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  • Charlie Hebdo criticized for dead Syrian toddler's cartoon

    09/15/2015 5:02:15 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    India Times ^ | Sep 15, 2015, 02.53 PM IST
    PARIS: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been criticized for publishing a cartoon depicting the death of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as its own controversial take on the refugee and migration crisis, the media reported on Tuesday. The cartoon attributed to the publication and circulating on social media features Aylan lying face down on a beach with the words "So close to his goal..."
  • Revealed: SECOND passenger claims Aylan Kurdi’s father was working with people smugglers

    09/14/2015 9:23:32 AM PDT · by COUNTrecount · 6 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | September 14, 2015 | Jenny Stanton For Mailonline
    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...
  • Aylan Kurdi: Drowned boy’s father accused of being people smuggler in charge of boat that crashed

    09/11/2015 5:10:56 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 21 replies
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 11, 2015 | Daniel Meers and Ben McClellan
    The father of the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach, rocking the whole world to its core, has been accused of being a people smuggler who captained the fateful voyage. A woman, who claimed to have lost her two children on the vessel, made the stunning claims to Network Ten via her cousin who lives in Sydney on Friday night. The image of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body was the catalyst for Australia to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees who are fleeing persecution in their homeland. It was claimed last night that his ­father Abdullah was a...
  • Aylan Kurdi: Drowned boy’s father accused of being people smuggler in charge of boat that crashed

    09/12/2015 9:33:05 AM PDT · by mojito · 8 replies
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 9/11/2015 | Daniel Meers and Ben McClellan
    THE father of the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach, rocking the whole world to its core, has been accused of being a people smuggler who captained the fateful voyage. A woman who lost two of her three children on the vessel made the stunning claims to Network Ten via her cousin, who lives in Sydney, on Friday night. The image of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body was the catalyst for Australia to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees who are fleeing persecution in their homeland.