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Europe takes in refugees by the millions; Saudis blow them out of the water
The Duran ^ | March 27, 2017 | Ricky Twisdale

Posted on 03/28/2017 6:51:07 AM PDT by all the best

While Germany, Greece, the Visegrad countries, and Brussels all argue about who should take in the most migrants, the Saudis have evidently found a much simpler solution to the problem.

A boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen was allegedly attacked by the Saudi-led coalition which is intervening in Yemen’s civil war, reported Human Rights Watch.

“The coalition’s apparent firing on a boat filled with fleeing refugees is only the latest likely war crime in Yemen’s two-year-long war,” HRW’s Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson said. Here’s their account of what transpired: One of the boat’s four Yemeni crew members told Human Rights Watch that the boat was about 50 kilometers off the coast of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, traveling away from Yemen, when it was attacked… Four people aboard the boat said that at about 9 p.m. they saw a helicopter repeatedly shoot at the boat. A Somali woman refugee, 25, who was wounded in the attack, said, “All of a sudden, I saw a helicopter above us. … They attacked abruptly. … When they kept firing at us, those of us who spoke Arabic kept saying, ‘We are Somalis!’” Another woman said that she was hit by a fragment from an explosive weapon. A crew member and others said a large naval ship also fired on the boat. After the attack, the boat docked at Hodeida port at about 4:30 a.m. The head of the fishing port, Daoud Fadel, said, “We couldn’t find a place to put the bodies, so we had to put them in the place where we store the fish.” A total of 32 were reported killed in the attack on the boat, with 29 wounded and a further 10 missing. A total of 145 refugees were on board at the time.

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TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europe; refugees; saudi; somalia; somalirefugees; yemen
Maybe there's a middle ground.
1 posted on 03/28/2017 6:51:07 AM PDT by all the best
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To: all the best

Muslim immigrants and refugees are destroying Europe

Hillary would have brought that here to the USA

Islam is a bunch of lies and a threat to the USA

The Koran is an extremely evil book

Thank your lucky stars Trump won and not Hillary. Keep things in perspective


2 posted on 03/28/2017 6:55:38 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: all the best

Why should we be on a higher moral ground than the Saudis? No reason why we can’t do what m*slims do to other *slims.


3 posted on 03/28/2017 6:58:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: all the best

Dunno.
I think the Saudis have the right idea here.


4 posted on 03/28/2017 7:15:08 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: all the best
Maybe there's a middle ground.

There is.

The middle of the ocean.

5 posted on 03/28/2017 7:25:21 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: all the best

Muslims killing Muslims. If only they’d keep it to that!


6 posted on 03/28/2017 7:40:06 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: grobdriver

Just stop rescuing them in the Med. they will get the idea.


7 posted on 03/28/2017 7:41:02 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: all the best

I’m suddenly reminded of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcaRVbG_gW4

Bomb the boats... Feed the fish.


8 posted on 03/28/2017 7:46:59 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Oldexpat
We dropped survival packs to the Vietnamese boat people in the late 70's. Open the cabin door, fly over at 500 feet and kick the things out. Food. water.

But we sure as hell didn't bring them all home with us!

9 posted on 03/28/2017 7:51:34 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

Stop global warming and that will end the refugee crisis.


10 posted on 03/28/2017 9:03:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Oldexpat
Just stop rescuing them in the Med. they will get the idea

As in:

and


11 posted on 03/28/2017 2:14:19 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Oatka

Nice, new inflatables. Probably Soros funded.

Europe is gone.

Then what?

Will we be strong enough to resist? We are hardly resisting now, and Obama has seeded hundreds of thousands of sons of Satan among the 57 states.

There is little time. I hope President Trump appeals soon to those who honored him with the Presidency, We The People.


12 posted on 03/28/2017 4:22:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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