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"The rescues of the Blue Sky M two days ago and of the Ezadeen show that smugglers are finding new ways to enter EU territory," a spokesperson told AFP. "To prevent such events and to protect the lives of migrants, fighting smuggling will continue to be a priority under the commission's agenda for comprehensive migration in 2015," the spokesperson said.

But Ismail Caliskan, director of Turkey's police unit fighting smuggling and organized crime, said the danger from nuclear smuggling had been exaggerated.

For example, fighting nuclear smuggling requires stronger export controls everywhere that sensitive technologies may be bought, sold or traded.

In a reported alliance with a cartel called the Beltrán-Leyva brothers, they are fighting for smuggling routes into Arizona.

He said Hamas was constructing positions and fortifications, building tunnels for fighting and smuggling in explosives, antitank weapons and more sophisticated rockets through the Egyptian desert.

General McCaffrey listed several areas in which the United States hopes to gain cooperation, including sharing intelligence about drug operations, curbing money laundering, controlling precursor chemicals, analyzing seized drugs to identify their sources and fighting the smuggling of weapons.

Whereas spasms of violence in Mexico used to be caused by a few big drug organizations fighting for smuggling routes, now, especially in Michoacán, the motives and number of players have metastasized, he said: "What you have are more groups, more local in their scope".

But with the details still murky — and in a region where American power has been viewed with skepticism since the cold war — Honduran officials and human rights organizations have begun calling for an investigation that could redefine, or limit, what has become an increasingly active American role in fighting drug smuggling through the region.

Both countries have vowed to stem a steady flow of asylum boats in recent years, but Tantowi Yahya, a member of Indonesia's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, said the Captain Emad revelations undermined Canberra's claim to be fighting the smuggling trade.

"We're fighting illegal smuggling of weapons.

Wasser said the key action should be increasing political pressure on countries by tying international aid to progress on fighting poaching and smuggling.