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Africans in Libya say Tricked into Fighting for Gaddafi

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African migrants, captured and jailed by the rebels they were fighting in Libya's Western Mountains, say they were tricked or coerced into the army of Muammar Gaddafi in the belief they faced an al Qaeda invasion.

In rare first-hand accounts from a group branded "mercenaries" by the rebels, five men from Sudan's western Darfur region and Chad told Reuters how they were working in Libya as builders and decorators when they became embroiled in the conflict unleashed by an uprising to end Gaddafi's four-decade rule.
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