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Living underground: this is the real clash of civilizations - a brutal war for the bottom rung of Europe's ladder.(immigrant workers)(Cover story)

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Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Karla Adam in London, Eric Pape in Tenerife, Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Barbie Nadeau in Orta Nova and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan)

The drinking water ran out seven days into the voyage. The cheap Global Positioning System onboard for navigation broke. Finally their fuel ran out, too. All those on the boat would have died but for happenstance. A Spanish naval cutter came across them foundering in high seas, picked them up and took them to safety--in precisely the place, ironically, that they were trying to reach.

Lamin Diba tells this story as though he has faced the worst that life can throw at him. The 17-year-old youth ...

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