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...drinking water runs out about 16 hours into the voyage, with the coast of Libya far behind and the old wooden boat chugging through the Mediterranean toward Sicily. But Abdi Salan Mohammed Hassan - a gangly, gentle, 23-year-old Somali man crammed into the open 12-m boat with scores of other Africans, all trying to smuggle themselves into Europe - isn't worried. It has taken him eight months to travel a 4,500-km route from Mogadishu and begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism...
...birthday. He gets advice on the best escape route from someone in the neighborhood whose relative has just made the journey. In the past, fleeing Somalis would travel by boat through the Suez Canal, but now that Egypt has tightened its border controls, the preferred route is overland to Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk him out of it, telling Abdi Salan that the trip is too risky and life will be hard even if he makes it. "I'm a man now," he tells her. "And in life, sometimes a man must suffer." FROM MOGADISHU...
OVERTURNED. The 1983 conviction of EDWIN WILSON, 75, former CIA officer; after a federal judge ruled that prosecutors used false testimony to hide the fact that the CIA had employed him to sell 20 tons of plastic explosives to Libya in the largest illegal weapons deal in U.S. history; in Houston. Wilson is serving 52 years on three separate convictions--including one for attempted murder--but could be eligible for parole this year...
...true humanitarian knows that a body like the U.N. does good, on occasion. But when sparse good works combine with the farcical reality that Libya leads the Human Rights Commission—largely to insulate itself from allegations—and the fact that the U.N.’s rule-by-consensus Security Council has probably done more to diplomatize, coddle and talk about human tragedy than to truly lessen it, it’s time for humanitarians to come to terms with their sacred...
...Already in The Pipeline When the United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya on Sept. 12, some expected a quick inflow of investment to the longtime pariah state. There was money to be made, right? Would Muammar Gaddafi have spent billions to pay off terror victims if he didn't expect a return? But most of the interested players are already there. European oil companies - including France's Total, Spain's Repsol, Germany's Wintershall and Italy's Eni - maintained a dormant presence in Libya after U.N. sanctions were imposed in 1992 for Tripoli's suspected role in the 1988 Lockerbie...