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Tunisia says army to curb fuel smuggling to Libya - Reuters Africabit.ly/q9aAgv
Tunisia says army to curb fuel smuggling to Libya
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TUNIS Aug 11 (Reuters) - Tunisia said on Thursday its troops were patrolling fuel stations to curb the flow of smuggled gasoline into neighbouring Libya, a trade which is helping Muammar Gaddafi hold on to power.
International sanctions and the effects of Libya's civil war have disrupted normal supplies of fuel to parts of the country under Gaddafi's control, but huge volumes of gasoline are instead being smuggled across the Libyan-Tunisian border.
"The armed forces are now conducting checks at fuel stations in the south of Tunisia, (in places) such as Tataouine and Ben Gardane and Remada, so that neither Tunisians nor Libyans can fill up with large quantities," defence ministry official Mokhtar Ben Nasr told a news conference.
"These checks are aimed at preventing the smuggling of diesel and
