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“Nearly impossible” to find jihadists among migrants, Greeks warn

Nov 22, 2015 9:40 am By Robert Spencer

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“‘Nearly impossible’ to find jihadists among migrants, Greeks warn,” AFP, November 21, 2015:

Lesbos (Greece) (AFP) – As the hunt for jihadists widens after last week’s Paris attacks, authorities in Greece warn it was virtually impossible to pick out dangerous extremists among arriving migrants, without prior intelligence.

“If they are not already registered in the database, it’s nearly impossible,” says Dimitris Amountzias, police captain in charge of Moria, Greece’s main registration camp on the island of Lesbos.

At the camp, dozens of migrants and refugees queue to give their fingerprints, have a photo taken and be quizzed by agents from European border agency Frontex.

It’s a seemingly detailed security check, but jihadists have already proven they can bypass it with ease.

The suspected architect of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, 28-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud, escaped from Europe to Syria and returned without being detected.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve this week suggested Abaaoud, who was killed in a police raid in Paris on Wednesday, had passed through Greece.

Athens denied this on Friday. “Until today, no source has provided any evidence to confirm this claim,” the Greek citizen’s protection ministry said in a statement.

Greek police were looking for Abaaoud in Athens in January, after a Belgian police raid in the eastern town of Verviers broke up a cell planning attacks.

At the time, a cellphone was found to have made calls to the Verviers group from Greece.

Greece extradited to Belgium a 33-year-old Algerian man arrested in a raid in the Athens district of Pangrati, but Abaaoud was never found.

“The unchecked flow poses an unequalled challenge for European security,” said a European security expert speaking on condition of anonymity.

– ‘We don’t really know’ –

Still, it was thanks to Greece’s fingerprints database — and a passport found near the scene of the attack — that French and Greek authorities were able to determine that one of the men who blew himself up outside the Stade de France on November 13 had registered himself as Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Mohammad on the island of Leros on October 3.

On Friday, French prosecutor Francois Molins said a second Stade de France bomber had passed through Greece posing as a migrant.

The Greek police did not immediately react to the announcement.

Amountzias insists his officers are doing their best under the current guidelines.

“There isn’t a single officer here who would let a migrant through without first taking their fingerprints,” he insists….

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  1. ? says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Hmm, interesting. Well all you have to do is look for the ones who everyone else distances themselves from and warns others about because the cult of the “religion of peace” has absolutely nothing to do with violence or terrorists and distances themselves from them as much as possible….
    Piece of cake….

    Sarc/off

    This is the reaping 666

  2. Georg says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 10:49 am

    A less circuitous way of finding out how many are terrorists might be to ask, “How many terrorists are migrants?” rather than, “How many migrants are terrorists?”. The ratio appears to be around fever pitch.

    • Charli Main says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 11:14 am

      Active terrorists or Muslim migrants, they will all be carrying the Islamo-Rabies virus. Every one a potential mass murdering, Allah Akhbar screaming, Jihadist.

      • Don McKellar says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30 am

        And THAT is exactly the problem here. Terrorist today or five years from now when they get serious about their religion and start following what’s commanded in the blood-thirsty Koran and the blood-soaked example of Muhammad in the hadiths. What does it matter if they are a terrorist at this moment? Every single one a ticking time-bomb that may or may not go off.

      • Jay Boo says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 6:38 pm

        Not only is the liberal MSM ignoring that when they whine that we have an obligation to accept Syrians they won’t even dare mention that nearby Muslim Gulf States have themselves shirked any responsibility.
        That is a Big RED flag
        This proves that the MSM is totally untrustworthy.

  3. Jack Diamond says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Keep in mind Abu Oud had been a wanted man on police radar. Abu Oud had been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium, in absentia, for being part of the largest jihadi recruitment network in Belgium for the Islamic State. His photo had been widely published. He was a well-known ISIS leader and beheader. Yet he could travel back and forth from Syria, in and out of Belgium, and slip through security. Is this a lesson America could learn from? Listen to him brag in Dabiq magazine how clever they are, how inept the kaffir, tell of how he was stopped en route by an officer after his photo had been circulated in Belgium–but–the officer “let me go, as he did not see the resemblance.”

    Remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on a watch list and to be detained at JFK airport coming back from Dagestan-and terrorist training-but slipped through because his name was misspelled in the database.
    The ISIS shooter at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Nemmouche, got back into Europe from Syria despite being on a “watch” list, thanks to his (continued) French citizenship and poor and porous security. Abu Oud: “a Muslim should not fear the bloated image of the crusader intelligence.”

