Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2 (AFP\/APP):On a table covered in a green sheet, two Saudi officers pour out thousands of white amphetamine pills they have just seized from a neighbourhood in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jeddah.<\/p>\n
An AFP crew accompanied the anti-narcotics agents on their raid Tuesday when police officers arrested three people carrying 28,000 Captagon tablets.<\/p>\n
The operation — during which AFP was requested to turn off its cameras for security reasons — was part of the country’s efforts to crack down on dealers and smugglers of the amphetamine-type stimulant.<\/p>\n
“The kingdom’s authorities have in the past six years foiled attempts to smuggle more than 600 million amphetamine pills” coming from Lebanon alone, Major Mohammed al-Nujaidi, spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control, told AFP.<\/p>\n
He accused the “Hezbollah terrorist militia” of being “the main source smuggling them and manufacturing them.” The Lebanese Shiite militant group denies such accusations.<\/p>\n
According to an AFP count, more than 25 million Captagon pills have been seized across the region since the start of the year.<\/p>\n
“There have been different smuggling methods, including in fruits and vegetables, tyres, rocks, building materials and furniture,” al-Nujaidi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2 (AFP\/APP):On a table covered in a green sheet, two Saudi officers pour out thousands of white amphetamine pills they have just seized from a neighbourhood in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jeddah. An AFP crew accompanied the anti-narcotics agents […]<\/p>\n
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