11.   Large vehicles used in smuggling operations are left for days in Douglas residential areas.

12.   Long involved in smuggling operations, the Banyamulenge were no strangers to modern weapons, and the Zairian army is one of the worst in the world.

13.   Many in the IRA profit handsomely from the guns, using them to advance smuggling operations and to extort protection money out of drug dealers.

14.   None has provided any evidence that Galbraith conducted a secret arms smuggling operation.

15.   On a recent night, Esquivel and other agents questioned then released three young Mexicans whose two-way radio crackled with information about a looming drug smuggling operation.

16.   The army patrols the country with riverboats, helicopters, and high-tech radar in efforts to catch drug smuggling operations.

17.   They also obtained evidence that the conspirators were falsifying federal import forms that are filed under penalty of perjury in order to cover up their illegal smuggling operations.

18.   U.S. authorities say Palma, who ran heroin, cocaine and marijuana smuggling operations, imported tons of heroin into the United States each year.

19.   Police were also investigating a suspected livestock smuggling operation.

20.   A Canadian diplomat has been recalled to Ottawa after Israeli police investigated him for involvement in a drug smuggling operation in Israel, officials said.