(Los Angeles Times) Along 400 miles of lonely desert along the Iraq-Syria frontier, U.S. Marines have begun an aggressive effort to block weapons and foreign fighters from flowing into Iraq through one of the world's most notorious smuggling corridors. Marines discovered an arms cache including antiaircraft missiles that they believe was stored no more than 24 hours earlier. In a recent interview with a Lebanese newspaper, Syrian President Assad suggested that smuggling was endemic and unstoppable.
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