    Meanwhile–

    The NY Times Nov. 15, 2015 did an expose on the “vetting” process for the refugees/invaders.
    “European authorities are completing few checks on the hundreds of thousands of people moving across their territory fleeing war and poverty.

    The passport found near the body of a {Paris} suicide bomber was registered in October in Greece, Serbia and Croatia, three of the countries on the corridor that crosses the Balkans and is known for lax controls and ease in obtaining transit documents. The owner was allowed to proceed because he passed what is essentially the only test in place — he had no international arrest warrant against him, police in the states said Sunday.

    It was not clear whether the passport was real or fake, {*note it was faked in Turkey} or whether it belonged to the suicide bomber. But trafficking in fake Syrian passports has increased as hundreds of thousands of people try to get refugee status, the chief of the European Union border agency Frontex has said.

    Most of those who enter countries on the so-called Balkan corridor for migrants — Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia — are registered with authorities. Their data are checked against Interpol records, and their fingerprints and photos are taken. But, many people tell officials that they’ve lost their identity papers, and they can give false names and other information, including their country of origin.

    A large majority of migrants declare themselves as Syrians from the war-torn country, although they have no documents to prove it, Serbian police say. Syrian refugees have a better chance of getting asylum in Germany than those classified as economic migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan.
    In Serbia, some 490,000 migrants have passed through this year, and many say they don’t have documents — making it impossible to check for terrorist connections or criminal histories, to verify their backgrounds, Serbian officials said Sunday. There are no recorded cases of people being turned away after random checks anywhere in the Balkan migrant corridor.

    That may be because the corridor states want migrants to pass through quickly, without getting stuck in their territory for a long time before reaching rich EU states such as Germany, Sweden or France.”

    And the United States of America.

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 11:36 am

    OFF-TOPIC BUT URGENT —– I sometimes ask all JW readers here to collaborate on a “group push” to contact elected officials or candidates. What I will ask now is the most important, by far, of all those urgings to act together. Even if you cannot stand some of these guys (Trump / Carson / Rubio / Cruz / Bush / Kasich) contact their campaign websites, passing along links to these videos:

    David Wood’s “The Jihad Triangle”, “Taqiyya”, “Three Stages of Jihad”. Mention that the “Three Stages” vid is 25 minutes long and abundantly cited with references to the sacred texts and teachings, so taking notes for independent verification (with a freshly-bought Qur’an in hand, with English on the left side and Arabic on the right side) is highly recommended.

    And in the text of your email, provide these specific chapters and verses, so the candidates themselves can read them, not having to call a Muslim imam who will, of course, go into full panic mode and insist that any such verses must be in the Islamophobe’s edition, recently printed by Robert Spencer and distributed all across America at his own time and huge expense :

    Qur’an 3:32 / 48:29 / 47:35 /4:24 / 5:33 / 9:29 / 9:73 / 9:111 / 9:123. Let them know what abrogation is, thus emphasizing that Chapter 9 comes chronologically 2nd to last, thus canceling all previous verses that address the same specific aspect of behavior toward non-believers and hypocrites.

    I CANNOT DISCLOSE NOW WHAT MY SECOND REASON IS FOR ASKING EVERYONE TO DO THIS — BUT THE FIRST REASON IS OBVIOUSLY EDUCATIONAL. You could end your remarks by having the candidates notice David Wood’s care in the videos to NOT declare all Muslims, particularly Westernized ones, are going to wage jihad with motivation from those Qur’an passages; rather, they ARE AMONG THE TOOLS RECRUITERS USE TO GAIN OBEDIENCE FROM RESISTANT MUSLIMS.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    “Nearly”? They’re being kind…

  6. Bela Csakany says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    “Nearly Impossible” to find? Must not be any! (sarc/off)

    “Zlozcie Kopie!”

  7. duh_swami says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 5:34 am

    It’s easy to spot the jihadi……it’s all of them…if they are pious Mahoundins…But don’t worry, they won’t be vetted for that…

    • Jack Diamond says

      Nov 23, 2015 at 9:20 am

      We are still some attacks away from the consensus moving from ISIS immigrant bad/Muslim immigrant good toward ISIS immigrant bad/Muslim immigrant bad. Maybe even taking our immigration policy back from the United Nations. Maybe even stop imposing a “shameful religious test” that discriminates against persecuted Christians in favor of Sunni Muslims. Of course, I also believe in Sanity Claus.

  8. Jack McCall says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    No single young man or woman should be given entry to any country, with or without papers.

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