Hundreds of thousands of refugees flood into Europe. Isis terrorists believed to be among them. Many blame U.S. manufactured revolutions in the Middle East.
'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?
Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:35 UTC
The iconic image of 3-year-old refugee Aylan Kurdi's lifeless body on a beach on the Turkish coast went 'viral' recently and brought the two-year-long European 'refugee crisis' to widespread public attention. EU nations are now facing an influx of potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants feeling their NATO-war-torn countries in search of safety and stability. Whether or not they'll find it is still an open question.
This 'refugee' problem is, of course, not new, and Aylan was not the first tragic death directly related to the problem. Consider the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria alone that have resulted from the U.S. government-manipulated 'revolution' in that country 4 years ago. Or think of the unprovoked attacks on and invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan or the NATO bombardment of Libya and subsequent installation of a fundamentalist 'Jihadi' regime there. Then consider that 2,600 people, or more, have already died attempting to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. The 'refugee crisis' has been brew for over two years, but it took Aylan's body to make many people sit up and taking notice.
The
plight of the refugees could become the perfect excuse to precipitate a
new R2P (responsibility to protect) war; Libya remixed, with fighting
ISIL barely disguising the real agenda: regime change in Damascus.
So
Europe has suddenly, miraculously "discovered" that the civil war/proxy
war raging in Syria since early 2011 has hemorrhaged into an extremely
serious refugee crisis.
European Sturm und Drang on what
to do about the refugee drama is unprecedented in modern times.
Bitterness permeates the fault lines separating fear and intolerance
from generosity and solidarity.
Among quite a few progressive
circles, there are widespread fears that the current Western media
campaign centered on the plight of refugees may be a catalyst to prepare
European-wide public opinion for an all-out war in Syria before the end
of 2015.
The United Nations is now estimating at least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean this year and next, seeking refuge in Europe to escape violence and unrest in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, sub-Saharan Africa and other regions. Already 366,000 people have arrived in Europe this year. Earlier today, the president of the European Commission called on European Union member states to accept a total of 160,000 asylum seekers from war-torn countries. We speak to Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for the Left Party. She just returned last week from a trip to Hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. "What is the root for this massive migration?" Groth asks. "It is war, it is terror, and it is the former U.S. government who is accountable for it."
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