In a parallel phenomenon, armed trafficking gangs in Libya are driving most of Africa's illegal immigration across the Mediterranean to Europe.
Over the last few years, heavily armed trafficking gangs were overwhelming local authorities, terrorising village communities and increasingly posed a security threat, Clinton said.
"If there's an indication that there is armed trafficking going on -- someone selling narcotics while they are armed or have the ability to use a firearm -- then the tactical response team will do the initial entry".
Recent operations included gun-running to the Kurds "in an attempt to destabilise Turkey" and "arms trafficking" in the mysterious Arctic Sea cargo ship hijacking in 2009.
Because the United States was not part of this effort, we had less leverage to corral and coördinate the arms traffic.
The global agencies set up to fight organised crime have bigger priorities: terrorists, arms traffic, narcotics, counterfeit goods.
Stress reversal magnitudes with respect to wind speed and direction are experimentally investigated in a natural wind environment for a typical cantilevered mast arm traffic signal structure.
On 17 March 1938, France reopened the border to arms traffic to the now weakened Republic.
Since then, he's been in and out of the clink several times, serving time for armed robbery and arms trafficking.
