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While smuggling has been taking place into and out of Iraq ever since Operation Desert Storm (just as it historically flourished in the region for thousands of years before, ) air delivery is particularly appealing insofar as it permits these transactions to take place in a relatively secure and timely fashion.
It is what they have being training forever since the Pentagon formed Special Operations Command in 1986, in the wake of the debacle of Desert One, the failed attempt to spring American hostages from Iran.