The Pentagon’s Joint Staff warned in a recent intelligence briefing that Islamic State terrorists are entering Europe “mostly unimpeded,” according to defense officials.Read more here.
...According to the International Organization for Migration, a Geneva group, a total of 868,282 migrants have reached Europe since January, most of them through Greece from Turkey.
On Sunday, European and Turkish leaders concluded an agreement that seeks to reduce the refugee flow. Europe will provide $3.2 billion in aid in return for tightening its borders from the refugee outflow. Some 2 million Syrians fled to Turkey as a result of the conflict.
Turkish authorities detained 1,300 migrants on Monday, a sign of the new policy, Agence France Presse reported from Istanbul.
President Obama has accused Republicans of Islamophobia and charged them with being “scared” of refugees from Syria. He also said anti-immigration sentiment was fueling terrorism.
...Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has introduced legislation that would bar any refugee from a country with territory controlled in substantial part by the Islamic State, al Qaeda, or other designated terrorists.
...The military intelligence assessment follows the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris that investigators say involved one Islamic State terrorist who infiltrated Europe through Greece by posing as a refugee.
...According to European authorities, the Islamic State also obtained passport-production machinery and stamps used to validate them. The passports have been sold to smugglers in Turkey, who have sold them to Syrian refugees.
H/t David Adams
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