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Gregory Meeks: For years now the brutal Assad regime, its affiliates and criminal networks have used the sale and trafficking of the…

On the recordNovember 6, 2023
For years now the brutal Assad regime, its affiliates and criminal networks have used the sale and trafficking of the illegal narcotic captagon to enrich itself and fuel its campaign of brutality against Syria's people.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks discusses the impact of captagon trafficking by the Assad regime on Syria.

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