The Iraqi National Security Service announced, (Friday), the seizure of more than 12 million narcotic pills in the capital, Baghdad, in a quick and qualitative operation.
The National Security Agency said in a statement, “Based on the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to intensify efforts to pursue and dismantle drug trafficking networks, and after an intensive intelligence effort and continuous field monitoring, our detachments were able to overthrow one of the drug trafficking networks.”
He stated that “the operation was carried out with a high-level tactic and coordination and after obtaining judicial approvals, and as a result, a force from the apparatus moved and arrested the members of this network one by one and with the crime, after court ambushes were set up for some of them and others were lured and raided.”
The statement added, “The operation ended with the arrest of 6 suspects and the seizure of a storehouse of narcotic pills containing more than 12 million narcotic pills, equivalent to two and a half tons, in one of the areas east of the capital.”