21.   A U.S. undercover agent posing as a ship captain thwarted a major Chinese immigrant smuggling operation, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.

22.   Armscor, Kentron and Fuchs were involved in a massive international arms smuggling operation for the apartheid-era government.

23.   But U.S. officials believe that it is inconceivable that such a largescale smuggling operation could take place without the approval and cooperation of the Iranian government.

24.   But that enterprising nature evolved into trouble after Garza returned to his hometown of Brownsville, Texas, where he started a drug smuggling operation.

25.   Customs officers said they were uncertain whether the Haitian nationals were being smuggled into the United States or were part of the drug smuggling operation.

26.   Djukanovic indicated he was behind a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling operation that transits Montenegro on the way to black markets in Western Europe.

27.   Garza was convicted of running a marijuana smuggling operation, killing one man, and ordering the slayings of two others he thought were informants.

28.   He claimed arms are being bought with money from lucrative cigarette and drug smuggling operations between Macedonia and Kosovo.

29.   He was also found guilty of ordering the deaths of two other men as part of a marijuana smuggling operation.

30.   He was charged with being part of a drug smuggling operation after being stopped by police in Mobile last year.