article_snippet: Smugglers' tracks criss-cross the endless scrub and steep, arid hills that run along the Libyan border.
article_snippet: Gasoline, drugs and other contraband have long been smuggled across the frontier.
article_snippet: When we arrived, passports were requested and phone calls made.
article_snippet: Thousands of foreign workers were then trying to escape the violence through the few official border crossings.
article_snippet: the border, after all, is 380 miles long.