Number of Syrian Refugees Tops 3 Million (Obama's World)

The parents and children of this Syrian family sleep on the streets of Istanbul in Turkey. They are among the 3 million refugees from Syria, many of whom live in desperate conditions. Photo: UNHCR/S. Baldwin

29 August 2014 – Three million Syrians will have registered as refugees outside of their country today, the UN refugee agency reported, amid accounts of increasingly horrifying conditions inside their homeland – cities where populations are surrounded, people are going hungry and civilians are being targeted or indiscriminately killed.

A news release issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that a further 6.5 million people are displaced within Syria, bringing to almost half of all Syrians who have been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. One in every eight Syrians has fled across the border, fully a million people more than a year ago. Over half of those uprooted are children.

“The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them,” said High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres.

And UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie said: “Three million refugees is not just another statistic. It is a searing indictment of our collective failure to end the war in Syria.”

UNHCR Spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a press briefing in Geneva today that increasing numbers of families are arriving in a shocking state, exhausted, scared and with their savings depleted. Most have been on the run for a year or more, fleeing from village to village before taking the final decision to leave their country.

The vast majority remained in countries neighbouring Syria, with the highest concentrations in Lebanon (1.14 million), Jordan (608,000) and Turkey (815,000), according to UNHCR.

In addition to the 3 million registered refugees, governments estimated that hundreds of thousands more Syrians had sought sanctuary in their countries with more than four in five refugees struggling to make a living in towns and cities outside of camps, with 38 per cent living in sub-standard shelter, according to a recent survey.

Syrians are now the world’s largest refugee population under UNHCR care, second only in number to the decades-long Palestinian crisis. The Syria operation is now the largest in the agency’s 64-year history.

Jens Laerke, Spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), stated that more than 191,000 had lost their lives since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011. Even that high number was considered a conservative estimate with the real death toll likely to be much higher, he said.

He said the advance of Islamic State (IS) militants into central Syria had taken violence against civilians to a whole new level as the group continued to commit horrific atrocities against those opposing its rule. There had also been an increase in the use of barrel bombs by Government forces in Aleppo while Islamist militants had cut off the water supply to an area for displaced people, also in Aleppo, on several occasions. That kind of collective punishment was clearly a breach of some of the most basic principles in international humanitarian law.

Overall, nearly 11 million people are in need of aid in Syria and 4.7 million of them live in areas that are hard to reach. There are still some 241,000 under siege in various locations. Mr. Laerke informed that the UN has now sent nine shipments to Syria from neighbouring countries and more are planned over the following month.

UNHCR said there are worrying signs that the journey out of Syria is becoming tougher, with many people forced to pay bribes at armed checkpoints proliferating along the borders. Refugees crossing the desert into eastern Jordan were being forced to pay smugglers hefty sums (ranging from $100 per person or more) to take them to safety.

Ms. Fleming said that UNHCR is also deeply concerned for the well-being of several hundred Syrians trapped inside a refugee camp in Al Qa’im, Iraq, after UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations were forced to abandon their offices and warehouses.

While donors had contributed more than $4.1 billion to successive regional response plans since 2012, more than $2 billion more is needed by the end of 2014 alone to meet the urgent needs of refugees.

“The response to the Syrian crisis has been generous, but the bitter truth is that it falls far short of what’s needed,” said Mr. Guterres.

In 2009 Obama released a brutal al Qaeda terrorist known as al Baghdadi, he went on to head ISIS in 2013, they have overtaken Iraq, that thousands of US military men fought to stabilize.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/147962-startling-report-isis-leader-details-release-u-s-custody-brutal-reign-terror/

While Qatar, US, and Iran seem to “improving relations” bur are covertly working together, the rest of the Middle East realizes what is going on and Qatar is shunned.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26517134

Afghanistan’s narcotics problems grow worse - 2014
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/01/15/14124/afghanistans-narcotics-problems-grow-worse

How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles (CIA) - 2014
http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/

Syrian’s Rebels Desribe US backed Training in Qatar
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-arming-the-rebels/syrian-rebels-describe-u-s-backed-training-in-qatar/

Pipeline Predicament: The Ukraine-Syria-Russia-U.S. gas nexus
http://www.tehrantimes.com/component/content/article/52-guests/114806-pipeline-predicament-the-ukraine-syria-russia-us-gas-nexus

Sources: Syrian jihad coming to Egypt with help from Turkey, Qatar and Obama
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/04/14/sources-syrian-jihad-coming-egypt-help-turkey-qatar-obama/

