Hadil al-Sholchi
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-14-2024 7PM EST
I'm standing in what was probably the living room of this fancy warehouse luxury villa overlooking the Damascus countryside. But the smell in here is so strong. It smells of chemicals. Stacked behind me to the ceiling are these drums of chemicals that were used for the Captagon. And there's also these stacks that look like flower bags.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-14-2024 7PM EST
But again, they have the chemicals that are used to make Captagon. There are all these heavy duty machinery also used to make the drug in a very incongruous setting with these chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. and the end product was Captagon. these tiny pills that propped up the Syrian economy under Bashar al-Assad.