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ISIS Bigwig Caught w/Half a Million Dollars in Cocaine
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 6, 2015 @ 10:34 am In The Point | 10 Comments
What did ISIS do with all that money it took? In the finest traditions of the Jihad some of it went right up their noses. (via Religion of Peace)
A few hours earlier, the happy fighters of this YPG unit had managed to make their own successful early morning attack against a house on the southern front, where an IS leader named Emir Abu Zahra was known to reside. They told me that in the firefight he was shot and killed.
“They also found a few things of his, which they took with them,” Dayan told me…
And finally, sitting in front of me, is a large, transparent plastic bag filled with white powder. The YPG fighters told me they are not sure what this could be. So I dipped my index finger into it, and sure enough, it’s a big bag of cocaine.
It’s hard to estimate value based on a picture, but a ballpark figure weighing its likely weight against UN records of street cocaine prices in Syria produces a result of around half a million.
Either Abu Zahra had a habit the size of Iraq or his fighters ran on coke.
The other guys have no knowledge of this drug, or how people use it. It’s nothing they have heard of or encountered before. But Dayan suggests that the powder is something Abu Zahra was distributing in smaller portions to his fighters.
They wouldn’t be the first to do so. Tribal fighters often run on drugs and Muslim Jihadists are no exception to the rule. Iran is at the center of a massive meth trade. The Taliban were synonymous with poppy and Hezbollah deals in everything from heroin to smuggled cigarettes sold to convenience stores in the US.
While Vice tries to claim that cocaine is antithetical to Islamic “fundamentalism”, in every society those who get to make the rules, also get to break them for the greater good. Like the way Al Gore flies around the world to warn about Global Warming.
Unless Vice and the YPG also planted the cocaine. Vice News after all makes Rolling Stone seem journalistic.
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