1.   Most smuggled diamonds, stolen or illegally mined, have turned up in Antwerp, where both the Belgian government and the EU have turned a blind eye.

2.   Taylor overthrew the Liberian government and has stirred up insurgencies in Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso, the arms paid for with smuggled diamonds.

3.   The target is a Palm Springs jewelry store where, on a certain day every year a Russian mobster delivers a shipment of smuggled diamonds worth millions.

4.   U.N. sanctions sought to stop the flow of guns and the smuggled diamonds to buy them.

5.   Turay claimed smuggled Sierra Leonean diamonds are being resold openly on markets in Amsterdam, New York and elsewhere in the developed world.