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	smuggling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One method of combatting smuggling is to legalise the activity the smugglers are undertaking and reducing or eliminating the taxes which the smugglers are avoiding.
		Smuggling now is considerably diversified: the smuggling of immigrants, armaments, illegal drugs, as well as the historical staples of smuggling, alcohol and tobacco are widespread throughout the Western world.
		A large number of suspected smugglers are caught each year by airport police worldwide.
	en.mcfly.org /smuggling (280 words)

	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mule is a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere.
		The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
		Legal drugs like tobacco can be the subject of smuggling and illegal trading if the price difference between the smuggled-from and the smuggled-to country are high enough to make it profitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_smuggling (2591 words)

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		Drug use is much older than the emergence of the nation state.
		The American Cosa nostra was the number one drug syndicate in the world from the end of world war 2 until the 1970s when the French connection was broken and followed up by the "pizza" cases.
		Drug trafficking is perhaps organized crimes most profitable activity, it is in fact the main activity of most of the world's criminal groups.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /cartels.html (955 words)

	Israeli Drug Smugglers' Global Monopoly On Ecstasy
		Drug abuse and related crimes have been considered byproducts of affluent nations, spoiled by wealth and comfort.
		According to a report of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 75 percent of all crime in Israel is drug-related.
		Offering $200 finder's fees, the drug rings were able to infiltrate yeshivas and rabbinical seminaries, and recruit individuals who looked innocent enough to pass through customs without suspicion.
	www.rense.com /general24/israelidrugsmugglers.htm (3299 words)

	List of famous drug smugglers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drug dealers, opium traders, opium smugglers, drug runners and the like have grown rich, sometimes creating family dynasties, in the illicit trade of transporting drugs against the laws of 19th century China, 20th century Europe and the United States.
		Edwin Adams Cotto, who died during riot in Dominican Republic, convicted along Laura Hernandez and others of drug smuggling.
		Robert Doolan (Owned DS Ltd - Doolan and Sheldon Ltd) Notably, Robert also liased with the chuckle brothers when they were accused of cocaine abuse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_drug_smugglers (285 words)

	Smuggle - Treasures
		Smugglers like to use the most direct and uncomplicated route, but will use a round-about way of getting there, if they believe it helps achieve their goal.
		Cuzco was a principal city of the Inca Empire and Miami is known as the Gateway to South America.
		Actual Case:While assigned in Florida Charlie seized $410,000 cash from drug smugglers as they were getting ready to fly part of their ill-gotten gains to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, where they had set up a "front company" through which they would return the money to the U.S. as so-called "legitimate" business activity.
	www.smugglegame.com /treasures.html (1111 words)

	Loompanics Unlimited -- Controversial and Unusual Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As in any war (even an unofficial one, declared unilaterally), loss of life among combatants is to be expected, but the killing of innocents, the arbitrary application of the law, the widespread corruption, and the destruction of Constitutional rights and international human rights cannot be excused or tolerated.
		The most famous citizen's tribunal was the International Tribunal on US War Crimes in Indo-China, formed in 1966 by philosopher Bertrand Russell with the assistance of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and others.
		These witnesses would include parents whose property was seized because their minor children allegedly had drugs, and hotel owners whose businesses were seized because a guest allegedly made a drug transaction in one of the rooms.
	www.loompanics.com /Articles/TribunalofUSDrug.html (1143 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Mexico -- Drug killings, garbage hit once chic Acapulco
		Drug gangs brought chaos to one of Acapulco's main avenues during broad daylight last Friday in a shootout with each other and dozens of police.
		A sport utility vehicle blew up in a grenade blast, suspects fired from inside a church and four drug gunmen posing as federal police were killed in the clash, which was captured on television and broadcast nationwide.
		Drug smugglers are increasingly using bays and coves near Acapulco to land cocaine from Colombia and then take it overland to the United States.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/mexico/20060131-0727-mexico-acapulco.html (893 words)

	Addiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The illegality of the fl markets purveying the drug trade is relative to geographic location, and the producing countries of the drug markets (many South American, Far East, and Middle East countries) are not as inclined to have "zero-tolerance" policies, as the consuming countries of the drug trade (mostly United States and Europe) are.
		A mule is a lower-echelon criminal hired by a smuggling organization travel carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere.
		The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
	imedclin.com /addiction.htm (4084 words)

	frontline: drug wars: press reaction \| PBS
		The dealers and smugglers tend to rivet the attention because they are not the usual fodder for documentaries.
		The other unavoidable problem in trying to piece together an oral history from the drug kingpins, the pols, and the cops is that viewers can't quite be sure which of these parties might be taking greater liberties with the truth.
		'Drug Wars' is at its best simply hammering home the folly of US policy, whether it be through footage of American servicemen in Vietnam using their weapon as marijuana pipes or by quoting cocaine runner Carlos Torro's mocking assessment that the 'DEA was just like the sun.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/etc/press.html (1006 words)

