Word: contrabanding
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...still considered to be remote; there is no hard evidence that any terrorist group, including bin Laden's, has a finished nuclear weapon in its arsenal. But not long ago, anthrax seemed a distant threat. And it is possible for the bad guys to assemble an atom bomb with contraband uranium and off-the-shelf parts. "It's not particularly probable, but it's possible,'" says Anthony Cordesman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "The difficulty is that we are dealing with a wide range of low-probability cases...
...Afghanistan is a dusty procession of trucks carrying Korean refrigerators, Japanese auto parts, Apple computers, toys, everything. Even golf clubs going God knows where. There are a lot of sand traps out here, but no fairways, that's for sure. I was witnessing the ebb and flow of global contraband, and nobody is better than smuggling than the Afghans. Their ravening entrepreneurial instincts are honed by centuries...
...ships with ambergris, elephant tusk and rhino horn. Despite Kenya's shoot-to-kill order for wildlife poachers, much of the ivory and rhino horn leaves Africa by air from its capital, Nairobi, or by sea from the nation's largest port, Mombasa. As much as 40% of the contraband ultimately ends up in China, where it is used for medicinal purposes and as a natural Viagra. "Little man eat rhino," says Zhu, in his best English, "little man become very...
...comes from illegally poached animals, according to environmental group Save the Elephants. Although token efforts have been made - so far this year, officials at Shanghai's Pudong Airport have confiscated 1,533 tusks or ivory products - many customs authorities quietly take a cut of the profits and let the contraband through. "There is no sense that these animals should be saved," says a Beijing-born conservationist. "Africa is just seen as one big marketplace...
...joint or a gun. The disparate search figures are stunning. In San Diego, which has released a study of its vehicle stops for the year 2000, both blacks and Hispanics who were stopped by police had a 10% chance of being searched, and whites had only a 3% chance. Contraband was found in about 13% of searches of both whites and blacks--but only in 5% of searches of Hispanics...