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Dhibet, Tunisia (CNN)<\/b> — The border crossing at Dhibet in southern Tunisia is not much to look at. A small police post, another for the Garde Nationale, a customs shed — and beyond that 200 meters of no-man’s land. In between here and the Libyan border, a dog — presumably of dual nationality — lies in the sunshine.<\/p>\n
Behind the red-and-white-checkered barrier on the Libyan side, a handful of soldiers pace up and down. Another peers down from a roof. A truck with a large green Libyan flag draws up. A smiling Colonel Moammar Gadhafi looks down from a mural and a large banner bears the legend “Congratulations to the brother leader.”<\/p>\n
Several days ago, Libyan soldiers abandoned this remote frontier post as anti-government groups took over the town of Nalut, 70 kilometers from the border along a twisting mountain road. But on Monday Libyan troops loyal to Gadhafi returned to reclaim control of the frontier.<\/p>\n
A Tunisian man at the border — one of several attracted from the nearby town to witness this rare burst of activity — excitedly shows a CNN crew cellphone video of a Libyan military helicopter that had landed with reinforcements. Another murmurs that if we want to enter Libya, he knows smuggling trails through the mountains — forbidding ochre-colored cliffs that rise on either side of the border.<\/p>\n
Unlike the crossing 150 miles to the north, the border at Dhibet has no crush of foreign workers desperate to escape the violence in Libya. There is a trickle of Egyptians, a few from Mali coming over, but the loudest noise is the chirping of sparrows in the customs shed.<\/p>\n
One young Egyptian who worked in a Libyan aluminum plant, talks of an odyssey from Tripoli, where he worked. Threatened by Libyan soldiers, he says he and a few friends fled south and tried to enter Algeria. When that didn’t work, he ended up here. He and others say Nalut remains in the control of anti-government groups, but there is anxiety that pro-Gadhafi forces nearby will launch an assault. Like much of Libya, the fate of this area is far from decided.<\/p>\n
In the late afternoon, there is a shift change among the handful of Tunisian soldiers deployed at the border. The new arrivals lounge against the border gate, chatting and smoking — oblivious to the drama playing out a few miles away. A Berber shepherd swaddled in rough brown cloth minds his flock of goats just beyond the razor wire.<\/p>\n
There is sudden movement on the Libyan side. The gate goes up and several 4×4 vehicles, caked in dust, pass through. They are, bizarrely enough, part of a rally – – “Libye 2011.”<\/p>\n
The sun slips behind the mountains, the sparrows fall quiet — and the border at Dhibet waits for its next arrivals.<\/p>\n
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