KUWAIT CITY, 16 August 2005 â A Pakistani man has been detained in Kuwait over alleged links with a failed heroin smuggling operation and is being questioned about possible links with terrorist networks, a security source said yesterday. Ali Mir Ahmed, 23, who worked as a hairdresser in Kuwait Cityâs northwestern suburb of Al-Jahraa has been detained over the shipment seized late Saturday, said the source which did not wish to be identified. | A drug-running Pakistani hairdresser, I smell made-for-TV movie |
It said the authorities nabbed the heroin with a market value of $200 million that was smuggled inside a shipment of 88 carpets to Kuwait airport. | Ah, that would be yesterdays bust |
The authorities found with Ahmed documents showing the hand-made carpets were shipped to him from inside Afghanistan. The source said âthere is cooperation and an exchange of information with specific countries, namely Afghanistan and Pakistanâ over the busted shipment. âThe Pakistani man has been detained and is being questioned as the shipment was under his name. He has not yet confessed about any terrorist party behind the shipment. This will be known after the investigation,â it said.
On Sunday, police Col. Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah said Kuwaiti authorities had nabbed a drug smuggling operation which aimed to sneak one ton of drugs into Kuwait and other Gulf countries by hiding them inside carpets. âIt is the biggest and most bizarre seizure (of drugs) in the Middle East ... and it could be an operation meant to fund terrorist movements,â he told a press conference. |