{"id":275018,"date":"2024-08-28T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275018"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:21:03","slug":"iraq-arrested-about-10000-for-drug-crimes-in-jan-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=275018","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Arrested About 10,000 For Drug Crimes In Jan-Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Aug 28 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi authorities said yesterday that, about 10,000 suspects have been arrested across the country, for drug-related crimes, so far, this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hussein al-Tamimi, director of the media office at the Interior Ministry&#8217;s General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, said that, the judiciary has issued rulings against nearly 5,500 drug criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Tamimi also noted that, authorities have managed to dismantle international networks through information sharing and creating a database with other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chaos and conflicts in Iraq, since the U.S. invasion in 2003, have impeded successive Iraqi governments, from effectively addressing the threat of drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, last year, Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia&#8217; al-Sudani, underlined the importance of waging &#8220;a war on drugs,&#8221; saying that, drug dealing remains a major source of funding for terrorism and that the circulation of drugs flourishes in the shadow of terrorism.&#8211; NNN-NINA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Aug 28 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi authorities said yesterday that, about 10,000 suspects have been arrested across the country, for drug-related crimes, so far, this year. Hussein al-Tamimi, director of the media office at the Interior Ministry&#8217;s General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, said that, the judiciary has issued rulings against nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":275020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275021,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275018\/revisions\/275021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}