More on the Syrian refugee crisis - 09/08/2015

There is more than a sense that these migrants who have often been in camps in Turkey and have been unleashed on Europe as a conscious policy by Washington to soften public opinion for unleashing war on Syria using ISIS as a smoke screen

“Speaking to reporters at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Turkey on Saturday, he (David Cameron) said that meant dealing with the "evil" regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as well as the militant jihadists of IS”

It also appears (see the video below) that knowing that Syrians are welcome at present in Europe people of other nationalities are posing as Syrian refugees including previous fighters for terrorist organisations

Countries sending most arms to Syria have accepted fewest of refugees they've created

http://stopwar.org.uk/news/countries-sending-most-arms-to-syria-have-accepted-fewest-of-refugees-they-ve-helped-create

Combined, eight countries that sent most weapons to Syria since 2011 only accepted 2 percent of refugees that Germany has taken in.

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THE PHOTO of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach, is a heartbreaking symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees.

Aylan’s family had hoped to settle in Canada to escape the poverty of refugee camps, but due to an absence of international support, his family was doomed to rely on human traffickers in an attempt to get to the West.

Combined, the 8 countries that sent the most weapons to Syria since 2011 only accepted 2 percent of the refugees Germany has taken in.

This $16 billion in so called “military aid” has been entering Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, providing support for various warring factions within Syria. Yet, the destruction these countries are waging on Syria comes not only in the form of war, but also in the callousness with which they treat those most affected by the war.

Many of these same countries fueling the slaughter have also been some of the least willing to grant amnesty to Syria’s refugees.

The same countries rushing to rip Syria to shreds for geopolitical gains refuse to take responsibility for their role or accept even a modest number of Syrian refugees. The international community has failed to properly fund the Syrian refugee camps in the poor countries that border Syria.

The US bears a special responsibility for the devastation in Syria — and by extension its refugee crisis. ISIS, which is an outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq, would not exist today if George W. Bush hadn’t invaded Iraq in March of 2003. 

Yet, Obama also bears a large responsibility for the tragedy in Syria. The US has been spending nearly $1 billion a year in covert military assistance for rebel groups in Syria, as well as spending $10 million a day on 6,550 airstrikes on ISIS, with 37% of those strikes taking place in Syria.

According to a 2015 report from the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. has, since 2011, spent an estimated $7.7 billion in Syria in combined military and “humanitarian” aid — much of which ends up in the hands of ISIS.

For all the Obama administration’s willingness to engage in the destruction of Syria, and all of his human rights rhetoric, he has shown little interest in assisting Syrian refugees.

According to the International Rescue Committee, the US has acceptedonly 1,434 of Syria’s 4 million refugees (the US pledge to accept up to 8,000 has been criticized by the IRC). This is shameful, given the great wealth of the US government in comparison to Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan—the 5 countries currently hosting 95% of Syria’s refugees.

Other Western countries participating in Syria’s civil war are little better than the US. Britain’s role in the air war against ISIS has cost $122 million so far, yet it’s accepted only 4,866 Syrian refugees.

Canada, which will spend $528 million fighting ISIS over the next year, on top of already allotting approximately $190 million in taxpayer dollars to funding the Syrian opposition, has accepted only 2,300 Syrians.

European Union nations joining with the US in bombing Syria (UK, France,Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands) spent an estimated $882 million as of 2013, yet have only accepted just over 16,000 refugees combined. The Netherlands refuses to accept more than 250 Syrian refugees.

Russia has played a large role in Syria’s war by supplying billions in weapons to the Syrian government. An estimated 10% of Russia exported weapons are sent to Syria. Russia reportedly has $1.5 billion worth of ongoing arms contracts with Syria for various missile systems and upgrades to tanks and aircraft, reportedly doubling that investment in small arms sales since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. 

Despite the very direct role Russia has played in the Syrian war, the country has currently only accepted 1,395 Syrian refugees on temporary asylum.

The Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have also played a significant role in Syria’s devastation, funneling billions in weapons and cash to Syrian rebel groups. Qatar alonespent at least $3 billion over just the first two years of the war.

