Italy seizes huge drugs haul intended for Isil fighters in Libya – Telegraph.co.uk

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Some fighters were killed but others are believed to have fled south into the desert and are thought to be regrouping, taking advantage of the chaos that has afflicted Libya since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

While Tramadol is popular in North Africa, the drug of choice for Isil fighters in Syria and Iraq is the amphetamine Captagon.

The drug is renowned for suppressing fear, hunger and pain and giving an energy boost to exhausted fighters.

The terrorists who killed 130 people in the Paris attacks of November 2015 were believed to have been on Captagon or a similar substance.

Before the Syrian civil war, Captagon was apopular recreational drug in the Middle East, selling for up to $20 a pill.

A Syrian police officer in Homs, in western Syria, told Reuters he had seen the effects of Captagon on anti-government protesters.

We would beat them, and they wouldnt feel the pain, he said.

Many of them would laugh while we were dealing them heavy blows.

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