Drug smuggling attempt foiled at Kuwait border

[gallery size="medium" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" td_gallery_title_input="Drug smuggling attempt foiled at Kuwait border" ids="75663,75943,75941,75942"]By Mishaal Al-Otaibi RIYADH — The Saudi and Kuwaiti drug combating authorities have foiled an attempt by a Saudi citizen and a Syrian to smuggle about 1.5 million amphetamine pills from Kuwait to Saudi Arabia. Col. Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed Bin Kadassa, spokesman for the anti-narcotics directorate, said close cooperation between the drug-combating authorities in the two countries helped foil the smuggling attempt. He said the pills were concealed in bags of charcoal coming from Ukraine.