And if arms trafficking is not illegal, how can it be stopped?

Today arms trafficking is a global problem, it happens everywhere.

Arms trafficking is another form of crime and it is directly associated with terrorism.

All the talk about restraining arms trafficking remains mostly that - just talk.

Bank robberies, kidnappings, drugs and arms trafficking were the major crimes.

Basayev was tracked via the surveillance of this arms trafficking.

True, all the other witnesses against him in that pathetic attempt by the Feds to stop his arms trafficking had been silenced.

Arms trafficking is smuggling of weapons and ammunition.

Impeding North Korean ships for similar arms trafficking would be hypocritical.

Arms trafficking has become a significant problem in Russia following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile arms trafficking has flooded the country with just under 70% illegal firearms; 83% of homicides in the city are by firearm compared.

Would the arms trafficking have been uncovered?'

Morales stated, "At no time did we know or were we made aware that there might have been arms trafficking permitted.

Eleven French aid workers detained for over a month by Bosnian Serbs on accusations of arms trafficking were released and flown out of Sarajevo.

He was acquitted after his lawyers argued that while arms trafficking was illegal, it was at the time the policy of Ireland to help Catholics in the North.

But profits from prostitution, extortion, smuggled immigrants and arms trafficking can still be laundered through an American bank with no consequence to either the bank or the depositor.

Although arms trafficking is widespread in regions of political turmoil, it is not limited to such areas, and for example, in South Asia, an estimated 63 million guns have been trafficked into India and Pakistan.

And in another sign that Mr. Menem is beginning to lose influence as a lame duck, a federal judge investigating illegal arms trafficking has said he will ask several Cabinet members to testify about activities that forced the resignation of Oscar Camilion as Defense Minister three years ago.