Camels crucial to Iraqi drugs trafficking - 23 Dec 08

The deserts of Iraq might not seem like the easiest route to smuggle drugs, but with the help of camels, trade is booming.

Traffickers not only use them as transport, they're also sewing their drugs into the camels' humps to conceal them.

In the second of his special reports, Al Jazeera's Mosab Jasim has been to the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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[afrircans1970]

The consumers are Saudi.....No one will mention that little fact.

[roguenation]

This video reminds me of an old Arabian proverb: "If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow."

[OneforEating]

0:53. I think some of the drugs may have entered that camel's bloodstream.

[historywillabsolve]

1:33 that guy with the AK looks gangsta

[manhattanwombat]

I do, all the time

[eruanion]

tell that to kurdish families

[Instrumentish]

Awesome thats what they need to chill thier brain, Stop fighting and Smoke some WEED!..

[burashidburashid]

It's very nice

[manhattanwombat]

so over a million people were killed in the violence when saddam was still in power too?

[gat6000]

Ugh.. I was born in iraq, I spent most of my life there, have you ever been?

[manhattanwombat]

dude... thats just not true

[gat6000]

Sure there was, you just didn't hear about it.