NATIONAL POST.com: "POLICE SUSPECT CANADIANS IN IRAQI SMUGGLING" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two Canadians suspected of trying to smuggle eight Iraqis into the United States were deported to Toronto on Friday after being held in Jamaica for four days. A Jamaican official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Ali Hussein Dalloul, 29, and Mazin Odish, 26, both of Windsor, Ont., may have been trying to smuggle the Iraqis into Canada or the United States via Cuba, Jamaica and Belize, using false travel documents. No one has been charged with a crime.") (February 17, 2003)
***An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an CHANNEL5BELIZE.com article: "10 IRAQIS DETAINED IN JAMAICA WERE HEADED TO BELIZE" (CHANNEL5BELIZE.com ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Jamaican police are remaining tight-lipped about the status of ten Iraqis who are being held in Montego Bay. The men arrived in the resort town on Sunday and were in transit on route to Belize. They flew into Jamaica on a flight from Cuba before becoming stranded after their flight to Belize from Jamaica was cancelled.") (February 13, 2003)
***MIAMI.com - THE MIAMI HERALD: "FOUR CUBAN BORDER GUARDS ARRIVE IN KEYS UNDETECTED" by Jennifer Babson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KEY WEST - Four armed defectors from Cuba's border guard, clad in green camouflage and black boots, walked onto Key West's main drag after arriving undetected early Friday -- the same day that the U.S. attorney general put the nation on a heightened state of terrorist alert. The men tied their 30-foot go-fast boat behind the Hyatt Key West Resort and Marina, stashing it within a short distance of the Coast Guard station, which failed to spot their 4 a.m. arrival. Police found two AK-47s and eight magazines of ammunition inside the Cigarette speedboat. The incident occurred six days after five Cuban fishermen in a large rickety boat landed on U.S. Naval property close to a cruise ship.") (February 8, 2003)