20,000 Afghan Refugees Coming To The Uk.

[The Joker]

17 minutes ago, L00b said:

Far from any Brexit notions, and topically for the thread (-ish, since these won’t be flown to the UK), the EU is managing to repatriate its Afghan collaborators. 260 were passed through by French special forces this morning.

 

https://twitter.com/david_martinon/status/1429667378674159619?s=20

Is your Ambo still processing visas on the ground at the airport? I hope that he gets the recognition which he so richly deserves.

You gotta love Le Frenchies.

 

We may call them a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys / rifle-droppers, but they do take good care of their citizens:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/french-aid-worker-sophie-petronin-freed-by-islamic-extremists-in-mali-returns-to-france

 

Compare them to Shagger Boris, who practially signed the arrest warrant for dual-citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when he declared she was in Iran to train local journalists, when in fact she was on holiday visiting family:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/12/woman-jailed-in-iran-shocked-by-boris-johnsons-comments-her-husband-says

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/27/boris-johnson-accused-of-dismal-failure-to-free-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe

 

 

 

 

 

 

[L00b]

Luxembourg also sent its A400m, and is due to load and bring back 100+ Afghans, on top of the Luxembourgish and Belgian nationals it went for.

[The Joker]

20 minutes ago, L00b said:

Luxembourg also sent its A400m, and is due to load and bring back 100+ Afghans, on top of the Luxembourgish and Belgian nationals it went for.

Yes, we get the picture.  Can you please leave the gloating to the Brexit thread.  Thanks.

 

PS - In other news, Luxembourg's population doubles overnight. 😁

Edited August 23, 2021 by The Joker

[L00b]

25 minutes ago, The Joker said:

Yes, we get the picture.  Can you please leave the gloating to the Brexit thread.  Thanks.

 

PS - In other news, Luxembourg's population doubles overnight. 😁

There’s no gloating here (…or in Brexit thread), just information contributed to a newsworthy topic.

 

Luxembourg’s population ‘doubles’ every morning and ‘halves’ every night, through 200k crossborder workers. Nothing new about the fact, it’s older than the EU itself 😉

[trastrick]

Western nations should not be naive about 20,000 mostly Sunni Afghan refugees, and assume they are all fleeing the Taliban.

 

Recent headlines such as:

 

"U.S. Warns of Islamic State Threat to Americans in Afghanistan" - Wall Street Journal

and:

 

"US most wanted Al Qaeda terrorist Khalil Haqqani reappears in Kabul alongside Taliban with $5million bounty on head "- U.S. Sun

 

shows that militant islamists are still a potent threat for terrorism.

 

With the Taliban in control of access to the airport, it is not inconceivable they may include a few "fellow traveler" militants, amongst the numbers who are allowed to leave.

 

Even with the most careful vetting, it is hard to look into the heart and mind of an individual.

 

And especially with the Western World's outpouring of grief and sympathy, it is unlikely they will be detained on arrival, and subject to more than a cursory check.

 

We have to be sure, we are not saying in a couple years, "how could this have happened?"

[Baron99]

1 hour ago, trastrick said:

Western nations should not be naive about 20,000 mostly Sunni Afghan refugees, and assume they are all fleeing the Taliban.

 

Recent headlines such as:

 

"U.S. Warns of Islamic State Threat to Americans in Afghanistan" - Wall Street Journal

and:

 

"US most wanted Al Qaeda terrorist Khalil Haqqani reappears in Kabul alongside Taliban with $5million bounty on head "- U.S. Sun

 

shows that militant islamists are still a potent threat for terrorism.

 

With the Taliban in control of access to the airport, it is not inconceivable they may include a few "fellow traveler" militants, amongst the numbers who are allowed to leave.

 

Even with the most careful vetting, it is hard to look into the heart and mind of an individual.

 

And especially with the Western World's outpouring of grief and sympathy, it is unlikely they will be detained on arrival, and subject to more than a cursory check.

 

We have to be sure, we are not saying in a couple years, "how could this have happened?"

James Heappey MP. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the Armed Forces) was on the tv this morning, explaining that all those, (exceptions being UK nationals), heading for the UK are being stringently vetted before being allowed on any flights. 

 

Already they have stopped a number of individuals & turned them away, who have shown up on 'no fly' lists. 

Edited August 23, 2021 by Baron99

[spilldig]

On 23/08/2021 at 09:57, altus said:

Indeed it has. By me. Multiple times. Stop putting up straw men to distract from what I actually wrote. You don't need to exaggerate the proportion of people who voted leave. You won. We've left. Get over it.

 

The loss of trade and increased costs of trading with the EU far exceed what we were paying for EU membership. Hardly a benefit.

I suppose I will try yet again. More people voted to leave than to remain otherwise we would not have left.

[Longcol]

8 hours ago, spilldig said:

I suppose I will try yet again. More people voted to leave than to remain otherwise we would not have left.

That is what altus is saying in the post you quoted.

[altus]

13 minutes ago, Longcol said:

That is what altus is saying in the post you quoted.

spilldig just can't admit that they exaggerated the proportion of the population who voted to leave. However many times I post that we left the EU because more voted leave than remain they'll still try and pretend I didn't rather than admit that they exaggerated.

[spilldig]

10 hours ago, Longcol said:

That is what altus is saying in the post you quoted.

I'm glad we agree at last