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DJIBOUTI, DJIBOUTI- MARCH 2008.Lying in a row under sheets, childhood friends Ahmed Moalin, Mohamed Mousa and Sharmake Abdulahi thumb through their fake passports. Purchased for $50 each on the streets of Mogadishu, con men have simply filled in the stolen documents with the boy's details making their entries into Somaliland and Djibouti an easy affair. Coming from a country where few people have ever set eyes on official paperwork, the forged passports have become objects of fascination within the gang of tahrib. They won't need them to travel to Yemen on smuggler's boats but are hanging onto them just in case things go wrong; there has been plenty of chatter about overland routes to Europe and they think they could prove useful in the long run. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)