Armies of Liberation

Jane Novak's blog about Yemen

3.7 million pills, 18 tons of drugs, 230 gun shops

Filed under: Proliferation, Security Forces, Yemen, drugs, smuggling — by Jane Novak at 11:15 am on Monday, October 13, 2008

Most of the arms dealers were released after signing a pledge

Almotamar.net - Interior Minister General Mutahar Rashad al-Misri revealed that security authorities on Tuesday seized 3 million and 700 thousand intoxicating pills and managed during the first half of this year 18 tons of drugs, saying it was a quantity enough to destroy the entire youth of the Arab homeland.

Minister al-Misri also said the security authorities also managed to capture the terrorist cell that was sending threatening messages to some embassies in Yemen. In addition, security authorities were able to carry out the campaign of prohibiting weapons and the closure of 230 shops for selling arms and munitions. They detained 270 arms dealers in a number of governorates.

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