Camels With Arms

(Pakistan) Regional police of the Kurram Agency raided a smuggler's den about 4am Saturday in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. After a firefight, the smugglers fled, leaving behind 12 camels laden with weapons and ammunition. Confiscated were kalashanikovs, light machine guns, bags of gunpowder, and a large quantity of ammunition.

Typically, one would expect smuggling to be an activity that is hidden, conducted on the sly. A caravan of a dozen camels hauling several tons of arms would likely not fit that characterization. It's more like smuggling in plain view and I'm sure a Predator unmanned eye-in-the-sky could track the camel train all the way across the mountains. The bigger questions are: Where do the arms originate and how are they paid for?