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Libya Rebels Round Up Black Africans -- News from Antiwar.com

Libya Rebels Round Up Black Africans -- News from Antiwar.comRebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, imprisoning them in makeshift jails across the capital and accusing them of being mercenaries for Moammar Gadhafi.

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