Belmokhtar, whose cigarette smuggling activities in the desert earned him the nickname Mr Marlboro, is reported to have begun his career in Afghanistan in the 1980s where he lost an eye.
But others noted that the best-organized political force in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood, which is hostile to Israel and close to Hamas, the Palestinian rulers in Gaza whose weapons-smuggling the Egyptian government works to block.
The cubs, whose parents were smuggled through underground tunnels from Egypt, died Thursday in the Hamas-run Bissan Zoo in Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza.
We look at the work of Bandi, the only known dissident writer living in North Korea, whose work was smuggled out and recently published.
That led to his second and best novel, Dog Soldiers (1974), about a cynical journalist whose decision to smuggle heroin out of Vietnam sets off a chain of events beyond his control.
Get acquainted with the ongoing struggle of the Burmese people against their military government through the brave eyes of 26-year-old video journalist Joshua in this powerful new documentary, whose snatched and smuggled footage charts the latest in a long line of uprisings.
Sponsored by Liberia, the RUF began attacking settlements along the border in 1991 and quickly took control of the diamond mines, whose products they smuggled through Liberia and traded for weapons.
They would stay in safe houses for a few days, and then be passed on to new smuggling cells, whose job was to sneak them across the largely unguarded border into Mexico.
BEIJING — Lai Changxing, an illiterate peasant-turned-billionaire whose legacy of bribery, smuggling and monumental profligacy came to personify the excesses of the economic reform era, was given a life sentence on Friday for his role in what the government has described as modern China's biggest corruption scandal, according to the state news media.
Three other of Ms. Chávez's associates were charged separately after they tried to demand additional payment from relatives to deliver a 3-year-old boy whose mother had been smuggled aboard the truck.
