How Europe’s drug trade scaled up, straight through Isis turf

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The cargo ship Meryem, seized in June of 2015 with 20 metric tons of hashish, docked in Palermo, Italy, June 6, 2016. Over 32 months from April 2013, 280 tons of hashish were seized from 20 cargo ships on a new smuggling route that included a chaotic stretch of Libya, but investigators are struggling to understand who was behind the enormous shipments. Photograph: Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times

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