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Angela Merkel backs plan for a 'safe zone' for migrants in northern Syria which could be enforced by German troops
2019-10-23
[MAIL] German chancellor Angela Merkel has thrown her support behind her defence minister's controversial plan for a 'safe zone' in northern Syria enforced by Western troops - possibly even German ones.

Merkel told conservative MPs that the idea was 'very promising, even if there are many questions', sources in the parliamentary party said.

The chancellor's decision to welcome a million Syrian migrants in 2015 has tarnished her political standing at home, but the idea of a 'safe zone' has previously been mooted to reduce the outflow of refugees from the war-torn country.

But Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's plan has already met with resistance from Merkel's coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD).

One SPD member, Heiko Maas, told reporters the idea had provoked a 'certain degree of irritation' among NATO allies.

It is the first time Berlin has proposed a military mission in the Middle East.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#10  #8 - And I'll be on the sidelines shouting "baby killing warmonger" the whole time. It's going to be glorious. Payback is a bitch.
Posted by Herb McCoy

Ima leting that spittle stay so everyone knows what a hateful twat you are (that don't know already)
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-23 20:12  

#9  If Russia rejects, let Russian troops secure the dirt and sand.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-10-23 18:15  

#8  Outstanding.

Let those ungrateful, freeloading assholes find out the real costs of meddling in the Middle East. Pay, pay, pay. Shed the blood of your own people.

And I'll be on the sidelines shouting "baby killing warmonger" the whole time. It's going to be glorious. Payback is a bitch.
Posted by: Herb McCoy    2019-10-23 18:01  

#7  former poster True German Ally

I believe True German Ally died some years ago, Bobby. Recall, he survived both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulags, and was a friend of the future Pope Benedict XVI.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-10-23 13:14  

#6  😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-23 13:13  

#5  реваншист!!
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-23 13:12  

#4  Russia rejects German vision for security zone in northern Syria - RIA
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-23 13:04  

#3  I believe I first saw the concept of a safe zone inside the third-world poop-pit at Rantburg. Maybe former poster True German Ally is still working for Angela?
Posted by: Bobby   2019-10-23 09:59  

#2  It is the first time Berlin has proposed a military mission in the Middle East.

Since the doomed Fliegerführer Irak.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-23 02:53  

#1  "Civilians guarded by German soldiers"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-23 02:08  

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