Many of these allegations were at least partially true: carbon dioxide scrubbers were secretly installed, supplies were smuggled in, and the management and crew were indeed long-time members of a decidedly non-mainstream group.
Supplies are smuggled through tunnels and along dirt roads, over rivers and on the backs of donkeys through rough mountain terrain, in order to reach those communities that are cut off from all basic support.
Cannon and other supplies were smuggled out of Boston and Charlestown.
The deal, as later alleged by General Nicholas Olenga, an associate of the former Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, was part of an arrangement to help troops opposed to the Congolese government trade ivory and gold for arms supplies secretly smuggled to them by Amin.
He was juggling 20 patients with only eight beds, no clean water and what few supplies could be smuggled in by a colleague who, because he is Christian, could pass checkpoints more easily.
Farmer Trudi McPhee smuggled supplies to British troops - driving through the dark over the rough terrain in convoy, despite the dangers.
The group smuggled supplies for refugees and hospitals into Syria.
Reporting for Al Jazeera from Syria's northern province of Idlib, Anita McNaught followed activists as they smuggled supplies for makeshift hospitals across the Turkish border into the restive province.
The rebels said they have a good supply of Kalashnikovs, smuggled into the city covertly since the initial uprising was crushed in March, as well as 9mm pistols and homemade bombs.
