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| Lebanon seizes 5 tons of drugs at Beirut airport |
| 2015-12-30 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Lebanese customs seized five tons of Captagon amphetamine pills and hashish at Beirut airport on Tuesday, concealed in primary school desks that were to be shipped to Egypt, a security source said. Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... security forces in northern Leb found two workshops producing Captagon and other drugs during a series of raids, the source said. Both events came after a number of drug seizures at Beirut airport in recent months. Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said Tuesday's operation at the airport was one of the biggest of its kind, and that the drugs could have been smuggled onto other countries after Egypt, without elaborating. "We will not allow Leb to be a transit point for drugs," he said, quoted by Leb's National News Agency. The NNA said that the quantity seized was three tons. There were no immediate reports of arrests. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 When economies are bad all the money goes to drugs? And Government redistribution programs. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-30 16:21 |
| #5 Alan -- 880 BC. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-12-30 15:43 |
| #4 This is what happens when you get behind on your protection payments. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-12-30 11:32 |
| #3 I bet Beirut has been a transit point for drugs since at least the 880s. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-30 09:50 |
| #2 "We will not allow Leb to be a transit point for drugs," Humorous! Beirut has been a transit point for drugs at least since the 1980s when it was used by Bolivia's Suarez and the Pan Am gang for cocaine entering Lebanon. And it was used by the Assad family (Bashir's uncle) for hashish going the other way. |
| Posted by: Clyde Bucket1605 2015-12-30 08:10 |
| #1 When economies are bad all the money goes to drugs? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-12-30 01:09 |