs to the military. the brothers came from the home of the al assad family. intrigued, we managed to find their social media profiles and tracked down to people who knew the brothers. i tracked down to people who knew the brothers. ~
this was our first evidence that soldiers in the syrian army close to the al assad family were moving quantities of captagon. a co nta ct a contact in syria gave us this video. we are told a local smuggler posted on social media and that it shows captagon being carried in backpacks across the border into neighbouring jordan. from the footage, it seems the lucrative trade is drawing in people from outside the army. the smugglers have weapons and aren t afraid to use them. neither of thejordanian army. of the jordanian army. at their command centre, soldiers monitor the long border with syria, at their command centre, soldiers monitor the long border with syria, using high powered surveillance cameras. they are looking for smuggler activity. looking for cameras. they are looking for smuggler activity.
recognize that, you know, al assad family has been in power for 43 years. bashar al assad was the second son. open that mally school son. his older brother died. he took over the family dictatorship basically after his father. so this guy has gotten to like the power. but do you think that he will ultimately be taken out of power and this is his death nell? by the way, his father, phasal assad, put down a revolt by flattening towns. there s a brutality. also bashar al assad is looking across the world. he saw true naunisia fall. he saw the regime of barrack fall. he does not want to be the fourth country in that chab of t chain of the arab spring.