	Heroin - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals.
		The war on drugs must not in the future be sacrificed to other foreign policy considerations," stated the report [3].
		The half-life of these antagonists is usually much shorter than that of the opiate drugs they are used to block, so the antagonist usually has to be re-administered multiple times until the opiate has been metabolized by the body.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Heroin (3545 words)

	Drug War Chronicle, Issue #309
		By strong-arming national leaders into regressive drug policies that directly harm the people of those nations, they are alienating citizenries throughout the region, thereby undermining their allies and the rest of their policy objectives.
		Drug use would be a public health matter, not a matter for the "repressive apparatus." Personal drug use and possession would continue to be decriminalized "based on the constitutional principles of personal autonomy and free development of the personality."
		Drug dealers and users on police lists are found shot to death on a regular basis, and while police blame drug gang wars for the killings, everyone else is pointing at shady vigilante death squads.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/309/full.shtml (10107 words)

	Author investigates CIA complicity in global drug trade
		Although there were complaints about Hekmatyar's brutality and drug trafficking within the ranks of the Afghan resistance of the day, the CIA maintained an uncritical alliance and supported him without reservation or restraint.
		It tries to establish a direct link between CIA operations and drug distribution in the U.S. According to Mercury reporter Gary Webb, this dark alliance began in the early 1980s when the Contra revolt against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government was failing for want of funds.
		This pattern of CIA complicity in drugs proceeds from the internal logic of its covert operations, an inadvertent consequence of a style of indirect intervention abroad.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/1997_05/19970508.html (2206 words)

	Powderburns North & Drugs
		Between 1985 to 1991, Castillo was the Drug Enforcement Administration's main agent in El Salvador, where, he says, he uncovered "and reported" a huge drug and gun smuggling operation that was run out of the Ilopango military airport by the 'North Network' and the CIA.
		Castillo posed as a member of one of the drug cartels, he said, and almost immediately became aware of the drug smuggling operations at Ilopango's hangars 4 and 5.
		Huge quantities of drugs and guns were being smuggled through Ilopango by mercenary pilots hired by North, Castillo wrote.
	powderburns.org /north.html (1697 words)

	Drug War Chronicle, Issue #354
		Drug reformers hailed the election results as a bellwether and a victory for the cause of repealing the Rockefeller laws.
		Certainly, some drug traffickers will turn out to have ties to terrorist groups; but that doesn't mean that indiscriminately targeting all users and sellers of all drugs is even a remotely efficient way of tracking down or dismantling or disempowering perpetrators of terrorism.
		Drug warriors have sought to stigmatize their opponents as 'legalizers.' Now it turns out this label may be a compliment.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/354/full.shtml (9880 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Galicia drug runners test Spain
		Spain's Socialist government says the war on drugs is working - with 80% more cocaine seized at the beginning of this year than in the same period last year.
		It means the drug, heroin, and a female hero, which is what Carmen Avendano is. She created the association of women from nothing.
		And although most of the cocaine smuggled into Galicia is for distribution elsewhere in Spain and Europe, he said quality cocaine was cheaper in Galicia than on most of the rest of the continent.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/4743451.stm (1211 words)

	Soldiers Online Feature Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Both are looking for the same thing -- any sign of the drug smugglers that they, and the UH-60's Army crew, are tasked with stopping.
		The South American drug cartels that sprang up in the 1970s quickly realized the strategic value of the sparsely populated region, and the islands soon became a vital transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the United States.
		The police forces of the Bahamas and the British-administered Turks and Caicos islands were ill-equipped to locate and stop the smugglers' aircraft and small boats.
	www.army.mil /soldiers/sep2001/features/opbat1.html (2030 words)

	Canada Drug Talk: May 2004
		For example, a senior citizen paying for his or her own prescription drugs must pay, on average, twice as much for the drugs as the drug companies’ favored customers (large insurance companies and health maintenance organizations).
		The retired hotel operator, who spent more than $17,000 on drugs last year to treat his congestive heart disease, pulmonary disease and kidney failure, is convinced the government's new deal is not a good one.
		According to 21 U.S.C. § 381(d), re-importation of FDA approved prescription drugs (drugs that are manufactured in the U.S. and exported to Canada) is illegal.
	www.canadadrugtalk.com /2004/05/index.html (1970 words)

	Drug War: Propaganda Due (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Despite some assertions that all currently illegal drugs are "detestible" and their use will "stunt the mind, inhibit the body, and curtail productivity" is just plainwrong in many cases, this article does make some very valid and rational points.
		The drug, called ibogaine, is based on an active principle found in the iboga plant, found in Gabon, and reportedly eliminates the withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with heroin addiction by blocking brain receptors that have previously been affected by the drug."
		School zones were initially conceived as a way to protect children from drug activity, but 88 percent of arrests for drug crimes in school zones in Connecticut happen during the hours when school is not in session.
	www.drugwar.com /propagandadue.shtm (14681 words)

