Shafaq News-Baghdad
The securityforces arrested on Tuesday a "mastermind" drug trafficker and seized32 kilograms of Captagon near the Arar border crossing with Saudi Arabia inwestern al-Anbar province.
The GeneralDirectorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, within theInterior Ministry, said that the dealer attempted to smuggle the drugs into aneighboring country.
Earlier thismonth, Iraqi forces seized more than 10,000 narcotic pills and arrested a suspecteddrug trafficker during separate operations in the province.
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