Merkel admits: Jihad terrorists smuggled into Europe with refugees

It would seem that Angela Merkel has finally has come to her senses in acknowledging that jihadists have been smuggled into Europe through the refugee stream.

But with a recent survey showing that Germans are no longer welcoming of Muslim refugees — because of rapes, assaults and other crimes — it became politically expedient for Merkel to make her public declaration, especially in the face of embarrassing criticism and blame for what befell Germany at the hands of migrants due to Merkel’s (wide) open-door policy.

Germany’s spy chief, Hans Georg Maassen, also said last week that 17 Islamic State jihadis entered Europe under the guise of being refugees. Those are the ones that are known about. Some plans for jihadist destruction are outlined in the article below, as well as another report that indicated that 499 other jihadists are being monitored by officials.

Terrorists smuggled into Europe amid refugee flow – Merkel”, RT News, July 11, 2016:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted that some terrorists entered Europe among the wave of migrants that fled from Syria adding that the refugee flow was used in part to “smuggle terrorists” on to the continent.

Speaking to supporters of her Christian Democrat Union party in eastern Germany, Merkel admitted that militant groups had smuggled jihadists among those genuinely looking to seek asylum in Europe.

“In part, the refugee flow was even used to smuggle terrorists,” she said, as cited by Reuters.

Merkel’s open-door policy, which was criticized by a significant section of the German population, saw more than 1 million migrants arrive in Germany in 2015, with a number of those originating from Syria.

The announcement from Merkel comes just over a week after Germany’s spy chief Hans Georg Maassen said the domestic intelligence agency had obtained information on 17 IS militants who had entered Europe under the guise of refugees.

“There is strong evidence that… 17 people have arrived under Islamic State instructions,” Maassen said.

In the same month, a chilling plot emerged, which involved a group of Syrians linked to IS who wanted to carry out a terror attack in.

Two members of the four-man group planned to detonate suicide vests in the center of the western German city, while the other members would look to kill as many people in the vicinity with a combination of explosives and gunfire.

Three of the suspects were identified as 27-year-old Hamza C., 25-year-old Mahood B., and Abd Arahman AK, 31. They were arrested at various locations around Germany. Their plan was revealed when a fourth member, 25-year-old Saleh A., handed himself in to police in France in February.

“According to current investigations, the four accused were planning to commit an attack in Germany for the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State,” said the prosecutors, as cited by AFP.

The head of Germany’s police trade union, Rainer Wendt, said that budget cuts are potentially making it easier for terrorists to cross into the country amongst the refugee influx because it is impossible to screen all the migrants.

“It would have been useful in the second half of last year to create conditions for background checks on all people who came to us, in fact, before they traveled [to Germany]. But that is past history now, as we cannot afford it,” he told the news show SWRinfo.

The German authorities announced in June that they are monitoring 499 Islamic extremists who are deemed by the security services to pose a threat. Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth said security agencies had received regular tip-offs about possible Islamic extremists coming to Germany as asylum seekers and were systematically checking those reports……..

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