Officials wanted to know how Mr. Kim, who was active in smuggling others out of the country, communicated across the border.
Western officials consider him a notorious militant who had been active in smuggling, kidnapping and fighting for decades in the Sahel, which includes Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
The 24-year-old Emilio Bacardi supported the first Cuban war of independence in 1868, and with its failure became an active revolutionary, smuggling arms and raising money for rebels in the hills.
The Beatles' group also violated the Maharishi's "no alcohol rule" when they consumed "hooch" which Mardas, who Cynthia thought was not an active meditator, "smuggled in" from a nearby village.
"The ones who have been active in human smuggling are now appearing in our files in relation to migrant smuggling," said Donald.
Bjorn Clarberg, an expert on illegal immigration at Europol, the European Union's fledgling united police force, said the most prominent groups active in people smuggling were Turkish and Albanian.
It took an active part in smuggling journalists in and out of Syria but was attacked for over-stating its role in helping Paul Conroy, the photographer travelling with the Sunday Times's Marie Colvin when she was killed, to escape.
Michael Unzueta, the Customs Service's deputy executive director, Operations West, said the town generally ranked among the most active places for drug smuggling and interdiction, along with San Ysidro, Calif., Yuma, Ariz., and El Paso.
"The AFP [Australian Federal Police] currently has over a dozen active investigations into people-smuggling ventures being organised from Australia," he said.
The exclave of Khawr Fakkān on the Gulf of Oman has an active trade, especially in gold smuggling to India; it is the seat of the union's fisheries research station.
