What To Know About The Syrian Passport Found In The Paris Attacks

On 7 October, a man using the passport had arrived on the small Greek island of Leros and registered as a refugee, before traveling on through Serbia and Croatia before entering France. But counter-terrorism expert Dr. Matthew Levitt said there’s only about two thousand Syrian refugees now in the USA and the vetting process is thorough; it can take anywhre between 12 to 18 months.

A passport found near the body of one of the Stade de France suicide bombers may have belonged to a Syrian regime soldier killed several months ago, a source close to the investigation told AFP.

More importantly, however, it is our understanding that the state does not have the authority to prevent the federal government from funding the relocation of these Syrian refugees to Florida even without state support.

German media also reported that the government wants to tighten security at refugee shelters.

“Terrorists are deliberately and systematically exploiting mass migration in order to blend in among masses of people who are leaving their homes in the hope of a better life”, Orban said. For another thing, the larger Europe’s Muslim population gets, the more tension there’ll be long-term between the non-Muslim majority and Muslim minority even without provocations by ISIS. “The group hopes frequent, devastating attacks in its name will provoke overreactions by European governments against innocent Muslims, thereby alienating and radicalizing Muslim communities throughout the continent”, Harleen Gambhir, a counterterrorism analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, wrote in the Washington Post.

Why would a suicide bomber carry with him his original passport? He didn’t. He really was a new arrival.

Instead, he was registered at the border, crossing from Macedonia into Serbia, a few days later. Nothing was found. Police on Leros didn’t spot that the passport was fake.

Despite the vague provenance and questionable authenticity of the passport, as well as the unknown identity of the attacker, some conservative groups have seized on the discovery to launch a backlash against Syrian refugees and restrict their entrance. Numerous asylum seekers flooding Greece are arriving without passports.

The shocking assertions have sparked fears that ISIS extremists planning deadly attacks across Europe could be roaming free anywhere in the EU’s passport-free Schengen area.

“You can not stop someone who has made a decision to die”, he said, showing Almohammad’s passport photo and fingerprints. “Who do you call and do a background check on them?”

“In a sense”, sneers the Daily Beast, “Republican governors of 14 states took ISIS at their word” by declaring that their states’ borders are now closed to Syrian refugees because of one jihadi’s fake passport. “We are helping them, but who knows what some of them are dreaming of doing to us?” But that point is neither here nor there.

It raises already serious concerns that the passport used to identify one of the attackers as a “refugee terrorist” was faked.

“We must not make the mistake of equating refugees with terrorists”, Ursula Von der Leyen, German defence minister, told the Monday edition of the German newspaper “Passauer Neue Presse”, according to Deutsche Welle, the German external broadcaster. Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security.