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Syrian Refugees Refuse Deal to Return Home from Lebanon
[Breitbart] Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living along the eastern border of Leb have refused a deal that would have allowed them to return home, citing the miserable and dangerous conditions that persist in their country of origin.

"Khaled Raad, a member of the refugees’ Coordination Committee with the Lebanese government, says the vast majority of the refugees in Leb’s Arsal border region will not accept to return to Syria, for fear of war, hardship, and oppressive jihadist rule," reported the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday.

The AP cites United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
estimates of about 51,000 Syrian refugees in Leb. Evidently, many of them will be hanging back while 9,000 al-Qaeda prisoners of war are sent back to Syria in a prisoner swap arranged with Lebanese Hezbollah. The trade was supposed to happen on Monday, but it was delayed due to logistical problems encountered while arranging the necessary transportation--or, according to some reports, by al-Qaeda making new demands at the last minute.

The prisoner deal was intended to allow civilian refugees to return to Syria as well, clearing Syrians out of Leb while Hezbollah works with the Syrian army to drive rebel forces away from the border region. The refugees may have felt nervous about riding home on the same buses as the jihadis who threaten their lives. Also, Syrians opposed to the Assad regime have learned to be wary of relocation arrangements that leave them all sitting in one place, exposed to Arclight airstrikes and artillery.

Another News Agency that Dare Not be Named report quotes a Syrian who explains that Leb is preferable to Syria, even with all of the restrictions placed on refugees by the Lebanese government, saying, "There are people who say Idlib is going to become a second djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, and I would rather stay in Leb and go to prison than move there. Those who are staying are unhappy, and those who are leaving are also unhappy."

In other words, he is saying the Idlib province in Syria will become a terrorist stronghold akin to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s Iraqi capital of Mosul, which had to be bombed to smithereens in order to liberate it. On a more optimistic note, the AP reports that refugees hope their treatment in Leb will improve once the bully boyz and jihadis have been shipped home.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has expressed reservations about the deal between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda, worried that "conditions for refugees to return in safety and dignity are not yet in place."

On Monday, actor George Clooney and his wife Amal, with support from Google and HP Inc., announced a $3.25 million donation to help UNICEF and the Lebanese ministry of education provide schools for Syrian refugee children in Leb.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-03
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