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Terror Networks
Syria to Libya to the EU: how people-smugglers operate
2023-08-20
Long. This one needs a comfy chair and cup of coffee, dear Reader. Or perhaps a fluid a bit less innocent — we don’t judge. ;-)
[AlAhram] For desperate Syrians, a WhatsApp message saying "I want to go to Europe" can be all they need to start a treacherous journey to Libya and then across the Mediterranean. Twelve years after conflict broke out in the country, Syrians are still trying to escape a war that has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and pulled in foreign powers and global jihadists. At least 141 Syrians were among up to 750 migrants colonists thought to have been on a trawler that set off from Libya and sank off Greece in June, relatives and activists told AFP. Most of the passengers are feared drowned.

AFP interviewed Syrian smugglers and migrants colonists about the journey to migrant hub Libya, and then across the central Mediterranean -- the world's deadliest migrant route.

Almost everyone requested anonymity, fearing reprisals.
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