Friday,
December 01, 2006
Arab North Africans Immigrate "Moderno"-
The
ANNOTICO Report
I
don't know if I'm laughing harder at the attempt by a Moroccan and Tunisian to
IMMIGRATE to Italy by crossing the Strait of Sicily on JET SKIS, (it gives
new meaning to "huddled masses"), they wore "WET SUITS"
(clever), or the fact that they ran out of FUEL (what a basic miscalculation),
or that they used a CELL PHONE to call Rescuers (clever) ,
BUT they called Italians rather than Tunisians.
Actually
their ambitions were somewhat lessor, since they were
only trying to reach Pantelleria, (or Pantalaria), the ancient Cossyra,
an Italian island in the Strait of Sicily, 100 km (62 mi) southwest
of the south-western extremity of Sicily, (a commune belonging to the Sicilian
province of Trapani) and 70 km (43 mi) east of the Tunisia. Therefore, they
accomplished 31miles of their 42 mile journey.
And
perhaps we should not be overly harsh on their miscalculation of fuel, since
the currents in the
Notice,
that both Pantelleria
and the Pelagie Islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione) between
The
A strait
is a narrow channel of water that connects two
larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. Straits can lie
on important shipping routes and wars have been
fought for control of these straits.
Other well-known
straits include
Immigrants
Saved After Trying to Reach
Independent
Online
November 30 2006
The two men, a Tunisian and a Moroccan, had left the Tunisian port of Kelibia on Wednesday night bound for the southern Italian
island of Pantelleria, about 70km away.
The men were about 20km off the coast of
A coast guard speedboat was dispatched from the
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