"ملف ٢/ ٢ I التهريب بين الكويت والعراق" [و‎‎٦‎٦] (٤٤٤/١٣٦)

loads wufficient to fill their boats; approximately 10 to
30 bags of sugar or other dutiable articles. The crews
then try and get back under cover of night, either by enteriig
the Shatt al Arab and creeping past Fao Customs Post, or
dumping their cargoes on the "boggy" mud flats existing at
the top end of the Khor Abdulla, v’dience confederates at
once take the goods over, and hide them in the many villages
and hamlets existing in the Palm belt of the Shatt al Arab,
It is true that occasionally small Kuwait dhows
are hired to run these cargoes, but they are the exception
and not the rule.
Method (S) is managed as follows, and as far as
one can gather, much the bigger volume of contraband traf- i
fic goes into IRAQ this way: For six months in each year
Kuwait State Kuwait is overrun by the Buntafik and Eamar
Lake shepherd tribes. Approximately some 15,000 persons
male and female enter Kuwait after the first fall of rain
(November) and spread themselves like locusts over the
whole country from Safwan to the Kuwait Neutral Zone and
as far west as Rigai in the Batin, These people are all
the time sending parties into Kuwait to sell their sheep>
wool and gh©© and in return buy food and. clothing, part of
which is of course for their own legitimate needs, but a
large portion is for passing on to confederates, who come down
from the Nupherates from as far west as Saznawa and live with
them until such time as they can run the stufx they have
bought across the western frontier of Kuwait, .these con
federates are all tough and well armed customers, who dress
and look like shepherds. They arrive with plenty of money
either come into the town and buy themselves, or depute
the shpherd tribal women to do so. The contraband so run
usually goes through to the thickly populated tribal country