We were not smuggling for money, we were smuggling for our lives.
Tunnels, which support the commercial smuggling for which the Sinai is famous, have been destroyed.
Reliable sources in the country allege that many National Intelligence and Security Service officers have been involved in human smuggling for financial gain.
Drugs, child abuse, prostitution and people smuggling, for example, are not the stuff of which underground heroes are made, needless to say.
Borders are a loose concept in many parts of the Lebanese-Syrian frontier, places where economies have relied on smuggling for generations.
Ethnic Serb leaders defend Mr. Veselinovic, saying the Western powers have exaggerated smuggling for political ends and are also throwing mud at leaders of the demonstrations.
Mr. Bourne sold the cocaine he smuggled for about $18,000 a kilogram and took home the biggest share of the profits, prosecutors said.
Mr. Levinson's family and American officials have said that Mr. Levinson went to Iran to investigate cigarette smuggling for a private client.
He said the fishermen were driven to smuggling for the same reasons that so many migrants are driven from their homeland.
