COLD by night and blisteringly hot under the middav sun. the border crossing between Libya and Egypt at Salloum has become a bleak stopping point for Western journalists seeking a way to eastern Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi, six hours' drive to the west. But for refugees going the other way, Salloum is another even gloomier barrier on a long and often deadly flight from war. These migrants, almost all of them black Africans who found refuge from such places as Chad, Eritrea and Sudan's ravaged Darfur region in Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's Libya, say they are targets of rebels in the east, where they have all too often been mistaken for mercenaries in the pay of the colonel.
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