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Jordan has foiled two plots to smuggle millions of captagon pills through a border post to Saudi Arabia, the biggest seizure in years of drugs bound for lucrative Gulf markets from what Jordanian security officials say are Syria-based gangs with ties to Iran. The haul was discovered hidden in a shipment of construction vehicles at the Omari crossing in Jordan’s eastern desert before it was due to enter Saudi Arabia, officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Law enforcement authorities had for weeks tracked two separate operations bringing the consignment of drugs into Jordan across the northern bor…

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