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Russian Airstrikes and Rising Violence Raise Fears of New Syrian Refugee Crisis
New York Times ^ | October 26, 2015 | By KAREEM FAHIM and MAHER SAMAAN

Posted on 10/26/2015 5:14:43 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A tenuous truce in the Syrian countryside north of the city of Homs was shattered this month, when Russian warplanes started to attack the village of Ter Ma’aleh, killing at least a dozen people and sending most of the residents into hurried exile.

The assault on the village was part of a wider escalation of violence across the country that has displaced tens of thousands of people in just weeks and led relief workers to warn that Syria is facing one of its most serious humanitarian crises of the civil war.

The intensity of the fighting, they say, is fueling increased desperation as a growing number of Syrians are fleeing to neighboring countries and, especially, to Europe. More than 9,000 migrants a day crossed into Greece last week, according to the International Organization for Migration, the most since the beginning of the year.

The influx has overwhelmed authorities in Greece and the northern European countries where most asylum seekers aim to settle. The leaders of those countries moved late Sunday to deal with the increasing flow of tens of thousands of people escaping the war in Syria and elsewhere. European Union leaders in Brussels agreed to establish reception centers in Greece and along the “Balkan route” in Europe to process and hold up to 100,000 asylum seekers. . .

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1 posted on 10/26/2015 5:14:43 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

90% military aged men. They aren’t refugees, they’re draft dodgers.


2 posted on 10/26/2015 5:21:03 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There is no problem unless the west WANTS there to be a problem.

Simply turn them away. They’ll stop coming. Easy.


3 posted on 10/26/2015 5:41:40 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Hugin
90% military aged men. They aren’t refugees, they’re draft dodgers.

Either that, or it is a deliberate move, to flood the western countries with tons of muzzies.

4 posted on 10/26/2015 6:11:59 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How many German refugees did we accept while we bombed Germany during WWII? How many Japanese refugees did we accept while we bombed Japan during WWII? I miss my country.


5 posted on 10/26/2015 7:06:13 PM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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