Sentence examples for open smuggling from inspiring English sources
With wide open smuggling tunnels in Rafah and an estimated arsenal of 10,000 rockets in Hamas' possession, it is unclear what military purposes Israel's blockade of Gaza really have served over the past five years, except for preventing ships with weapons from docking in Gaza.
Many more may have died out at sea if open-hulled smuggling boats, often packed with more than a dozen people, capsized or sank.
Getting in the equipment involved opening up smuggling routes across the Syrian border into hotbeds such as Homs and its most badly bombed neighbourhood, Baba Amr, which led Avaaz seemlessly into the next phase of its engagement.
This is a reference to the opening drug-smuggling scene of the film Midnight Express.
But Hamas also used the open border to smuggle in large rockets and other weapons, Israeli officials say.
In the fiscal year ending last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened 646 drug smuggling cases arising from the Nogales port of entry, though it was not clear how many were referred to prosecutors.
Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, described the activists as allies of Hamas and al-Qaida, claiming they would have opened an arms smuggling route to Gaza if they had been permitted to land there.
With the smuggling routes open, it could help get $2m of blood bags, tetanus shots, respiratory machines and other medical supplies into the country, bringing relief to communities that were desperate for help and that more establishment institutions like the ICRC had failed to reach.
We approach the problem of detecting Special Nuclear Material (SNM) smuggling across open borders by modeling a heterogeneous sensor network using an agent-based simulation.
The Tabu have been accused of fomenting violence and instability to keep the border tense and their smuggling routes open.
But the smuggling operation opens an illicit channel in the diamond trade that "makes possible the introduction of conflict diamonds," the report says.
