Posted on 10/30/2015 5:43:28 PM PDT by Lorianne
Group of volunteers declare war on "Escobar" style gangs running deadly trade ___ As the pair of black SUVs sped towards us across the coastal scrubland of western Libya, it was hard not to feel a twinge of apprehension. After all, in the lawlessness that prevails four years on from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s fall, trunkfuls of men in black balaclavas are often the prelude to a starring role in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) beheading film.
Yet despite their menacing appearance, the only people the Masked Men of Zuwara are trying to scare are the local people smugglers, who have turned the port into north Africa's most notorious hub for migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
In the last three years alone, tens of thousands of people have set sail from Zuwara's shores, which are the nearest point on Libya's 1,000 mile coastline to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The town's name has also been linked to several of the migrant crisis's worst tragedies, including the drowning of 800 people in April that prompted the EU to step up rescue patrols.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Eric Prince, white courtesy telephone, please...
All from the failed policies of Obama.
The reason they have hide their faces is because the heads of western governments are traitors, intent on pouring islamic sewage into their respective countries.
More likely Mrs. Benghazi’ policies!!!
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