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Iraq says its tip to Lebanon leads to the destruction of an amphetamine factory
Iraq's intelligence sharing led to dismantling one of Lebanon's largest Captagon factories amid regional efforts to combat drug trafficking, officials said.
- One of Lebanon's largest factories producing the drug Captagon was discovered and destroyed after Iraqi authorities provided information to Beirut.
- The Lebanese army had issued a statement about finding the drug factory in Bekaa Valley a month earlier.
- Regional states are intensifying efforts to combat the illegal drug trade, with most Captagon produced in Syria and some in Lebanon.
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Iraq says its tip to Lebanon leads to the destruction of an
BEIRUT: One of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq and Lebanon, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. The announcement late Monday came a month after the Lebanese army issued a statement about the discovery of a drug factory in Yammoune
Baghdad: Iraq ' s Ministry of the Interior announced the detection and dismantling of one of the largest drug-producing factories in the Middle East. In a statement published on its Facebook page, the Ministry of the Interior stated that close security and intelligence cooperation between Iraq ' s Ministry of the Interior - Directorate-General for Narcotic Drugs and the Directorate-General for State Security in Lebanon had resulted in …
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