“In one case, reservists from the Paratrooper Reconnaissance Battalion identified a Bedouin pick-up truck...”
Here I thought the Bedouins were kind of like the Amish, still tooling around on their traditional camels, like in “Laurence of Arabia”. Apparently, they’re more like rednecks of the desert now.
Rednecks don’t traffic in drugs or arms, or slaves. They’re more like the Fuk Ching and Latin King gangsters of the dessert.
Lawrence of Arabia was a crock, anyway. The entire “rebellion” was a ploy by the British to cheat France out of Syria. It was only partially successful on that score. But anyway, they did not make a glorious march across the dessert to take Aqaba, or Damascus, or anywhere. The British just tried to make it look that way so they could withhold territory from France’s agreed-upon sphere. Lawrence was not a gibbering lunatic in the end, either, just a junior partner in the Cairo-Khartoum cabal, the consequences of whose folly continue to twist the Middle East to this day. But that’s a long story.