Posted on 09/03/2015 6:54:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
OSLO—After several failed attempts to reach Europe from Turkey, a 31-year-old Syrian asylum seeker found refuge in Norway’s capital last week after riding a bicycle across Russia’s Arctic border with Norway.
A first endeavor to cross the border by car was unsuccessful: Russian drivers no longer take refugees into Norway since it threatened to prosecute them for people trafficking. After learning he wouldn’t be allowed to walk through the checkpoint at Storskog, some 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the Syrian teacher from Hamah bought a bike for $150 and cycled a 20-mile stretch of gravel road to the border.
“I had my laptop on my chest and a bag on my back,” he said at the Refstad refugee shelter in Oslo. “I was wearing two jackets and two sets of underwear under my pants. North is cold.”
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Why can’t they just fix Syria?
The Russians are trying to, while Zero is trying to take it apart.
This guy actually has some smarts.
How stupid do they think we are? That is 3000 miles by the shortest route, according to Google.
Talk to our President about that, will you?
Can any Muslim country be fixed?
If they fought as hard for their country as they did trying to get out of it, Syria would be a halfway decent place.
Spain was fixed
We're watching Europe's suicide.
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