Category: Europe

Incredible News! The British have Somali terrorists returning to the UK

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It’s been happening in Great Britain too!  Somalis, former asylees, have gone to Somalia for terrorist training and British intelligence thinks they are now returning to the UK.  Regular readers of RRW know that we have been on the story of American Somalis leaving for Africa since the story first broke in the media in November (here).  The great fear among our intelligence people is that they will in fact return to the US with their newfound skills.

Britain also has its first suicide bomber as do we, both thought to be members of al Shabab (we are coming to get you).   Hat tip to an annonymous commenter.

From the Times today:

Dozens of Islamic extremists have returned to Britain from terror training camps in Somalia, the British security services believe.

Intelligence analysts are worried that they may attempt to launch attacks in this country or use the kudos from having trained and fought in Somalia to try to attract new recruits. The issue was raised by Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, in his first interview last month.

In the US, the outgoing head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, has said that Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia in late 2006 “catalysed” expatriate Somalis around the world.

An investigation for Channel 4 News, to be broadcast tonight, also reveals that a suicide bomber who grew up in Ealing is thought to have blown himself up in an attack in Somalia that killed more than 20 soldiers.

Tiny UK has 250,000 Somalis!  I don’t know exactly what our Somali population is but the State Department resettled 80,000 over 25 years, so factor in huge families and our numbers must be greater.

The incident (suicide bombing) is the first reported case involving a Somali based in Britain and will add to pressure on Scotland Yard and the Home Office to tackle the problem within the Somali community, which, at about 250,000 people, is the biggest in Europe.

They don’t know exactly how many are leaving 50, 60, 70?   At one point we had a report that 40 have left the US, but now our intelligence people are saying 20, but in reality, they don’t know.

Peter Neumann, a terrorism expert who runs the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, told Channel 4 News: “The numbers I hear [going from Britain to Somalia] are 50, 60 or 70, but in reality we don’t know. You don’t need big numbers for terrorism. Somalia will never become another Pakistan, but that does not mean it is not a threat.”

Most Somalis in Britain entered the country as asylum-seekers within the past 20 years. They include Yasin Omar and Ramzi Mohammed, two of the four men convicted of the botched bombing of the London Underground on July 21, 2005.

Read the rest of the article and learn more about Britain’s first homegrown Somali suicide bomber.

A glimpse into our future if we don’t get immigration under control

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Jesse Petrillo, head of the United American Committee, recently traveled to Europe to see for himself what uncontrolled immigration is doing to the Continent.  It is a fascinating story which ends with Geert Wilders, the embattled Dutch member of Parliment, sending a message to America:

Our final day in the Netherlands MP Wilders gave us a message to take back to America, “Stand up, stand up before it is too late.”

Read it all at Frontpage magazine, here.

Finland planning to deport Somali criminal pair

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When I saw this story I laughed.   I laughed because I couldn’t imagine the US deporting some Muslim immigrant back to Somalia who had been here for 15 years (since he was a child), heck we are bringing American terrorist body parts back for burial when they blow themselves up in Somalia.    And, I laughed because this guy is now begging to stay in good old Finland where he has lived on welfare and stolen booty.

A repentant young man sits in Jokela Prison. Unrest in Somalia drove Said out of his country at the age of ten, but now, after spending 15 years in Finland, he faces deportation to Africa.

“I regret what I did. I would like to have another chance in Finland”, the 26-year-old man says in a prison interview with Helsingin Sanomat.

Officials feel that the interests of Finnish society override the personal interests of Said. Before Christmas, the Supreme Administrative Court kept in force a court ruling ordering his deportation and that of another Somali man.

Said has been convicted of a number of crimes of violence and theft. Some of the crimes have been serious. He has been given two prison sentences of over two years.

Said has not integrated into Finland.  [Indeed!]

Read the rest of the story, it’s amusing.

Don’t you just love this line!

Officials feel that the interests of Finnish society override the personal interests of Said.

