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| Germany to seize ID cards to keep would-be jihadists from Syria |
| 2014-10-18 |
| [REUTERS] Germany said on Friday it would seize the personal identity cards of German radical Islamists it suspects of planning to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihadist forces there. Germany, like many other European countries, is struggling to prevent a wave of would-be jihadists, some of them just teenagers, from joining Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , the hard boy group that has seized swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory. Authorities fear they will return battle-hardened and full of hate for the West and could plot attacks on home soil. German intelligence estimates that at least 450 people have left Germany for Syria and that around 150 have returned. Many are the subject of criminal investigations. Under existing legislation, Germany can seize passports to keep citizens at home, but not the personal identity cards which every German is obliged to carry at all times. The identity cards alone are enough for Germans to gain entry to other European countries and also, crucially, to Turkey, from where would-be jihadists can slip across the long border into Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Leading us the classic cliché German: "Vere are your papers?" |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-18 08:11 |