23 tons of smuggled "minerals?"
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Those are great confiscation numbers. Notice that the border guards are actually venturing away from their border posts on actual *patrols*!
Large scale confiscations. Numerous arrests. Actual patrols. Guards wearing uniforms and actually knowing their jobs.
That's a functioning government in action.
Kudos to the U.S. Administration for what's been accomplished in Iraq so soon.