Word: libyans
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...mind: Will the truck be there? Will it be able to evade the Sudanese security forces? Is the Sahara as unforgiving as they say? When he arrives around 8 p.m., with 24 other Somalis, there is good news and bad. Yes, they will be leaving tonight for the Libyan border, but they will be making the trip in a single well-worn flatbed truck. "It's just luck which truck you wind up in," Abdi Salan says. The Somalis cram into the back with their meager belongings and are told to stay silent. They roll out of Khartoum...
...anguish after 13 still-unidentified Somalis were found dead from exposure in the hull of a fishing boat off the coast of Lampedusa, a small island south of Sicily. Accounts from survivors indicated that as many as 60 other Somalis had died on the journey, which began on the Libyan coast on Oct. 3. Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, who estimated that several hundred people have died this year in the waters between North Africa and Sicily, said the latest tragedy "weighs on the conscience of Europe." Pisanu implored his European counterparts to fight the human-smuggling trade, noting that most...
...effort to convince African heads of state to visit Iraq. Such visits would break the embargo on flights to the country, and Baghdad hoped this would undermine the UN sanctions regime. The inspiration for the project, al-Zahawie suspects, had been recent visits by African leaders to Libyan leader Muammar Ghadafi, which had broken the embargo on flights to that country...
...Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi agreed last week to pay up to $5 million to relatives of each of the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103, downed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. He also sent a statement to the U.N. Security Council in which his country renounced terrorism and accepted responsibility for the actions of a Libyan spy found guilty of blowing up the aircraft. A U.S.-backed agreement calls on the U.N. to permanently lift sanctions on Libya, which were suspended in 1999 after Gaddafi handed over two suspects...
...Muammar Gaddafi finally ready to make amends? In an interview with TIME, the Libyan ruler said his country will accept responsibility under international law for the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. In exchange for Libya's admission and payments of $2.7 billion to the families of victims, he said, the U.N. sanctions that have blocked the world from doing business with Libya would be lifted - and eventually the U.S. would end its own sanctions and remove Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. But the ever-erratic ruler...