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After Sting Operation, Cousin of Bashar al-Assad Convicted in Arms for Drugs Deal

The cousin, Antoine Kassis, was found guilty of conspiracy to support a terrorist group, after trying to sell weapons from the fallen regime to a Colombian militia. A drug-running cousin of the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was convicted last week in a federal court in Virginia of plotting to trade military-grade weapons for a shipping container’s worth of Colombian cocaine — all under the guise of frui... [1695 chars]

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