| Two recent and notorious cases, involving gunrunning operations in Africa and the spread of nuclear weapons technology, illustrate the challenges that illicit brokering poses. |
| Whether protecting the opium trade, engaging in kidnapping, bank robbery, gunrunning, extortion or human trafficking, takfiri groups on both sides of the frontier today behave more like Mafiosi than mujahidin. |
| They are used for coastal protection and operate in concert with the Customs Authority to fight gunrunning, smuggling and other illegal activities. |
| These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering. |
| Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning. |
| Peruvian investigators are looking into evidence that he might have been involved with gunrunning to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia. |
