Something Assad can show to fellow Arab countries mulling normalization with his criminal regime:

“I've worked on narcotics production and smuggling networks in Syria for over a year. Not once did I come across the following three people sentenced recently to life in prison for smuggling drugs as revealed today.”

World-class kingpins such as Wassim Badei al-Assad, Samer Kamal al-Assad, and Nouh Zeiter continue to roam regime-held Syria freely.