1.   The rebels have supported their war and enriched their leaders by smuggling diamonds into the international market through Liberia.

2.   Police arrested an Israeli man and two Brazilians Thursday for allegedly smuggling diamonds mined illegally from an Amazon Indian reservation out of the country.

3.   Police shot down a plot to smuggle diamonds via carrier pigeon, killing the bird as it rested while transporting the uncut gems.

4.   Angola has accused its anti-government rebels of smuggling diamonds to buy weapons and supplies shipped through Zambia and South Africa.

5.   Frankel was sentenced this summer to three years in German prison for smuggling diamonds and possessing fake passports.

6.   Smugglers have long used carrier pigeons to smuggle diamonds.

7.   To circumvent the government-granted monopoly, black-market traders smuggled many diamonds out through the neighboring Republic of Congo.

8.   Under threat of international sanctions, Liberia has announced the arrest of six foreigners suspected of smuggling diamonds into the West African country from war-ruined Sierra Leone.

9.   UNITA has bolstered its war effort by smuggling diamonds out of the Lundas.