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U.S. Marines keep watch as others board a ship during an anti-smuggling operation outside the port of Umm Qasr, in southern Iraq Sunday Oct. 19, 2003. Coalition forces have mounted a campaign to combat the smuggling of oil and other goods from Iraq's southern ports. Officials estimate that 2000 tonnes of oil, the equivalent of 65 road tanker loads, were being smuggled out of Umm Qasr each day, before the anti-smuggling operation began two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)