	05/20/02 - Abolishing America (contd.): Mexican Army, Police Ignore Border
		Tancredo does get from Mexico is that the incursions were in pursuit of drug smugglers.
		Mexicans covering for drug smugglers is not necessarily the issue, however.
		They have automatic rifles, and we have handguns." Mexican military support for illegal drug smuggling, he said, is "a definite possibility." Aside from their profound patriotic attachment to the nation's lost territories, Mexican cops and soldiers are not exactly famous for their honesty.
	www.vdare.com /francis/border_problems.htm (736 words)

	The Adlers
		Although Patti Adler is perhaps best known as a deviance expert, she is also credited by many to be one of the world's foremost experts on the area of drug dealers and drug smugglers.
		One of her most famous contributions is found in her work Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community, which chronicles the world of dealing and smuggling after six years of intensive field research and interviews, receiving an honorable mention in 1987 for the SSSI Charles Horton Cooley Award.
		Some other areas of her research include the personal power in adolescent cliques, women and deviance, and a still-in-progress study on resort workers in Hawaii.
	socsci.colorado.edu /SOC/SI/si-adlers.htm (312 words)

	disinformation \| the tribunal on us drug war crimes
		This would include the unnamed man who was shot in the leg in front of his family because, according to the police, he was an Hispanic driving the same kind of jeep as a known drug dealer.
		· People who have had their property seized because the authorities claimed they were involved with illegal drugs yet who were never tried and, in many cases, never even charged with a crime.
		Additionally, they have many important contacts who could arrange for such a proceeding, which could perhaps be underwritten by the Lindesmith Center and/or other well-financed organizations that call for drug law reform.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1434/pg1/index.html (1070 words)

	Miami Vice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Anyway, the day Crockett and Easton got married, a crazed drug lord came by and blew her away, while a current rock song played on the soundtrack.
		The premise was that Crockett and Tubbs's clothes, cars, and yacht were confiscated goods from busted drug dealers and loaned to vice for the cops that go undercover.
		That means they had to be provided the same style of clothes and expensive cars as the drug dealers they were out to bust.
	www.jumptheshark.com /m/miamivice.htm (15491 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Mexico suspect pleads innocence
		The most dramatic arrest was the August 1998 capture of Daniel Arizmendi, who was notorious for sending victims' ears to their families.
		Mr Larrieta said police were investigating a possible link between Mr Tinoco and one of Mexico's most famous drug smugglers, the now-imprisoned and convicted Hector Palma.
		A BBC correspondent says Mr Tinoco is believed to be responsible for 11 kidnappings over the past 15 months, mostly among Mexico City's wealthy Jewish community.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/698516.stm (356 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sparrow Hawk Red: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Benito, formerly with the Drug Enforcement Agency, is teaching his son to fly--illegally, since Ricky's only 13.
		Ricky (Ricardo) lives with his father in a border town in Arizona.They live right nextdoor to Mexico, a famous drug trafficing country.Ricky's mother died of a saposidly accidental death that was caused y drug smugglers seeking revenge against Ricky's dad.
		When Ricky gets interested in his mom's death he runs away and flys to Mexico and steal the drug smugglers' plane that is unfortunatly in their compound.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786810025 (753 words)

	The Mena Airport, Arkansas, with Photo Gallery
		One of them is the CIA, and the other one are drug smugglers.
		Now don't get me wrong -- I'm for drug legalization, and I have a number of good reasons for thinking that way. However, I have a problem with a government that wants to lock people up for using a product that the government itself is supplying.
		But anyway what you need to do, if you're a CIA or a drug smuggler is you need an airplane that can do things that normally airplanes of the civilian variety are not allowed to do.
	mena.pamrotella.com (843 words)

	frenchconnection
		This criminal takes Popeye out of the city limits, and one of the most famous car chase scenes takes place.
		The movie does take a little while to get into the action, as throughout the movie, one cat and mouse game between the drug smugglers and two detectives takes place.
		The chase scene alone is enuogh reason to watch this five Academy Award Winner.
	www.geocities.com /katjemovies/frenchconnection (133 words)

	The Famous Five - Completing the Series - Famous Five Quiz
		This is a follow-up to my previous quiz "Enid Blyton's Famous Five".
		In this quiz we complete the series of the adventures of The Five.
		The Five go on holiday in Cornwall and help to catch drug smugglers!
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?id=123110 (142 words)

	.: Albany Democrat-Herald :. Archives
		Popular successes on the list include “The French Connection,’’ an action-packed film in which Gene Hackman plays a cop tracking down international drug smugglers.
		The 1933 film was initially banned for its sexual content before Warner Bros. released an expurgated version.
		“The films we choose are not necessarily the ‘best’ American films ever made or the most famous, but they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance,’’ Billington said.
	www.dhonline.com /articles/2005/12/27/news/nation/nat01.txt (491 words)

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