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As many as 700 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean
Reuters ^ | 15 Sept 2014 | Stephanie Nebehay

Posted on 09/15/2014 2:59:11 PM PDT by Thistooshallpass9

More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.

In the worst incident, as many as 500 migrants are believed to have died after traffickers rammed their ship off Malta's coast last week, an event that only came to light this weekend in testimony from two of nine survivors.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: mediterranean

1 posted on 09/15/2014 2:59:11 PM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
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To: Thistooshallpass9

500 invaders and soon to be illegal aliens and squatters drowned at sea. It’s difficult to care about this incident.


2 posted on 09/15/2014 3:03:44 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: StormEye

How Christian of you.


3 posted on 09/15/2014 3:04:53 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: StormEye

So i take it “trafficers” are human trafficers and they rammed the boat, because they saw it as competition?


4 posted on 09/15/2014 3:05:50 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Thistooshallpass9

I wonder how many of those are Christians trying to escape the bloodbath by Islam in those places.


5 posted on 09/15/2014 3:06:30 PM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Thistooshallpass9

Lots of unanswered in this article.


6 posted on 09/15/2014 3:10:27 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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7 posted on 09/15/2014 3:15:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Thistooshallpass9
Africa is just on the cusp of becoming a booming place.

(Just like for the last 54 years.)

8 posted on 09/15/2014 3:16:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: StormEye

Your compassion is noted. Through the luck of the draw you were fortunate enough to be born in a civilized part of the world. Others weren’t so lucky.


9 posted on 09/15/2014 4:04:12 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: rockinqsranch

The good intentions of the open borders folks is paving the road to hell for these refugees. Maybe if all of the countries of the world got together and stated that borders were to be respected and those crossing them illegally would be immediately sent home tragedies such as this could be avoided.


10 posted on 09/15/2014 4:08:59 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Thistooshallpass9

Minor delay in the repopulation plans for Europe...


11 posted on 09/15/2014 4:22:00 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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sorry to hear that; in other news today, a Cyclone is speeding towards the Baja.....


12 posted on 09/15/2014 4:25:51 PM PDT by B212
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To: artichokegrower

Absolutely.


13 posted on 09/15/2014 4:25:53 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: bigdaddy45

Some years back, I don’t know if it was Silvio Berlesconni but one Italian leader said the Italian Navy should just sink these ships and the migrants on them.


14 posted on 09/15/2014 5:12:08 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Paladin2

They just need more money. That’ll solve the problem.


15 posted on 09/15/2014 5:16:31 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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