2014-Egypt charges ex-president Mursi with passing state secrets to Qatar
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-charges-ex-president-mursi-passing-state-secrets-102808148.html

Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

Hezbollah: Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran in the 80’s. Its leaders were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of 1,500 Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda
By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/

Qatar and US collusion
http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/24-01-2013/123571-qatar_usa-0/

Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-

Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9

Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html

Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053

World Leaders Lambast Obama’s ‘Failures’ in the Middle East
July 25, 2014 by Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/world-leaders-lambast-obamas-failures-in-the-middle-east/

Morsi ex wife Threatens to expose Muslim Brotherhood Special Relationship with Obama Administration
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/morsis-wife-threatens-to-publish-letters-from-hillary-clinton-exposing-special-relationship-between-muslim-brotherhood-and-obama-administration

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=343289&CategoryId=10718

They have been imported, that we know for sure.

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=343289&CategoryId=10718

It was known in Venezuela that Iran funded Hugo Chavez’ political campaign funneling $Millions to Chavez with no prior political experience. He was a military man.
The relationship and exchanges of goods and money was not something they hid after Chavez won the election.

2009 The Emerging access of Iran and Venezuela
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203440104574400792835972018

The 2009 “coup d’état in Honduras was carried out with the acquiescence of the U.S. government at the time. In fact, the Millennium Challenge Corp., an independent U.S. foreign-aid agency chaired by the Secretary of State — Hillary Clinton at the time — continued to provide funding to the coup regime in the immediate aftermath of the putsch, even as the U.S. State Department indicated publicly that it had suspended assistance programs in Honduras.”
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/07/us-military-more-counter-narcotics-funding-will-help-stem-exodus-childr

2010 WikiLeaks, Obama meddling in Honduras Politics
Obama supported A known Narco Candidate in Honduras. Released cables make it clear that the U.S. knew Manuel Zelaya was a threat to democracy in Honduras.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256.html&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009

2009 - Mexican Cartels are Recruiting Children. In is inhumane to consider that even criminals could take advantage of children because of their poverty and lack of Education, to groom them as drug mules an even assassins.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110203492.html
“Mexican drug cartels increasingly recruit the young”

Honduras 2012: With Mexican criminal groups like the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel both believed to be active in the country, Honduras has become one of the principal drug transit routes in the region. Some estimate that as much as 87 percent of cocaine moving north to the US passes through Honduras.
June 4, 2014: Honduras is a Narco Nation
http://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/715861-214/honduras-ha-sido-invadido-por-el-narcotráfico

Colombian Cartel Members Caught in Honduras, Sent back to Colombia
http://www.wbir.com/video/1742445529001/43961430001/Colombian-Cartel-Kingpin-Captured-in-Honduras

2011 Al-Qaeda reported in Honduras
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2145/al-qaeda-honduras
US. Government Warns Honduras of Possible Al-Qaeda Infiltration
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/us.-government-warns-honduras-of-possible-al-qaeda-infiltration/7906/

Obama Revealed in Guatemala Policy
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dr-armando-de-la-torre-and-steve-hecht/obama-revealed-in-guatemala-policy/

March 2014 Globalists and Gangs Back Marxist Mass-murderer in El Salvador
As The New American magazine has documented extensively, the region (Central America) is already dominated by a closely knit network of foreign-backed socialist tyrants.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/17799-globalists-and-gangs-back-marxist-mass-murderer-in-el-salvador

Chavez used Venezuelan Military to turn Venezuela into the Biggest drug Distributor in the World 2013
How Venezuela’s Military Tried to Fly A Ton of Cocaine to France
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/details-revealed-about-venezuela-militarys-massive-drug-smuggle

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives hom, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”

“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/

Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm

In 2011, DEA was laundering drug money from Mexican cartels, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;

2014 -Mexican Journalist Faces Death for Claiming War On Drugs is a Farce and Governments Are Complicit.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/140716/mexican-journalist-anabel-hernandez-drug-cartels-presidents

Rockefeller is Outed as a Soros Ally in the Drug Legalization Scheme in Latin America (Uruguay)
Illuminati Billionaires Love Marxists & Marijuana
Http://henrymakow.com/2013/09/Illuminati-Billionaires-Love-Marxists-Marijuana.html#sthash.UZwooUp2.dpuf

Soros spent at least $80 MILLION USD for drug legalization in US and Uruguay
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596471/George-Soros-spent-80million-pot-legalized-US-Uruguay.html

2014- Shadow Governments Around the Globe Expose Themselves
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article47142.html

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