South Iraq’s Wassit Province warns from grown narcotis in Province

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Southern Iraq Wassit Province’s Council has warned from growing narcotic plants and their trading in the Province and decided to form a special committee to watch and put an end to such activity, the Chairman of the Council’s follow-up committee said on Monday.   “The Council has decided to form a special committee to follow up and stop the spread of planting narcotic plants, define their growing areas and their transformation into narcotics, used by young people,” Ali Karim told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that the committee had uncovered the spread of the planting of two types of narcotics, called “Khishkhash” and “Datora,” in the public gardens and green areas of the Province.   “The Council has demanded the Directorate of Fighting Narcotics to activate its observation role along the green areas, where narcotic plants were grown and areas of their manufacturing, and to send their owners to justice,” he added.   On its part, Wassit’s Police Command has denied existence of narcotics, planted in the gardens of Kut, the center of Wassit Province , confirming to uncover the source of such information.   “Media reports about the existence of the Khishkash narcotic plants in the gardens of the Province’s Police Command are incorrect,” Maj-General Hussein Abdul-Hadi told IraqiNews.com, charging the news media with “spreading such reports to create a state of distrust between the citizens and the security bodies.”   He pointed out that Wassit’s Police Command had managed to “liquidate the trading in narcotics, arrest their merchants and sending them to justice.”   “There are no attempts to plant narcotics in the Province,” he said, adding that “planting of narcotics needs special climates to grow them, including high areas, with high temperatures, and such climates don’t exist in Wassit Province .”   A Wassit Security source had stated to IraqiNews.com that “Wassit Police’s Anti-Narcotics Directorate had confiscated a large quantity of medicine and narcotic pills, smuggled from government hospitals in a Kut house.”   SKH (FT)   “The police had gathered intelligence information about the trading of narcotic pills by the owner of the house, selling them to addicts in the city,” adding that the Anti-Narcotics elements had managed to impose control on Zurbatiya border area, 90 km to the east of Kut, searching all visitors from Iran, passing through the area.”   Kut, the center of Wassit Province , is180 km to the southeast of Baghdad .   596 WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Southern Iraq Wassit Province’s Council has warned from growing narcotic plants and their trading in the Province and decided to form a special committee to watch and put an end to such activity, the Chairman of the Council’s follow-up committee said on Monday.   “The Council has decided to form a special committee to follow up and stop the spread of planting narcotic plants, define their growing areas and their transformation into narcotics, used by young people,” Ali Karim told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that the committee had uncovered the spread of the planting of two types of narcotics, called “Khishkhash” and “Datora,” in the public gardens and green areas of the Province.   “The Council has demanded the Directorate of Fighting Narcotics to activate its observation role along the green areas, where narcotic plants were grown and areas of their manufacturing, and to send their owners to justice,” he added.   On its part, Wassit’s Police Command has denied existence of narcotics, planted in the gardens of Kut, the center of Wassit Province , confirming to uncover the source of such information.   “Media reports about the existence of the Khishkash narcotic plants in the gardens of the Province’s Police Command are incorrect,” Maj-General Hussein Abdul-Hadi told IraqiNews.com, charging the news media with “spreading