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This is the second part of Lampedusa, Italy. The island of Lampedusa, the southernmost appendix of Italy in the Mediterranean, has the bad luck of being geographically too close for comfort to the Muslim world. Its history is testament to this. In 813 AD, despite a 10-year truce signed in 805 by the Emir Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab with Byzantine Sicily's governor Constantine, the Arabs, who had not kept another previous truce established in 728 and many others since, proceeded to break this one too and, after attacking Sardinia and Corsica, sacked and devastated minor Italian islands including Lampedusa. The...

During the "Arab Spring", the tiny island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily, due to its unfortunate vicinity to North Africa saw the arrival of over 60,000 migrants mostly from Tunisia and Libya in a period of a few months in the early 2011. We know that the use of words like "invasion" or "flooding" is considered racist by the liberal media, but how else is it possible to describe this situation? Lampedusa has a total population of just over 6,000 people only when you also include the inhabitants of the nearby island of Linosa, with which it forms...

Lampedusa: Again - Immigrants Set Fire to Refugee Center and Flee Lampedusa : Muslim Immigrants Riot Apparently they also burned down the "Maison de la Fraternite" (where they were given shelter) because they were getting tired of eating the same macaroni. Selon lui, les conditions de vie sont insupportables : « On nous donne toujours des macaronis, on en a assez. » Tirant de sa poche un billet de dix euros, il a expliqué : « On me l’a donné ici et je veux le dépenser pour acheter quelque chose de bon. » Translation: according to him, the conditions are...

36 of the "youths" were taken out of the cold and into the church by the owners where they proceeded to burn it down. Last week Berlusconi made a whistlestop tour of Lampedusa, where 6,000 Clandestine or illegal immigrants, have arrived in rickety boats from North Africa — 70 miles away across the Mediterranean — in less than seven weeks. The island actually sits closer to the African coast than it does to Sicily, which makes it an obvious target. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsyHJkOezQ4 More pictures: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/03/article-1373002-0B55C11100000578-514_634x392.jpg Found here: http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=32223#comments Can someone explain to me how these young men are “refugees”? There isn’t...

Embattled Italian PM also offers tax breaks to island's residents as critics accuse him of using diversionary tactics... Silvio Berlusconi has put on a vintage display of showmanship, claiming he would empty the island of immigrants within 60 hours, nominate locals for a Nobel peace prize and buy a holiday home there... During a lightning visit to Lampedusa, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland, Berlusconi told cheering locals that six chartered ferries were arriving to pick up the remaining 6,000 migrants, mainly young Tunisian men, who have made the sea crossing since the collapse of the Tunisian...

Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi has offered to mediate between President Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to avoid what he thinks would be an irrational war. Gadhafi offered his services while speaking to reporters attending a summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa, reports Britain's Sky News. Libyan President Col. Moammar Gadhafi (Courtesy: Sky News) "I wish I could have the opportunity to talk to these two persons, to address them, President Bush and Saddam Hussein," Gadhafi said. "I would like to save international peace." The Libyan leader also has been working behind the scenes to persuade Hussein...