In the seventeen months since he pleaded guilty, he has helped to widen the U.S. investigation into fossil smuggling, providing details about specific specimens, dates, and locations.
While in the short term we can best assist the Egyptians with technical know-how and training, long term counter smuggling success will depend on reducing the financial incentives to smuggling by providing the Sinai Bedouin with legitimate economic opportunities and by regularly opening the Gaza borders to trade, thereby reducing economic incentives to smuggle.
It did not work in Sierra Leone because a principal party to the eight-year civil war that supposedly ended last year never disarmed, never relinquished territory and never gave up the diamond smuggling that provided it with motive and means to wage more war.
At first glance, the deal is an attempt to curtail smuggling and provide vital humanitarian aid for Syrians fleeing a war that has been raging for five years.
At first glance the deal is an attempt to curtail smuggling and provide vital humanitarian aid for Syrians fleeing a war which has been raging for five years.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Almost 4,000 United States Marines, backed by helicopter gunships, pushed into the volatile Helmand River valley in southwestern Afghanistan early Thursday morning to try to take back the region from Taliban fighters whose control of poppy harvests and opium smuggling in Helmand provides major financing for the Afghan insurgency.
The first came late last fall, Mr. Williams said, when the immigration authorities encountered a smuggling case that provided investigative leads concerning the larger smuggling network.
Mexicans are mutilating, decapitating, torturing and killing each other, ostensibly over money and the drug smuggling routes that provide it.
Israel accuses him of organizing attacks on Israelis, producing explosives, smuggling weapons and providing shelter to members of terror groups.
They pooled resources such as gunmen and transportation for drug smuggling, and also provided protection for each other by bribing Mexican officials.
