The Multinational Interdiction Force (MIF) is supposed to board and search every vessel entering or leaving Iraqi waters.
WOODEN dhows, the Gulf's traditional sailing vessels, are busy ferrying illicit consumer goods into Iraq under the noses of the UN-backed interdiction force that has been patrolling the Gulf's international waters since 1991.
On the drug issue, Mr. Garcia said he favored tracking drug-laden airplanes with radar and stopping them with a joint interdiction force, provided that agreement can be reached with his neighbors and with the United States.
Last July, when a big oil spill hit Sharjah, yet another emirate, the multinational Maritime Interdiction Force that enforces the trade embargo on Iraq revealed that the leaked 20,000 tonnes had indeed been smuggled out of Iraq.So why the Iranian connection?
"Interdiction task forces continue to make arrests and seizures [of drugs from this trafficking route] in Iowa, and as far away as Atlanta, Georgia.
In Oklahoma, a Caddo County district attorney hired a private company, Desert Snow L.L.C., to train a local drug-interdiction task force.
The following year, 14 Hornets from No. 75 Squadron deployed to the Middle East to support the invasion of Iraq, escorting high-value Coalition aircraft and later providing close air support to ground troops and air interdiction against Iraqi forces, the first time the RAAF had delivered bombs in anger since the Vietnam War.
"There may also be a case for using special forces of interdiction to destroy the boats before they leave port".
Peru halted aerial interdiction after an air force pilot killed a United States missionary and her child in a 2001 attack on a plane wrongly identified as carrying drugs.
Its arms-control specialists, such as John Bolton, fantasize that they can stop nuclear proliferation the way the British Navy once tried to stop the slave trade: through military force and interdiction at sea.
