Iraq: April 22, 2001

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German intelligence reports that Iraq is making more money smuggling illegal immigrants out of Iraq than from their illegal drug trade. The Iraqi government takes a cut of the fees illegal migrants pay to smuggling gangs. Some of the money is used to buy weapons building equipment from German firms. 

 

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