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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Sante Mosetti, member of the Cultural Association Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, closes the gate of the cemetery where the fascist marsahll was buried, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A wreath was left on the tomb of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani for the opening ceremony of the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Men gather in the central square of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: (L/R) Aldo Graziani (78), Giandomenico Abbafatt (43) and ex-mayor of Affile Diego Moriconi, 61, discuss about the collaboration with Nazis in World War II, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the mausoleum and park dedicated to fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani with engraved the words "Fatherland" and "Honor" in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: The bust of fascist Marsahll Rodolfo Graziani is in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Newspapers of 1951 featuring fascist Marsahll Rodolfo Graziani are exposed in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by a board and a bust of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Fliers of faschist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani are scotched on the wall of Bar San Sebastiano in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A man walk in the center of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: View of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: (L/R) Aldo Graziani (78), Giandomenico Abbafatt (43) and ex-mayor of Affile Diego Moriconi, 61, discuss about the collaboration with Nazis in World War II, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the mausoleum and park dedicated to fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani with engraved the words "Fatherland" and "Honor" in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the bust of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mariano Palombi, 98, the oldest man of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mariano Palombi, 98, the oldest man of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Luciano Battiglieri, 52, is the owner of Bar San Sebastiano where fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani is remembered in exposed books and postcards in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Luciano Battiglieri, 52, owner of Bar San Sebastiano, flips through the pages of a book on fascist Marsall Rodolfo Graziani in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A bottle of red wine with a portrait of Benitor Mussolini is on the sheld of Bar San Sebastiano in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: View of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0649.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0528.jpg
  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People evacuated from Libya are transferred to the hotels upon their arrival in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People arrive at the Customs after stepping down from the ferry that evacuated them from Libya. In the background (left, smiling) is Douglas W. Kmiec, U.S. ambassador in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Ireland Counselate staff show Irish flags in order to be recognized by their citizens as they step down from the ferry that evacuated them from Libya. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Libyans living in Malta protest in front of the Libyan embassy. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Maltese policement in front of the Libyan embassy where Libyan citizens living in Malta protested. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Reporter Rukmini Callimachi, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) and reporter Lorenzo Tondo are here in the conference room of the Guardia di FInanza (Financial Police) headquarters as they go over details of the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0591.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0616.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0535.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0494.jpg
  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People evacuated from Libya are transferred to the hotels upon their arrival in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People evacuated from Libya are transferred to the hotels upon their arrival in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People evacuated from Libya are transferred to the hotels upon their arrival in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A girl nexter to her dad waits at the Maltese Customs after stepping down from the ferry that evacuated them from Libya. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A man evacuated from Libya is here interviewed by a TV crew. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A woman who was evacuated from Libya enters the Maltese Customs as she steps down from the ferry.  A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Caroline Meraz Garcia from Santa Cruz, California, arrives at the Customs in the harbor of Valletta, Malta, after stepping down from the ferry that evacuated her from Libya. In Libya, she was an English teacher at the American School. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. The first evacuated people get assistance upon their arrival in the harbor of Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry arrives in the harbor of Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Libyans living in Malta protest in front of the Libyan embassy. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. Sam Dewhirst, an English teacher that has been working in the city of Sebha, Libya, arrives at the Malta International Airport showing an official invitation of the British Embassy in Libya that was given to him at the Tripoli airport as a boarding pass to flee Libya.<br />
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A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. Sam Dewhirst, an English teacher that has been working in the city of Sebha, Libya, arrives at the Malta International Airport showing an official invitation of the British Embassy in Libya that was given to him at the Tripoli airport as a boarding pass to flee Libya.<br />
<br />
A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. The arrival board at the Malta International Airport shows two flights arriving from Tripoli, Libya, that will evacuate foreign citizens living in the country.<br />
A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators. ©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. The island of Malta as seen from an airplane. A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Reporter Rukmini Callimachi, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) and reporter Lorenzo Tondo are here in the conference room of the Guardia di FInanza (Financial Police) headquarters as they go over details of the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0658.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0622.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0522.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0486.jpg
  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. People evacuated from Libya are transferred to the hotels upon their arrival in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A young man next to his mother and sister as they wait at the Maltese Customs after stepping down from the ferry that evacuated them from Libya. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A tired child between his father (right) and an interviewer (left) at the Maltese Customs after stepping down from the ferry that evacuated them from Libya.  A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Andy Law, a British citizen from Manchester, England, is here interviewed by a TV crew. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A US Embassy staff at the Maltese Customs shows a woman arriving from Libya where her husband is waiting for her. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A mother kisses her child as she steps down from the ferry that evacuated her from Libya. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. The first evacuated people get assistance upon their arrival in the harbor of Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. The first evacuated people get assistance upon their arrival in the harbor of Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry arrives in the harbor of Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A typica Maltese bus in Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A typica Maltese bus in Valletta, Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. Libyans living in Malta protest in front of the Libyan embassy. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011. Valletta, Malta. A cardboard with the faces of North African dictators Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gheddafi is here on the sidewalk in front of the Libyan embassy in Malta. A U.S.-chartered ferry evacuated Americans and other foreigners out of Libya on Friday and brought them to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Maria Dolores ferry, after three days of delays, brought over 300 passengers, including at 167 U.S. citizens, away from Libya where Colonel Gaddafi's forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
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©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. Sam Dewhirst, an English teacher that has been working in the city of Sebha, Libya, arrives at the Malta International Airport showing an official invitation of the British Embassy in Libya that was given to him at the Tripoli airport as a boarding pass to flee Libya.<br />
<br />
A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators.<br />
©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 25 February 2011, Malta International Airport. The arrival board at the Malta International Airport shows two flights arriving from Tripoli, Libya, that will evacuate foreign citizens living in the country.<br />
A ferry sent by the U.S. that will bring American citizens out of Libya is finally on its way to Malta, leaving just after 6:30 a.m. EST Friday morning.  According to the State Department there are 285 passengers on board the Dolores, including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. For two days, rough weather in the Mediterranean Sea, with waves up to 16 feet high, had made it impossible for the ferry to leave. Thousands of foreigners have fled Colonel Gaddafi's regime as his forces continue to clash with anti-government demonstrators. ©2011 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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