Terrorist used fake Syrian passport to sneak into Europe
“But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents”.
That passport, with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, was found beside the body of a man who blew himself up outside the stadium where a soccer match was taking place between France and Germany.
“Do you imagine that we send our army to fight for Syria, and hundreds of thousands of Syrians sip coffee on the Unter den Linden [boulevard in Berlin] or the Old Town [in Warsaw], while we fight for their freedom?”, Waszczykowski was quoted as saying during an interview on the national broadcaster TVP.
The key words in the G20 position are that, “We call upon all states to contribute to responding to this crisis, and share in the burdens associated with it, including through refugee resettlement, other forms of humanitarian admission, humanitarian aid and efforts to ensure that refugees can access services, education and livelihood opportunities”.
That can be hard to determine at a nation’s border even in the best of circumstances.
And what about donors who have given to Syrian refugees before? .
“We don’t think that everyone who comes from there is a terrorist, but we don’t know”, Orban said.
People felt very helpless. “But the politicians put this problem under the carpet”. “They’ve have been an asset to this country, a nation of immigrants”. We’re helping vulnerable people. “You may even see them increase”. On balance, the locals say, the risks are justified in light of the moral imperative of helping people fleeing war, hardship or persecution in their homelands.
Germany’s interior minister said Monday that authorities are keeping a closer watch on both Islamic and far-right extremists in the wake of Friday’s Paris attacks. “Nothing changed for us”, he tells TIME by phone from Leros on Monday.
In Serbia, a few 490,000 migrants have passed through this year, and many say they don’t have documents – making it impossible to check for terrorist connections or criminal histories, to verify their backgrounds, Serbian officials said Sunday.
Refugees are subjected to the strictest security vetting of any travelers entering the United States of America and those from Syria are subjected to an additional level of scrutiny above that, Toner said. “They are like anybody else”.
Many of our members are not newcomers to the Syrian refugee crisis. They are hunted people who didn’t want to leave their homes, who lost families and friends in that war. “We can not start treating the refugees as criminals because of the jihadists”.
He said he raised the issue in a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee last month and the answers he got were “deeply troubling”. This process usually took about a day, and it seemed to involve little more than a name and other basic information jotted down in a notebook, especially when the migrants arrived with no identifying documents, claiming to be Syrian.
An official says Cypriot authorities won’t consider the asylum applications of six individuals from among 114 migrants whose boats landed on the shores of a British air base on Cyprus last month because of unspecified security reasons. “Who’s to say if a passport is fake or real?” asks the source. His remark was as inaccurate as his previous dismissal of ISIS as the “jayvee” of terrorist groups. But will they do anything that really makes a difference? They have been fingerprinted and photographed and checked at various borders.
“But we are faced with a question: which approach is more humane?”
“We’re looking at all of our options about how do we make sure that something like this doesn’t happen coming here to us with refugees”, Ryan said.
We’re asking Americans for the continuation of the empathy that people felt in September.