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Gavin Blackburn

Iraq says tip-off to Lebanon led to destruction of captagon factory

One of the largest factories in Lebanon making the highly addictive amphetamine captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq and Lebanon, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

The announcement came a month after the Lebanese army issued a statement about the discovery of a drug factory in Yammoune village in the eastern Bekaa Valley with large amounts of drugs inside.

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