The Kuwaiti government — which has invested at least $800 million in Syria since 2010 — spent an initial $100 million funding the Syrian civil war, and funneled an additional $300 million into the country since 2011.

Saudi Arabia, thought to be a leading source of arms for rebels by 2013, has partnered with Turkey and Qatar to funnel an estimated $136 million of arms to rebel groups across the border from Turkey in a new bit to bring down Bashar-al Assad.

The United Arab Emirates sent $215 million (in alleged “humanitarian contributions”) to Syria since 2011. Not one of the Gulf nations has pledged to accept any Syrian refugees.

In stark contrast, Western countries like Germany, Greece, Sweden, and Austria have been far more generous. Germany, for instance, is set to take in 800,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year. The Berlin-based Refugees Welcome is even trying to create an Airbnb for refugees. Throughout Germany a movement to assist asylum seekers is taking root.

Other countries should follow suit. The instability brought to Syria has its roots largely in the US/UK, the Gulf, and Russia. If these countries don’t step up to accept far more refugees there will be many more tragedies like the death of Aylan Kurdi.

Source: USUncut

Ahmad Abd Alkarim Alhije: a terrorist and former leader of Ahrar Alforat battalion. This terrorist is responsible for several killing crimes in Syria.

He is acting as a poor refugee in Germany now!!

Please, any German following us here must report him to the nearest police station!! — with murderer.

This gives us a sense of the scale of what is in essence, an invasion

My own personal reaction was of initial sympathy for those trying to escape Islamic State. However the situation is much more complicated

The piece below gives only two options for the countries in Europe.  

The countries that have not contributed in any way to this situation (Greece, Serbia, Hungary) are on the front line. Greece has literally been thrown under the bus a second time by the EU.

The nations that were responsible for bombing Libya and unleashing terrorism on the area (the United States, Britain and France) are taking the least  refugees. One small Greek island is coping with a greater quantity of refugees in a single night than the aggressors are in a whole year

Engineered Refugee Crisis to Justify "Safe Havens" in Syria

Tony Cartalucci

Land Destroyer,

7 September, 2015

While the Western media attempts to portray the sudden influx of refugees suddenly appearing out of no where at Europe's gates, the reality is that for years they have been gathering in expansive, well-funded refugee camps in Turkey.

Image: Turkey has eagerly invited 2 million refugees into their country to stay at camps funded by upward to 6 billion USD, not out of altruism, but to use refugees together with the US, NATO, and the EU, as a geopolitical weapon.

In fact, Turkey has brought in over 2 million refugees with a suspiciously eager "open door" policy and has spent upward to 6 billion USD on building and maintaining these immense camps. They have done so as part of a long-standing strategy to justify creating "safe havens" in northern Syria - essentially NATO invading and occupying Syrian territory, protecting their terrorist proxies within Syria's borders so that they can strike deeper toward Damascus and finally topple the government of President Bashar Al Assad.
US plans to carve out a "safe haven" or "buffer zone" in northern Syria stretch back as far as 2012 - before a real crisis even existed. In their "Middle East Memo #21," "Assessing Options for Regime Change," it was stated specifically (emphasis added):

An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts.

Brookings would elaborate upon this criminal conspiracy in their more recent report titled, "Deconstructing Syria: Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country." It states (emphasis added): 

The  idea would be to help moderate elements establish reliable safe zones within Syria once they were able. American, as well as Saudi and Turkish and British and Jordanian and other Arab forces would act in support, not only from the air but eventually on the ground via the  presence  of  special  forces  as  well. The  approach would  benefit  from  Syria’s open desert  terrain  which  could  allow  creation  of  buffer  zones  that could  be  monitored  for possible  signs  of  enemy  attack  through  a  combination  of  technologies, patrols,  and other methods that outside special forces could help Syrian local fighters set up.

