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Title: Syria: War is Good for Business?
Published: 2019-10-25
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BHv30LQZU
Title: Syria: War is Good for Business?
Published: 2019-10-25
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BHv30LQZU
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war is good for business what kind of business let's check out some of the businesses thriving on the war in syria since 2011 thousands of syrian children have had their organs harvested the cereal war has created a driving trade in human organs worth millions of dollars meet abu jafar he used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which2/12
trades in organs now his job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money and the influx of refugees from syria to lebanon has created many business opportunities that's what i do some of my clients would have died anyway i know what i'm doing is illegal but i'm helping people that's how i see it i was once asked to get3/12
an eye and they found a client who was willing to sell his eye i don't really care if the client dies as long as i got what i wanted in only a few years turkey has seen a 736 percent increase in sexual exploitation of migrants children most of them from syria the war in syria has created a booming sex trafficking business for the criminal networks worth4/12
hundreds of millions of dollars good for that visitors indeed and this is what they're afraid of [Music] the war in syria has fueled arms trafficking with illicit networks operating in the region capitalizing on the chaos and availability of weapons to advance profits the syria war has created a big boost to the gray and black market arms sales in the region we are talking billions and billions5/12
of dollars an amazingly booming business now a report is out by journalists from the balkan investigative reporting network and organized crime and corruption reporting project according to the document some eastern european countries have sold over 1.3 billion dollars of arms to middle eastern countries in the past four years they were later supplied to syrian militants the trade is said to have been coordinated by the american6/12
secret service the cia the weaponry includes thousands of ak-47 assault rifles machine guns motor shells rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles as well as aging t-55 and t-72 tanks the munitions were shipped from bosnia bulgaria croatia czech republic montenegro slovakia serbia and romania the arms were sent by sea or air to saudi arabia jordan the united arab emirates or turkey and then shipped to the war zone7/12
in syria they were mostly sent to saudi arabia one of the main supporters of anti-government militants in syria saudi arabia alone secretly imported 18 500 rocket launchers 10 000 ak-47 guns 300 tanks and 250 anti-aircraft guns from the european countries other european countries have already sold huge quantities of arms and ammunition to saudi arabia arming the oil-rich u.s backed monarchy to the teeth the purchased arms8/12
from eastern europe have been routed to syria through two secret command hubs in jordan and turkey the saudis have also airdropped weaponry to their mercenaries in yemen saudis and turks have supplied arms to the extremist groups in syria which are not supported by the us the united states itself has also directly purchased large quantities of arms from central and eastern europe and sent them to syrian9/12
militants they ultimately fall into the hands of terrorist groups such as ansar al-sham the al-qaeda-affiliated jabat al-nusra rebranded as father al-sham and darish takfiri terrorists such arms trafficking may have breached eu and international laws on arms exports let's talk about another trade the illicit drug visitors drug trafficking networks and gangs also have capitalized on the chaos sworn by war in syria and with that comes hundreds10/12
of millions of dollars worth of business and profit lebanon's becca valley has a history of smuggling and trafficking of all sorts an area where illegal activities include narcotics ahmed is one of those who transports and sells a type of amphetamine called captagon a cheap and hugely popular drug in the middle east here's what i sell if someone takes captagon he's sure to stay awake and not11/12
go to sleep in a bag like this one you get around 200 pills one costs about 20 and some only 17 or 18 each before the war broke out in syria all of the captagon produced in lebanon headed to the gulf states but a new market opened up with rebel fighters keen to get their hands on it traffickers and users don't bother about sharia law when