However, their efforts were thwarted; the shipment, flown via British Airways, was blocked by federal officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport.
Large imported shipments, originally flown into New York, Los Angeles or Miami, are then broken down and sent out by regular overnight delivery services, like Federal Express, to midlevel dealers in other cities.
The Venezuelan shipment flies in the face of international efforts to isolate Mr. Assad and pressure him to step down, but Mr. Chávez is no stranger to such controversy.
When Antonio visits Maya's home in the countryside, he learns that in Laverde's youth he was a pilot, a hippie who flew shipments of marijuana and cocaine into the United States, where he was arrested and given a 19-year sentence.
Relief agencies flew the shipments to the area until Sudanese rebels shot down a supply plane on Aug 16.
He hired pilots to fly shipments of cocaine from Colombia to private landing strips in Mexico.
Urgent aid shipments are being flown in from Dubai to help agencies cope with the tens of thousands of people caught up in the conflict, as Mark Lobel reports.
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The Americans weren't too happy about all the eastern Africans legally munching away on khat in the UK because it meant that anyone looking to fly shipments of it over to the US wouldn't run into trouble this side of the Atlantic.
