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  • Israel's air force responded by bombing a suspected arms-smuggling route along the Gaza-Egypt border, said the official.

    Peace Talks Enter Day 2, as Militants Shell Israel 2010

  • WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is pushing for a formal censure of Iran and Syria at the United Nations over an arms-smuggling case that U.S. officials see as highlighting the risks that Iranian weapons shipments pose to regional stability.

    U.S. Pushes for U.N. Censure of Iran, Syria on Arms 2009

  • When Israel initiated the offensive, it said its goals were to reduce rocket fire against Israel, weaken Hamas and end its arms-smuggling activities.

    Israel Battles at Edge of Gaza City 2009

  • Elliott Richardson, who was Cyrus Hashemi's attorney in a 1984 arms-smuggling case, said that Cyrus seemed to be dealing in a "remarkably petty" quantity of arms.

    Making Of A Myth 2008

  • Those options include bombing Serbian military positions and blockading Albanian arms-smuggling routes.

    It's Time To 'Get Serious' 2008

  • Even more significant, officials say, Patino played a key role in a massive arms-smuggling network that, in the last three years, funneled 5,000 AK-47 automatic weapons from Eastern Europe through Israel to the AUC, a right-wing paramilitary group that human-rights groups say has been responsible for most of the massacres of Colombian civilians in recent years.

    Periscope 2007

  • Giovanny Hurtado Torres, Banadex's legal representative, was imprisoned in Colombia over the arms-smuggling scheme.

    Chiquita's hundred year history in Colombia Abhay N 2007

  • When, for example, the Mossad tried to persuade the local authorities to start using stricter security measures at Abidjan Airport and to cooperate in foiling arms-smuggling operations, the refusal was polite but firm.

    The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007

  • The statement said that the FBI would investigate arms-smuggling cases linked to foreign spies but that Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division would continue to take the lead in arms and technology smuggling cases not directly linked to espionage.

    Terror Watch: A Bureau Bungle? 2007

  • The discovery has in turn sparked accusations of a larger arms-smuggling operation between the two countries.

    Periscope 2007

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