Jordan fights drug trafficking

The director of the drug trafficking fighting department in Jordan, Tayel al-Majali, has announced that his department has seized during the last three years amounts of drugs hidden between pages of the Holy Koran and the Bible as well as in cows' stomachs.

In a statement issued on Monday in the Lebanese daily al-Dostour, al-Majali said the amounts of heroin and other kinds of drugs seized in the last three years much exceeded the amounts seized during the last quarter of the current century.

He added that following the intensive campaigns which targeted Hashish plantation's in the Bekaa plain in Lebanon, drug-traffickers in Jordan were no longer able to distribute the Hashish, and as a result were inclined to trade in more dangerous drugs.

He indicated that 120 drug-trafficking cases were controlled during the 1980s, while some 500 cases were seized just during the first half of the 1990s, SANA reported.