1.   Angola prevents its own rebels from using Congo as a conduit for diamond smuggling.

2.   Liberia recently arrested a British TV crew investigating reports of diamond smuggling by President Charles Taylor.

3.   The report says Liberia is at the center of diamond smuggling from Sierra Leone and recommends an embargo against Liberia.

4.   In the past, Angola accused another southern African government, Zambia, of giving UNITA direct logistical support and allowing diamond smuggling and weapons transit to take place.

5.   Liberian President Charles Taylor, facing the threat of U.N. sanctions over accusations of weapons and diamond smuggling with Sierra Leonean rebels, was among the celebrants.

6.   Taylor profited from diamond smuggling out of neighboring Sierra Leone and rakeoffs from foreign companies.

7.   U.N. sanctions sought to stop the flow of guns and the diamond smuggling that financed them.

8.   Diamond smuggling has been a major problem.

9.   They have been increasingly accused by the Zairean press of being behind diamond smuggling and trafficking in the local currency.

10.   Military experts, however, are convinced the rebels also have access to hard currency and believe this may be the profits of diamond smuggling.