[Rudaw] Iraqi authorities have disbanded 25 so-called "international" drug-trafficking networks since the start of the year, said an official from the interior ministry on Saturday.
"In cooperation with neighboring countries, 25 international drug-trafficking networks have been dismantled in 2024," Ziyad Khalaf, an official of the ministry’s drug affairs directorate, told Iraqi state media, adding that extraditions and exchange of information have taken place between the countries.
Iraqi courts have also issued 74 death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s for suspected drug pushers since the start of the year, according to Khalaf.
"The number of setences issued during the current year is very high due to the arrest operations... The last three years only witnessed 54 sentences issued," he added.
There has been an alarming rise in drug dealing and use in Iraq in recent years, despite strict measures taken by the government to curb the phenomenon.
Miqdad Miri, spokesperson for the interior ministry, announced earlier this month that nearly 2 tons of narcotic substances have been seized across the country since January.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i has ordered the establishment of rehabilitation centers in all Iraqi provinces, excluding the Kurdistan Region, as part of his cabinet’s commitment to combat drugs with the same determination as it fights terrorism.
In 2023, more than 19,000 people were arrested across Iraq on drug-related charges and over 15 tons of psychotropic substances were seized.
Two tons for the first half of this year versus 15 tons for all of last year — is the narcotics business down substantially over there or are the Iraqi authorities catching considerably less of it?
In a quadrilateral meeting in Amman in mid-February, the interior ministers of Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...agreed to establish a joint communications cell to keep up cooperation on addressing the alarming rise of narcotics in their countries.