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Libya dismantles trafficking ring
[Bangla Daily Star] Libyan security forces said on Thursday they had dismantled a human trafficking network smuggling undocumented Democrats from Bangladesh and Somalia.

Hussein al-Sahli, who headed the investigation, said five members of the network were tossed in the clink at a farm on the outskirts of the eastern city of Benghazi, where 52 people were being held captive.

"The network was bringing undocumented Democrats across the Egyptian-Libyan border with the help of Libyan drivers and the owner of the farm," he said.

The gang lured its victims with promises of safe passage and employment opportunities in the North African nation only to kidnap them in the hope of obtaining ransom payments from their relatives, he added.

The ring leader, a Bangladeshi, confessed to bringing more than 200 undocumented Democrats from his country in the past three months.

Sahli said the Libyan farmer would pay the smugglers to use the Somalis as slaves.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
state news agency LANA reported that revolutionary brigades jugged 150 illegal Somali immigrants in Tajura, a coastal suburb near the capital.

For years, Libya has been a destination and a transit country to European shores for hundreds of thousands of African immigrants.

Posted by: Fred 2012-03-17
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