Republican Representative calls on Biden to counter drug smuggling from Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the Republican Representative, French Hill asked the administration of President Joe Biden to seek “to stop the systematic drug smuggling operations in Syria,” describing Assad’s rule as a “drug regime.”
Hill called on his colleagues to support the draft resolution that he put forward last month within the Ministry of Defense budget law for the year 2022, saying, it is “the first step to end this civil war that devastated Syria.”
The draft resolution was approved by 316 deputies out of 435, and is now before the Senate.
At the end of last September, the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant Affairs, Joel Rayburn, said, “Assad dumps produce, drugs, and cigarettes into Jordan.”
“Won’t it become easier for Maher Assad’s Fourth Division to smuggle Captagon into (or via) Jordan? And won’t Maher again smuggle cigarettes into Jordan?” he tweeted.
It is worth noting that many countries of the world have seized hundreds of shipments of narcotics coming from areas under the control of the Syrian government.
On October 10, Jordan announced that it had seized 800,000 Captagon pills inside a truck transporting vegetables and fruits at the Nassib border crossing with Syria.
In July, Jordan announced that it had “thwarted the smuggling of hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills through the same crossing.”
In 2019, the Greek authorities reported that the coast guard had seized “the largest shipment in the world of Captagon stimulant pills coming from Syria.”