News (Media Awareness Project) - Kuwait: Kuwait airport heroin haul doubles in 1996 |
| Title: | Kuwait: Kuwait airport heroin haul doubles in 1996 |
| Published On: | 1997-04-08 |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-08 20:30:50 |
KUWAIT, April 7 (April) Kuwait airport authorities seized 60 kg (132 lb) of
heroin in 1996, double the amount detected the previous year, an official was
quoted on Monday as saying.
Khaled alMousa, head of Airport Customs Administration, told the Arab
Times newspaper that heroin smuggling was now the biggest concern for
authorities at the Gulf Arab state's only international airport.
Drug smuggling was made a capital crime in Kuwait in 1995 but no related
executions have been reported.
Moslem conservative Kuwait, which bans alcoholic beverages, has a
population of some two million people, including about 1.2 million foreign
residents.
heroin in 1996, double the amount detected the previous year, an official was
quoted on Monday as saying.
Khaled alMousa, head of Airport Customs Administration, told the Arab
Times newspaper that heroin smuggling was now the biggest concern for
authorities at the Gulf Arab state's only international airport.
Drug smuggling was made a capital crime in Kuwait in 1995 but no related
executions have been reported.
Moslem conservative Kuwait, which bans alcoholic beverages, has a
population of some two million people, including about 1.2 million foreign
residents.
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