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| Nato commander: Isis '€˜spreading like cancer' among refugees |
| 2016-03-02 |
| [Guardian] Philip Breedlove says refugees are ‘masking the movement’ of terrorists, but human rights groups disagree: ‘We are talking about needles in haystacks. Refugees from the Middle East and north Africa are "masking the movement" of terrorists and criminals, Nato’s top commander told Congress on Tuesday, despite the protests of human rights groups who say that refugees overwhelmingly have no ulterior motive but escape. In testimony to the Senate armed services committee, US general Philip Breedlove said that the Islamic State terror group is "spreading like a cancer" among refugees. The group’s members are "taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own", he added. Breedlove also blamed Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria, in support of autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, for having "wildly exacerbated the problem". The airstrikes, nominally against Isis but largely against the various rebel groups arrayed against Assad, have allegedly killed more than 1,000 civilians, including children. Breedlove said these indiscriminate attacks mean to terrorize Syrians and "get them on the road" toward neighboring countries and Europe. The Kremlin and Assad intend, according to Breedlove, to use migration as a weapon to weaken European unity and infrastructure. The general said that European nationalist groups that oppose immigration also weaken the continent, and could themselves threaten violence. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 tens of thousands of poison tipped needles in a haystack |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-03-02 10:57 |
| #5 Russia and Assad, Breedlove said, are using mass migration as a weapon to overwhelm European support structures and break European resolve. Solid strategy of exploiting the weak-mindedness of our NATO allies. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-03-02 10:40 |
| #4 The chickens came home to roost, huh? Also considering that most of them were men of fighting age.... what the fuck did you think you were letting into your country? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-03-02 10:01 |
| #3 so why let "an infested haystack" in your countries? Idiots |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-03-02 07:52 |
| #2 A religion that says the non-believer is just a kaffir and owes you 'free stuff' and servitude is rationalization enough to feed the spreading cancer. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-02 07:42 |
| #1 Refugees and migration as an asymmetrical weapon? Unless you read it on the Burg months ago, who could have known ? Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries excluded or very strongly discouraged from accepting refugees of course. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-02 06:29 |