Were Assad foolish enough to challenge these zones, even if he somehow forced the withdrawal  of  the  outside  special  forces,  he  would  be  likely  to  lose  his  air power  in ensuing  retaliatory  strikes  by  outside  forces,  depriving  his  military  of  one  of its  few advantages over ISIL.Thus, he would be unlikely to do this.

Unfortunately for US policymakers, little justification or public support underpins any of these plans to intervene more directly in Syria in pursuit of what is obviously regime change dressed up as anything but.

Bring in the Refugees 

However, in hopes of solving this lack of public support, the West appears to have taken a huge number of refugees created by its years of war upon the Middle East and North Africa, and suddenly releasing them in a deluge upon Europe. The Western media itself implicates Turkey as the source of these refugees, and reports like that from the International New York Times' Greek Kathimerini paper, in an article titled, "Refugee flow linked to Turkish policy shift," claims (emphasis added):

A sharp increase in the influx of migrants and refugees, mostly from Syria, into Greece is due in part to a shift in Turkey’s geopolitical tactics, according to diplomatic sources.

These officials link the wave of migrants into the eastern Aegean to political pressures in neighboring Turkey, which is bracing for snap elections in November, and to a recent decision by Ankara to join the US in bombing Islamic State targets in Syria. The analyses of several officials indicate that the influx from neighboring Turkey is taking place as Turkish officials look the other way or actively promote the exodus.

This wasn't done until after years of staged terror attacks across Europe, in attempts to ratchet up fear, xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia. Every attack without exception involved patsies tracked by Western intelligence agencies in some cases for almost a decade. Many had traveled to and participated in NATO's proxy war on Syria, Iraq, and Yemen before returning home to carry out predictable acts of violence.

Image: Even Western "international" organizations find it difficult to hide NATO's role in the refugee crisis with most migrants transiting through NATO-destroyed Libya, and NATO-member Turkey.

In the case of the infamous "Charlie Hebo" massacre, French security agencies followed the gunmen for years - even arresting and imprisoning one briefly. This surveillance continued up to but not including the final six months needed for them to plan and carry out their final act of violence. When asked why French security agencies ended their surveillance of known terrorists, they cited a lack of funds.
With Europeans intentionally put into a state of fear at home and in hopes of eliciting support for wars abroad NATO appears to now be undulating Europe with a tidal wave or refugees intentionally accumulated and cared for in Turkey either to flood back into NATO-established safe zones in Syria or into Europe to extort from the public backing for further military aggression.
The Big Reveal 
The Huffington Post's article, "David Cameron Facing Pressure To Bomb Islamic State In Syria After Lord Carey Calls To Group To Be 'Crushed'," in covering the political discourse in England provides us with the final reveal of what was really behind this sudden "crisis."

Image: The Western media ensures that articles discussing the possibility of using the refugee crisis as justification to further decimate Syria includes lots of pictures of desperate refugees struggling to burst into Europe.

It state (emphasis added):

David Cameron is facing growing pressure to extend RAF air strikes into Syria as the worsening conflict threatened to drive increasing numbers of desperate refugees to seek sanctuary in Europe.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey became the latest senior figure to call for a renewed military effort to "crush" Islamic State (IS) in its Syrian heartlands.He also backed calls for British military intervention to help create "safe enclaves" within the country where civilians would be protected from attack by the warring parties in Syria's bloody civil war.  

The Huffington Post's report would also state (emphasis added):

His intervention came after Chancellor George Osborne acknowledged that a comprehensive plan was needed to tackle the refugee crisis "at source".

Speaking to reporters at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Turkey on Saturday, he said that meant dealing with the "evil" regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as well as the militant jihadists of IS.

At the end of the day, the "refugee crisis" is yet another contrivance by the same special interests who first sought to intervene in Syria to back "freedom fighters," then to stop the use of "WMDs," and most recently to fight "ISIS." Now with all three failing to justify what is otherwise naked military aggression openly pursuing regime change in Syria as a basis for wider confrontation with Iran, Russia, and even China, "refugees" are being used as human pawns to provoke fear and rage across Europe. 

'Dick Cheney wants Syria destroyed'