Syria Happy to Help "Refugees" Fake Their Way into Europe
Passports for sale! Passports for sale!
September 12, 2015
The official story is that all those poor refugees are fleeing Assad's oppression. But Assad seems eager to help them go.
Lax new rules handed down from Damascus allows passports to be issued abroad with virtually no checks for just £250.
Experts said the system, which allows Syrian citizens abroad to get passports without referring their applications to the country’s central immigration control, could be abused by terrorists and people smugglers.
News of the staggering numbers being issued without proper checks comes amid warnings about the growing illegal trade in the documents fuelled by German and Swedish pledges to house any refugees from Syria.
A document sent to all Syrian embassies in April raised the spectre of mass fraud by non-Syrians by appearing to show that those without any form of existing ID could buy the vital paperwork allowing them to leave the country and head to the EU.
In the memo, embassy staff were told passports should be issued to Syrians “even if they left in an illegal manner or they hold non-official passports or travel documents.”
Why is Assad doing this?
1. Obviously money - Refugee smuggling is big business and his regime is happy to take a cut. 10,000 passports being issued in August in Jordan adds up to 4 million dollars or so. Keep multiplying and you end up with half a billion dollars.
It's not bad for some pieces of paper.
2. Russia - Assad is an Iranian/Russian client and Moscow is obsessed with destroying Europe, particularly the big three players, the UK, France and Germany. A flood of Muslim migrants will eventually get that job done. Muslim migration will also destroy Russia, but it's not like anyone is thinking rationally here. Instead the various Western nations keep using Muslims as weapons against each other.
But that was also true back in the Gates of Vienna days.
3. Refugees as a Terror Weapon - There's quite a history of countries using refugee dumping to destabilize and damage other countries. Gaddafi is a famous regional example. Assad is warning Europe that the alternative is a flood of refugees and so it ought to meet his demands. Since Europe can't actually shut down the Syrian civil war, it's a little pointless, but European leaders aren't known for having any understanding of the situation anyway.
4. Mainly this benefits Iran, which can once again claim that it can stabilize everything as long as its demands are met. Again, all it can do is prolong the conflict, but that is what it wants anyway.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260096/syria-happy-help-refugees-fake-their-way-europe-daniel-greenfield
