ISIS terrorists are arriving in Europe in the guise of refugees

Fears have been expressed in certain quarters that ISIS is 'spreading like cancer' and terrorists in the guise of refugees are arriving in Europe. This has been revealed by a US General who is the Commander of NATO's European unit. In his opinion, the arrival of thousands of migrants in to the continent is 'masking the movement' of violent extremists, criminals and foreign fighters.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 1 March 2016.

The US Air Force General has informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that these dangerous elements heightened the potential for a terror attack. Within this mix of people from different background, ISIS is 'taking advantage of paths of least resistance and is a threat to European nations as well as the United States.
The General has asked for more U.S. forces to be permanently based in Europe because it is facing threats from a more aggressive Russia as well as the ISIS. His requirement is for Army troops that could be ready to respond quickly to any crisis or military need. The Pentagon has decreased the number of US forces in Europe over the last several years, and has, instead, shifted focus to the Asia Pacific while fighting continues in the Middle East. However, in view of the increasing threats from Russia and ISIS questions are being raised about those decisions.
It is estimated that about 6,000 foreign fighters have left to join the fight in Syria and Iraq, and out of that, some 1,500 of them have returned to Europe. As per information of the International Organization for Migration, almost 130,000 migrants - or, more than 2,000 each day - have reached Europe by sea since the beginning of this year and 418 have died in the attempts, most drowning in the cold, rough waters. This means that the number of arrivals in the first two months of 2016 is more than 11 times as many as the same period last year.


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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece has remarked that Greece is turning 'into a warehouse of souls' as more countries close their borders to migrants. He spoke out ahead of EU talks aimed at reducing the flow of refugees through the Balkans and as Germany was warned to expect 2.5million more migrants in the next four years.
This is reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 February 2016.

Greece, at present, is the arrival point for nearly four fifths of the huge flow of people fleeing war and poverty who are arriving in Europe. Most of them take the route via Turkey and this influx is turning out to be the worst crisis of its kind to face Europe for more than half a century.
Already one hundred thousand migrants have arrived this year and more than a million last year - these figures are as per the International Organization for Migration (IOM). And, with another 3.6 million refugees on the way, the record €19.4 billion budget surplus that the government took in last year in taxes will soon be eroded.
Therefore, ahead of the meeting, Tsipras has threatened not to cooperate with future EU agreements on the migrant crisis if the burden was not fairly shared among member states. Athens is seething over a series of border restrictions along the migrant trail to northern and western Europe. This has resulted in a bottleneck in Greece, the main entry point to Europe.
Hence, Tsipras has made it clear to the Greek parliament that Greece will no longer agree to any deal if the burdens and responsibilities are not shared proportionally. He has added that Greece cannot be turned into a warehouse of souls.


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More than one million refugees have entered Europe during 2015

A staggering one million refugees mostly from Syria and Middle East countries have entered Europe during 2015 as indicated by the International Organization for Migration. This figure passed a symbolic milestone amid the fallout of war, poverty and persecution in Africa and the Middle East.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 22 December 2015.

The Geneva-based 162-country intergovernmental organization has said that the million mark has already crossed and it marks more than a four-fold increase from last year.
As per figures made available, IOM has indicated that ore than 820,000 crossed into Greece from Turkey, including more than 455,000 from Syria and over 186,000 from Afghanistan. Nearly 3,700 others died trying to cross the Mediterranean.
The response of Germany and Sweden have been most welcoming and accommodating, while some less-wealthy eastern European countries have erected border fences in order to stem the flow of refugees. Germany has seen around 1 million migrants arrive this year - that figure includes refugees who have arrived from Balkan countries earlier in 2015.

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Human traffickers murder at least 500 migrants in Malta

It has been reported that human traffickers have murdered at least 500 migrants by ramming their boat into a boat that was overloaded with migrants from Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Sudan migrants nzherald.co.nz – they had set out from Damietta in Egypt on September 6, and were forced to change boats several times by the traffickers in the curse of their journey towards Europe.
The incidents has been described by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as "the worst shipwreck in years". The horrific details of the shipwreck that took place near Malta, have been narrated to IOM by a couple of survivors.
These gory details would indicate that it was certainly not the worst shipwreck in years, not an accident by any stretch of imagination but a mass murder carried out by criminals without scruples or any respect for human life.
Two surviving Palestinians plucked from the water by a freighter have told the IOM that about 500 passengers had been on one vessel that was wrecked on purpose by people smugglers.
According to the two, the traffickers were on a separate boat and ordered the migrants to board a smaller vessel, which many of the migrants feared was too small to hold them. When they refused to comply, the furious traffickers rammed their boat until it capsized.
As per the Maltese armed forces, seven people, all unconscious and suffering from hypothermia, had been rescued and flown to a hospital on Crete.
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