This is the sort of measure that the countries west of Poland have been so far unwilling to take. But realistically, if one cannot by any means screen out the jihadists from the moderate Muslims, and the moderates are not helping identify the jihadists either, is what the Poles have done really so unreasonable? From Itar-Tass, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
MINSK, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - According to various data, between 100 and 150 Russian citizens from Chechnya congregated in the Belarussian city of Brest. Most of them are expected to try again on Monday to cross the Belarussian-Polish border.On Sunday, over 90 Chechens passed the Brest border passage point, but 75 of them were forced to return to Belarus several hours later. On Saturday, the Polish side admitted only 24 Russian citizens of the Chechen nationality out of 125. No explanations have been received from the Polish side so far why the Polish authorities refused to admit Russian citizens. According to Belarussian borderguards, Russian Chechens have in order all documents, necessary for a foreign trip.
I see your point, although just turning away Chechens, because they're Chechens could prove difficult.
Compare Spain, it functions as the last stop for millions of Maghrebis returning home for the summer vacations. This year some 2.8 million made the crossing, and all will have returned by now (that's more than 5 million crossings either way). I'm sure there's Al Qaeda cells using this crossing as well to mix in.
V-Man
At this point it might be useful to offer a somewhat pedantic comment.
A few posts ago on Jihad watch you wrote that on December 7, 1944 we were only three years into our war against fascism but already we were winning. You argued that the war against jihad was different and so we should not be so optimistic but be realistic about successes and failures.
Given Poland's support here, let me correct you with regard to the statement about WWII: For the Poles, the war against fascism started on September 1, 1939. In addition, their war against communism begain a little more than two weeks later, September 17, 1939 --and didn't end for 50 more years.
Poland: first to fight Hitler.
Poland: home of Jan Sobieski, who trounced the Turks at the gates of Vienna.
ALL border security should be stepped up. There is some hint Russia is about to do some action in
Nth Caucasus...
The signs show that there's a growing wariness of Islam and Muslims in most non-Islamic societies. The reaction of the Nepalese street to the killings of the 12 guest workers in Iraq is a telling contrast to that of France or most European countries--although I cannot condone the Nepalese mob action against people who might have disapproved of the killings.