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...intently to the local man, who speaks Arabic in a faint voice. (Abdi Salan's native tongue is Somali, but he understands enough Arabic to get by.) The man is tall, lean and dark, wearing a flowing white Arab robe and headdress. He is flanked by a pair of shorter, younger subordinates in Western clothes. The smugglers agree to help Abdi Salan cross the Sahara to Libya, where he hopes to board a boat to Europe. Up until this point, his journey has been routine. But Abdi Salan knows that from here on in, each step must be taken undercover...
...much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...
LaBelle says she tries hard to eat smart--avoiding salt and fried chicken, eating cheese-steak sandwiches without cheese or bread. "I can be bad," she admits. "But I know the badder I am, the shorter my life. And I'm not ready to leave...
Louis Bakens, who manages Eijsbouts’s international business, said that the Lowell bells will not be so difficult, because they are in a shorter tower and consist of many fewer bells...
...shorter event, Grant, senior Jonathan Lin and freshman Joe Christiana converged on the wall within 1.33 seconds of one another—Grant touched in 57.52, Lin in 58.30 and Christiana...