SAUDI PRINCE ARRESTED

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud with the narcotics

Security forces in Lebanon interrogate a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane, Lebanese media say.

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while in possession of 24 bags and eight suitcases full of narcotics.

The Saudi prince was arrested along with four other individuals.

They were charged with attempting to smuggle around two tonnes of captagon pills on their private jet to Saudi Arabia.

Police have launched an investigation into the smuggling case.

Captagon pills have “the typical effects of a stimulant” and produce “a kind of euphoria – you’re talkative, you don’t sleep, you don’t eat, you’re energetic,” according to Lebanese psychiatrist Ramzi Haddad.

The drugs are reportedly the Takfiri Daesh militants’ favorite narcotics.

Editorial

Trouble for Saudi Prince

News of the detention of Abd al- Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al- Aziz Al Saud in Lebanon on suspicion of smuggling narcotic drugs must come as a shock to many who see the House of Al Saud as  the repository of high moral values.

Even more shocking is the revelation that the drugs were meant for the consumption of Islamic State militants who are very busy cutting throats in Syria.

At least now we know that the spate of beheadings and other atrocious crimes being committed in Syria are to some extent drug induced.

How could anyone explain why and how normal looking beings can tie a man’s hands behind him and cut off his head only because he is different?

Saudi Arabia and other reactionary states in the Middle East need to wake up to the reality that their support for militants of the IS would destroy them.

 Obviously Saudi Arabia is chasing a mirage in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.