Italy is rocky shore for Europe's boat people

dipsydoodle

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Tue Jul-12-11 06:47 AM
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Italy is rocky shore for Europe's boat people

LAMPEDUSA, Italy: The half moon hung low in the Mediterranean sky. It was a calm, clear night for the crossing from Tripoli to Lampedusa.

The boat was more like a barge, without cover, not even for the wheelhouse or engine room.

The Africans were quiet, patient, packed in, absorbed in their escape, their knees drawn up in the confined space as they had been for 30 hours at sea.

On board were 299 men and 14 women. Although they did not know it they were on the fifth boat to arrive in Lampedusa in 24 hours - part of a continuing exodus from war-ravaged Libya.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14103752

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WatsonT

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Tue Jul-12-11 08:33 AM
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1. We often get lectures from europeans on how ignorant, provincial, racist etc we Americans are

let's see how they welcome this group.

Likely they will be either forced out or shoved in to ghettos and ignored.

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