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The Netherlands: Heroin Seized
NY TIMES ^ | 5/19/14 | Rick Gladstone

Posted on 05/20/2014 6:53:26 AM PDT by mgist

Nearly 1,700 pounds of heroin was smuggled into the Netherlands last week hidden in a shipment of Iranian raisins, Dutch police investigators said Monday. The heroin, valued at about $23 million, ........ Iran is a major transit point for heroin from Afghanistan. Iran also is believed to be the world’s third-largest exporter of raisins, behind Turkey and the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: heroin; iran
Trafficking like this doesn't happen in countries like Iran without government complicity. The Afghan poppy fields have reached historically high production levels, under the protection of US troops.

Famed author, Samuel Hersh detailed Obama’s use of the US military to support Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda regimes in,The Red Line and the Rat. They aren’t just terrorist organizations, they are heroin traffickers. Muslim Brotherhood is a heroin trafficking org.

The only countries intercepting these shipments have been Australia and the Netherlands.

Iran paid for Chavez' campaign in Venezuela. Chavez turned Venezuela into the world's largest drug distributor.

1 posted on 05/20/2014 6:53:26 AM PDT by mgist
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To: mgist

I suspect they seized the raisins and let the heroin go to its destination.


2 posted on 05/20/2014 6:55:28 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: mgist
How do you like them raisins?
3 posted on 05/20/2014 7:00:28 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“How do you like them raisins? “

They make me feel good. Then I nod out!


4 posted on 05/20/2014 7:09:53 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Misread. I was wondering what Neanderthals needed heroin for. Guess life must of really sucked back then.


5 posted on 05/20/2014 7:19:46 AM PDT by catman67
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To: mgist

Say what one will about the Taliban, but they SHUT DOWN the drug business in Afghanistan...and we allowed it to restart.


6 posted on 05/20/2014 7:02:16 PM PDT by BobL
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