African mercenaries in Libya nervously await their fate (recruited by "political organizer")

Crowded into an empty classroom which was stinking of unwashed bodies and reeking of fear, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's defeated mercenary killers awaited their fate. A week earlier the men – Libyan loyalists of the dictator and black African recruits – had been landed at airports throughout eastern Libya and sent out into the streets to shoot protesters in a murderous rampage... The survivors were exhausted, filthy, far from home, and fearful of execution, even though they had been assured of good treatment....Most looked dazed. Some were virtually children. "A man at the bus station in Sabha offered me a job...