Some EU countries might take Gitmo prisoners because they don’t want to lose face with Obama

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Oh boy!  And, I thought the only motivation for European countries to give asylum to Gitmo detainees was because they had some sense of honor—you know they had been yapping to Bush about closing it and now maybe felt some duty to take some terrorists off our hands.

However, here is an article in the Washington Post suggesting there is another motive—although they didn’t want to help Bush, they want Obama to succeed (too big to fail?) and they want him to like them.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, warned his counterparts in Brussels on Monday that they risked losing face with Obama — who is vastly more popular in Europe than Bush — if they didn’t help out.

No churlishness either:

But even lawmakers in those countries said they should try to find other ways to help, given Europe’s loud opposition to the existence of Guantanamo. “We should not be in the least bit churlish, or just let the Americans stew in their own juice,” said Andrew Tyrie, a member of the British Parliament from the Conservative Party. “We’ve got to help Obama and not get on our high horse and sound very pompous.”

Nevermind that they didn’t want to help Bush or that their own people might not want Gitmo former prisoners turned lose in their countries, it is all about being popular with Obama!

By the way, when you go to the Washington Post link, check out the photo of the two Europeans discussing the issue.  I looked at that photo and thought I hope to God we don’t have to save Europe again.

Spain sends us a jaw-dropping message, but will we listen

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Or is it already too late?

How many times in recent years have we heard that Europe is so far ahead of us, so multicultural, so sophisticated, so you know—advanced!   Even Barack Hussein Obama while running for President made his pilgrimage to the great region of diversity and enlightenment sending a message back home that we knuckle-draggers needed to follow Europe’s lead.  

Now, besides Judy’s news this morning that immigrants in France will be DNA tested we have news from Spain which I found appalling, shocking, depresssing.   Will we follow Europe’s lead now?

From the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago, as the economy crumbles, Spaniards are now doing the work immigrants used to do:

MANCHA REAL, Spain — Spain’s unemployment rate rose to 13.9% in December — an eight-year record and by far the highest rate in the European Union. In this southern village, that means olive grower José Morillo is hiring locals and turning away foreigners who worked for him during the country’s economic boom.

Half of Mr. Morillo’s pickers used to be immigrants, as Spaniards shunned the low-paying work. This year, all but one of his 11 workers is Spanish — and the nearby town is teeming with unemployed immigrants who sleep outdoors or in church shelters.

It is so bad the Spanish government is paying immigrants to leave!

Government efforts to free up more jobs for Spaniards are having a limited effect. Billboard-size ads in subway stations and on city buses pitch payments for legal immigrants who go home: If they agree to leave Spain for at least three years, the government will pay the unemployment benefit they’re entitled to in a lump sum — 40% on leaving and 60% on arrival back home.

The average payment runs about $14,000. In the program’s first two months last year, just 1,400 immigrants took up the offer.

Spain got in the same problem we did—easy credit fueling over-zealous construction.

A building frenzy helped Spain generate more jobs than any other country in the euro zone this decade. More than five million immigrants arrived, and the registered population, which had been stable till 2000, jumped 15% by 2008.

Last year, the cheap credit that fueled Spain’s boom dried up. The economy likely entered recession in the second half of 2008, and the European Commission expects it to shrink 2% this year. Data out Friday show the number of Spanish out-of-work job seekers rose by 609,100 in the fourth quarter, bringing the total number to 3.2 million. The unemployment rate was nearly twice the euro zone’s November average of 7.8%

Thank God for the defeat of the Kennedy-McCain Amnesty bill in 2007!   Thank God for knuckle-draggers, rednecks and assorted bitter clingers!    Spain granted its illegal aliens amnesty and now they are sleeping on the streets!

During Spain’s flush times, immigrants were welcome to come and work. In 2005, the government granted amnesty to more than half a million people living in Spain illegally. Today, they are seen as a growing social problem.

I wonder if the Wall Street Journal editorial staff, that had pushed Amnesty here in the US,  took note of this message from Spain.

As time goes on, I think we too will see that there are many jobs Americans are happy to do, just as advanced Spain (Europe!) has belatedly discovered.