Word: smuggler
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...light. But in Cigars of the Pharaoh, our cowlicked protagonist owes his life to a passing sea captain, who rescues him and his faithful fox terrier Snowy from the Red Sea, into which they have been thrown overboard. That captain was based on the real-life French adventurer, hashish smuggler and sometime opium grower Henry de Monfreid - and the recent reissue of De Monfreid's beguiling 1933 memoir Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale is a cause for rejoicing among all those who love briny confessionals and barroom brags. De Monfreid was a man who condemned shoes as "cursed things...
...resolves to head for Greece - where the "bringer of dreams" was cultivated and packaged for sale - then grease some palms and have 1,300 lbs. (600 kg) shipped to Djibouti, whence he'd ferry the hashish in his dhow up the Red Sea to Suez. Thus was a drug smuggler born...
...former Liberian president looked relaxed as Canadian diamond expert Ian Smillie - one of the authors of a U.N. reports that accuses Taylor of being a gun smuggler - took the stand and told judges why he believed Taylor needed diamonds so badly. "They're very small, they're high value, they're easy to move [and] historically they've held their price very well," explained Smillie. "In the 1990s, the period we're talking about, they were an alternative to hard currency in countries where there was no hard currency or where people wanted to hide the movement of money...
...case of the kidnapped BBC journalist, it is not a question of where he is being hidden or who his kidnappers are: Everyone in Gaza, and that includes the new rulers Hamas, suspects that Johnston was captured by a notorious arms smuggler and gangster named Mumtaz Dagmush...
Being accepted into Sweden is relatively simple compared with what it takes to actually get there. Iraqis say the odyssey north typically costs $10,000 per person and involves relying on a network of nameless smugglers and middlemen. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm café, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport...