Posted on 09/14/2015 9:23:32 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Revealed: SECOND passenger claims Aylan Kurdi’s father was working with people smugglers and was driving the boat on which his son died
Second person on same boat as Aylan Kurdi says boy's father was driver Last week, Zainab Abbas said Abdullah Kurdi was a people smuggler Passenger Amir Haider has confirmed allegations the father was the driver Mr Kurdi denied claims and said he paid the same amount to the traffickers
A second passenger on board the boat that claimed the life of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi says the boy's father was driving.
Amir Haider, 22, repeated allegations that Abdullah Kurdi, who lost his wife and two children in the tragedy, was at the helm of the boat until it sank.
Last week, another passenger, Zainab Abbas, whose son and daughter died on the doomed boat trip, first made the claims, which were vehemently denied by Mr Kurdi. Aylan, three, died alongside his brother Galip, five, and mother, when their boat capsized on route to the Greek island of Kos.
The photograph of his tiny body washed up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, sparked a global outpouring of support for Syrian refugees as well as his grieving father.
But just days after Mr Kurdi returned to the Syrian city of Kobane to bury his family, fellow passengers on board the dinghy began making allegations against him.
Ahmed Hadi Jawwad and his wife Zainab Abbas, whose 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son drowned, said Mr Kurdi panicked and accelerated when a wave hit the boat.
'The story that (Mr Kurdi) told is untrue,' Mr Jawwad said, speaking from his in-laws' house in Baghdad on Friday. 'I don't know what made him lie, maybe fear.
'He was the driver from the very beginning until the boat sank.'
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Boat full o’ leeches. Got torpedo?
Bkmrk.
Lot of money on that boat ... At $100.00 per head? 1,000.00?
Who is getting the money? Who is giving the military-age “refugee” males their money? Their cross-country trips to the departure ports?
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