The trafficker who has not been named was arrested on Sunday for holding a "large quantity of drugs" in the southern province of Maysan.
A police source told AFP that at least 100 coppers escorted the trafficker to a court in Amara before gunnies dressed as soldiers ambushed the convoy.
"They arrived in four 4x4 vehicles, all of them armed, and the police who numbered about 100 had no other choice but to surrender their prisoner," he said.
The police source added that the gunnies acted on behalf of a "powerful faction", which he declined to name for security reasons.
Iraq has long served as a transit point for drugs coming from Afghanistan and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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and heading to Europe.
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
groups who impose their rule on local authorities.
Drug consumption was rare in Iraq during the reign of dictator Saddam Hussein, with both users and dealers facing the death penalty
if found guilty.But after Saddam's ouster in 2003 drug consumption boomed across Iraq, which had long been a transit route for drugs making their way into Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
from Afghanistan and Iran.
In 2017, Iraq stopped issuing the death penalty for drug users and dealers, opting for prison sentences.