On 6/19/18 11:05 AM, BurfordTJustice wrote:
Almost 1,000 People Injured, Killed in Terrorist Attacks By Refugees

Nearly 1,000 people were injured or killed in terrorist attacks involving
refugees over a four-year span, with Germany facing the highest number of
terror plots, according to a new Heritage Foundation report published
Monday.

Data collected from the 194 terrorist plots detected across Europe between
January 2014 and December 2017 point to a more than one-in-three chance that
Germany will be the country targeted in future terror schemes, with
civilians being the primary bullseye.

Though only 32, or 16 percent, of those terrorist plots involved refugees or
asylum seekers, 41 percent of all plots occurred in Germany. France was the
second most targeted country, with Belgium and the United Kingdom trailing
closely behind.

The report comes as German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces the threat of her
government collapsing over its open-door policy toward migrants, which
critics say has left the country more vulnerable to terrorism. Germany is
still struggling to absorb the 1.4 million asylum seekers who arrived three
years ago primarily from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

"It's not as if the Islamist terrorism threat appeared with the Germany
refugee flow, of course there were plots there in the past, but the scale
has transformed entirely since [Merkel's] decision to open the borders,"
said Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security analyst at the Heritage
Foundation who authored the study.

"The amount of plots that Germany faced after the 2015 refugee flow just
increased exponentially, and when you look at the perpetrators behind those
plots it's more often than not they're recent arrivals into the country and
there's very often a Syria component to it."

The report found that of the 15 Syrian jihadists who plotted attacks over
the past four years, 12 were involved in operations targeting Germany.

Simcox said Europe must take immediate steps to more quickly deport migrants
who have been denied asylum, particularly given that nearly three-quarters
of attackers were asylum seekers who either either committed an attack or
had it thwarted within two years of arrival.

This issue became clear in Germany in December 2016 after police missed
multiple opportunities to arrest Anis Amri before he drove a truck through a
Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people. The Tunisian national, who
pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was awaiting deportation when he
carried out the attack. Amri remained in Germany because he did not have a
valid passport.

"Ultimately, the general public in Europe is very concerned about this
issue. Proof of that is pretty obvious in elections that have taken place in
recent years-in Austria, Germany, Italy-where immigration has proven to be
such an important topic," Simcox said. "I don't see how the mainstream
politicians in Europe can really begin to earn the trust of the voters whose
trust they've lost in recent years. They got this badly wrong; they
misjudged this entirely, the scale of the problem and their ability to cope
with it, as well as its impact on national security."


In the US more people were killed by white supremists/nationalists than
by terrorists

of course they should also be considered terrorists