Friday, December 01, 2006
Iran's successful campaign reverses drugs transit route
Iran's drugs police chief, General Hamid-Reza Hosseinabadi said here Tuesday that Iran's successful drugs campaign has resulted in change of the route of drugs transit to Central Asia and Pakistan.
The stronger presence of Iran on the eastern borders has made the traffickers more frightened and forced them to move farther from the region, turning to the Central Asian and Pakistan route for transit of drugs, he noted.
In a period of seven months since the start of the Iranian year, Hosseinabadi said 210 tons of drugs, including 6,641 kg of heroin, have been confiscated from traffickers by Iranian police. The figure shows a 117-percent growth compared to the figures for the corresponding period last year.
This is about the best drugs policing in the world, if accurate. I understand they have 30,000 police on the Pak and Afghan borders so it is believable.
At the same time, the drugs are clearly getting in "somewhere" from Afghanistan. The obvious route is through Pakistan, a fact I implied here. UK intelligence officers say “Since the 1970s, Turkey has accounted for between 75 and 90 per cent of all heroin in the UK. The key traffickers are Turks or criminals who operate along that route using Turkish contacts.” and "Customs could not get at the Turkish kingpins because they are “protected” at a high level."
IMO: Turkey to join EU ? On the face of it, we'd be better off with Iran as a member.
The stronger presence of Iran on the eastern borders has made the traffickers more frightened and forced them to move farther from the region, turning to the Central Asian and Pakistan route for transit of drugs, he noted.
In a period of seven months since the start of the Iranian year, Hosseinabadi said 210 tons of drugs, including 6,641 kg of heroin, have been confiscated from traffickers by Iranian police. The figure shows a 117-percent growth compared to the figures for the corresponding period last year.
This is about the best drugs policing in the world, if accurate. I understand they have 30,000 police on the Pak and Afghan borders so it is believable.
At the same time, the drugs are clearly getting in "somewhere" from Afghanistan. The obvious route is through Pakistan, a fact I implied here. UK intelligence officers say “Since the 1970s, Turkey has accounted for between 75 and 90 per cent of all heroin in the UK. The key traffickers are Turks or criminals who operate along that route using Turkish contacts.” and "Customs could not get at the Turkish kingpins because they are “protected” at a high level."
IMO: Turkey to join EU ? On the face of it, we'd be better off with Iran as a member.
# posted by uv : 3:36 AM
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