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Terrorists Entered Europe as Refugees
Should
we close the barn door NOW?
By de Andréa, Opinion Editorialist
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
for ‘THE BOTTOM LINE’:
Published November 17, 2015
This
should’ change the political debate about accepting Muslim so-called refugees.
But it probably won’t.
According
to Reuters, at least one, possibly two, of the gunmen who died in Friday
night's attacks in Paris was the holder of a Syrian passport and was registered
as a refugee in several European countries last month, authorities said.
The man, identified by Serbian authorities only by his initials
A.A., came into Europe through the Greek island of Leros, where he was
processed on Oct. 3, Greek officials said on Saturday. He was among 70 refugees
who arrived on a small vessel from Turkey.
Serbian authorities said on Sunday the same man had been
registered at a border crossing from Macedonia into Serbia a few days later.
"One of the suspected terrorists, A.A., who is of interest to
the French security agencies, was registered on the Presevo border crossing on
October 7 this year, where he formally sought asylum," the
Serbian interior ministry said in a statement.
"Checks have confirmed that his details match those of the
person who on October 3 was identified in Greece. There was no Interpol warrant
issued against this person."
A spokeswoman for the Croatian interior ministry said the man was
registered in the country's Opatovac refugee camp on Oct. 8 and from there he
crossed into Hungary and then Austria.
Greek government sources said a second suspect attacker was also
likely to have passed through Greece.
Following the Paris bloodshed, populist leaders around Europe have
rushed to demand a halt to an influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle
East and Africa. Poland said it could not accept migrants under EU quotas
without security guarantees.
"The answer to the Paris attacks and the possibility that one
of the attackers came by rubber dinghy to Greece... is not to shut the door on
those desperately fleeing war," he said, calling for
Europe to put in place a coherent asylum policy that would both help those on
need and address security concerns raised by uncontrolled flows.
"People fleeing war need refuge. And trying to build fences
and stopping them at sea only drives them deeper into the hands of criminal
gangs, and drives them underground where there is no control over who comes and
goes."
Prosecutors said the slaughter - claimed by Islamic State as revenge for French military action in Syria and Iraq - appeared to involve a multinational team with links to the Middle East, Belgium and possibly Germany as well as home-grown French roots.
Prosecutors said the slaughter - claimed by Islamic State as revenge for French military action in Syria and Iraq - appeared to involve a multinational team with links to the Middle East, Belgium and possibly Germany as well as home-grown French roots.
Greek officials said one
and perhaps two of the assailants had passed through Greece in October from
Turkey along with Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their homeland.
"We are at war. We have been hit by an act of war, organized
methodically by a terrorist, jihadist army," Prime
Minister Manuel Valls told TF1 television on Saturday night.
"Because we are at war we will take exceptional measures. We
will act and we will hit them. We will hit this enemy to destroy them,
obviously in France and Europe ... but also in Syria and Iraq," he said.
"We
will win."
It was the deadliest attack in France since World War Two and the worst
such assault in Europe since the Madrid train bombings of 2004, in which
Islamists killed 191 people.
Quoting an unnamed senior
official, Israeli television said Israel's spy services saw a "clear operational link"
between the Paris mayhem, suicide bombings in Beirut on Thursday, which killed
43, as well as the Oct. 31 downing of a Russian airliner in the Egyptian Sinai,
where 224 people died.
France had been on high alert since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical
weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January, killing 18 people.
Those attacks briefly united France in defense of freedom of
speech, with a mass demonstration of more than a million people. But that unity
has since broken down, with far-right populist Marine Le Pen gaining on both
mainstream parties by blaming France's security problems on immigration and Islam.
If confirmed, the infiltration of militants into the flow of
refugees to carry out attacks in Europe could have far-reaching political
consequences.
The attacks fueled a debate raging in Europe about how to handle
the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants propelled by
civil war in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Well…again I hate to have to say it.
But I told you so. The thing is…in the
face of many state governors and some cities and counties who are now closing
their doors to middle eastern so-called refugees, Obama is encouraging Muslim
terrorists/refugees to come to the U.S. How many of those unvetted so-called
refugees are trained terrorists? Or are
these just warm fuzzy peaceful Jihadi Terrorists.
Of course they are…
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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