Posted on 08/30/2015 3:09:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The risk that groups like Islamic State could smuggle militants into Europe under cover of a huge wave of migrants is much smaller than some politicians suggest, according to security specialists with close ties to governments and intelligence agencies.
By the end of July, more than a third of a million migrants and refugees had entered the European Union, mainly via Italy, Greece and Hungary, according to EU border agency Frontex. The flow has continued unabated through August.
Once inside the bloc’s borderless Schengen zone, the new arrivals—many from countries like Syria and Iraq where Islamic State holds sway over vast areas—are free to travel through 26 countries without restrictions or checks.
That has prompted anti-immigration parties such as Italy’s Northern League and Britain’s UKIP to issue dire warnings about the threat of infiltration. […]
But such warnings meet with skepticism from security experts who point out that the flow of fighters has mainly been in the opposite direction, from Europe toward the Middle East. …
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Whistling past the graveyard.
Nanny Palosi says: I told ya so...
Oh, they know it, they just won’t admit it.
They want to quell any panic.
You better believe they have sleeper agents amongst these migrants.
The terrorists have other plans.
I tend to agree. Attacking the West would tend to dry up funding from Muslims in the West.
They’ll probably find out soon enough.
Hasn’t worked that way yet. Every attack seems to make the “West” pay more, actually.
And the security EXPERTS have also concluded that the sun don’t rise in the east.
Of course, the “experts” don’t have to live nearby...
I wish somebody important would call them out on their ridiculousness. Of course militants and revolutionaries and Islamic extremists are infiltrating through unchecked immigration — knowingly and unknowingly.
I want a job as an expert.
I can get paid millions of dollars to act shocked when all of my predictions are wrong too. :)
And no matter how many times I’m demonstrated wrong, I still get to keep the title “expert”.
It would be an awesome job. :)
They don’t need to hide terrorists. The whole lot of them are there to take over.
Flying passenger jets into buildings was probably unlikely at one time too.
European “experts”??? Don’t these fools ever get out of their small, cramped apartments? moozlums have successfully invaded most of Europe.
“European Experts” .... too funny!
You only have to sneak a couple of dozen into Europe to create havoc. Why wouldn’t they want to do that? They have plenty of like minded people already there.
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