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| Saudi Arabia says seizes drugs worth $267 million, arrests 6 |
| 2014-04-14 |
| [Beirut Daily Star] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n police have nabbed Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! six people and seized illegal drugs worth 1 billion riyals ($267 million) that were being smuggled into the country from neighbouring Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Oh, we are in trouble! Spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said five Saudi citizens and one Bahraini were tossed into the calaboose in the operation after police uncovered 22.6 million amphetamine pills hidden inside coils of barbed wire and rolls of plastic. Drug smuggling can be punished by death in the conservative Islamic kingdom. All narcotics and alcohol are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which has a young population and applies sharia (strict Islamic law). An investigation into the seizure of the drugs turned up a connection to an international drug smuggling ring led by a Syrian national, Turki told the state news agency SPA. In 2010 Saudi Arabia received around 7 tonnes of Captagon tablets, one of the most popular forms of amphetamine in the Middle East, representing around a third of total world supply, according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Office on Drugs and Crime. Production of Captagon in Syria has soared over the past two years as a result of the breakdown in order caused by the country's civil war. |
| Posted by:Fred |