Several United Nations reports have accused Mr. Makabuza Ngoga of using strong-arm tactics to smuggle minerals from Congo to Rwanda and one report said that he enjoyed "close ties" to Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame.
But Mr. Mathieson said the country's dissidents were reverting to tactics of the past, smuggling images out through cellphones, breaking the files down for reassembly later.
GAZA —The Egyptian military is resorting to a pungent new tactic to shut down the smuggling tunnels connecting Sinai and Gaza: flooding them with sewage.
Because of concerns that terrorists could adopt the tactic to smuggle radioactive and chemical materials into the United States, a military team checks each underground passageway discovered; no residue from such materials has ever been found.
The case was seized on by activists who accused the United States of using heavy-handed tactics in dealing with immigration and human smuggling.
An Egyptian ship owner involved in the smuggling business told the Guardian that his associates used similar tactics, and often left their ships in the hands of untrained charges "who don't know how to sail".
After allied ships cracked down on smuggling by large, steel-hull ships, the Iraqis tried a new tactic.
He would also have faced several witnesses who prosecutors said would testify that Coke ran a small and violent army, known as the Shower Posse because of its tactic of showering its enemies with bullets, to control the smuggling of drugs through Jamaica.
In an interview, a leader of the rebel underground visiting here in the mountains said that the rebels had been smuggling in a growing number of guns as well as C4 plastic explosives, while borrowing a tactic from their mountain allies by making their own crude (and often unsafe) handguns.
He meets a former student, now cleaning lavatories, who asks him to smuggle his thesis back to England and get it translated, something the professor achieves through ethically dubious tactics.
