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C1; the $10 billion captagon figure; Chapter 5
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THE PRIMARY BEHIND THE $10 BILLION, AND IT DOES NOT SAY WHAT THE FIGURE IS USUALLY QUOTED AS SAYING. VERBATIM: 'The Captagon trade brought in about $10 billion a year globally. Varying estimates say the Syrian government, which manufactured 80 percent of the supply, pocketed between $3 billion to $5 billion of that itself.' SO THE BROADCAST'S FIGURE IS ABOUT, ANNUAL AND GLOBAL. SRC-233 CITES THIS BROADCAST AT ITS ENDNOTE 6 AND RENDERS THE FIGURE AS 'an underground industry worth at least $10 billion at its pinnacle': about becomes at least, a year becomes at its pinnacle, and globally is dropped. THE BOUND, THE PERIOD AND THE SCOPE ALL CHANGE IN ONE RETRANSMISSION. THE BROADCAST ATTRIBUTES ITS OWN 3 TO 5 BILLION TO 'VARYING ESTIMATES' AND NAMES NOBODY, so that figure is unattributed at source and prose may not present it as measured. TIER 5: a television news broadcast is not a primary for a quantity; it is the primary for what was broadcast.