Smuggling, conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions.
Even with the most sophisticated intelligence hardware, including spy satellites, it is difficult to spot the clandestine movement of small containers of plutonium or enriched uranium.
He joined the more mainstream Muslim Brotherhood in 1979, a group that has weathered ferocious crackdowns, instilling in it the iron discipline of a clandestine movement.
And seven years after its return from exile, it has neither shaken its reputation as being beholden to Iran nor has it managed to outgrow the reflexive suspicion of a clandestine movement.
The government has portrayed the group as a clandestine movement of foreign-backed militants, citing as evidence the use of explosives, the blocking of roads and burning of tires during violent confrontations with the police.
In the 18th century, Quicavi was the center of a clandestine movement of Huilliche Indian warlocks, who used curses and poisonous potions to resist the Spanish colonial landowners around this island, called Isla Grande de Chiloe.
Many smuggling agents are ethnic Kurds, who are often persecuted and hunted in their homelands -- mostly Iraq and Turkey -- and are therefore familiar with the vagaries and demands of clandestine movement.
The only male who rises to something close to a hero is a recurring secondary character, Skink — an ex-governor of Florida, a sort of Lawton Chiles with survivalist training, who has been so sickened by corruption and exploitation that he has become an Everglades guerrilla, leading a clandestine movement against the polluters and greed merchants.
Tim Blunk, who spent 13 years in prison after his arrest in 1984 in New Jersey for possession of more than 600 pounds of explosives in connection with what he characterized as "an armed clandestine movement trying to stop the wars in Central America," got big laughs with tales of his jailhouse dreams, including one about flying on the space shuttle.
In vastly asymmetrical ways, Mr. Hussein's opponents in exile practiced a style of politics the dictator himself honed — the insularity and secrecy of a clandestine movement — and the dissident leaders brought it with them when they returned after the American invasion.
