Paris Massacres: The Refugee Angle.

Following Friday's (13/11/15) triple suicide bombings at the Stade de France, Paris French authorities discovered a severed thumb.

As none but the attackers were killed in these incidents I found this quite amusing. After all the big joke from Thursday's (12/11/15) in Beirut, Lebanon was that there were actually 3 suicide bombers. The second killed the third by blowing off his *ahem* 'lower abdomen.' This prevented him detonating his bomb denying him his rights in paradise.

Anyway the French authorities ran this thumb through their police database and discovered that it belonged to a French criminal - Ismael Omar Mostefai. Although they were aware that Mostefari had travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) my current understanding is that they were not aware that he had returned to France.

This creates a strong suspicion that he re-entered the country as an irregular migrant. However as a French citizen and a member of ISIL he would not be legally eligible for either "Asylum Seeker"  or "Refugee" status.

Suspicions that Mostefai had re-entered France by irregular means were strengthened by the discovery of an Egyptian and a Syrian passport at the scenes of the various attacks.

My current understanding is that the Egyptian passport has been proved to belong to a wholly innocent Egyptian tourist who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He now joins the ranks of all a the faceless, nameless Muslims who have be killed by ISIL.

The Syrian passport is more troubling because it appears that it was used to seek asylum along the Balkan route. In accordance with the Dublin agreement Greece scanned the passport and finger-printed the individual who presented it. Despite not being a European Union (EU) member Serbia also scanned the passport although they suspect it of being a fake.

This presents a huge problem because currently the biggest issuer of Syrian passports is not Syria - it's Turkey.

Obviously it would be a very big statement to accuse Turkey of forging Syrian passports in order to assist ISIL's recruits journey into Syria.

However Turkey has certainly made clear that the presence of these forged passports make it extremely difficult for them to stop Syrian 'nationals' re-entering ISIL held territory. They though seem to have absolutely no problem denying Syrian passports bearing Kurdish names re-entry to Syria.

Unfortunately I've long since learnt that if I don't take at least one day a week off things start falling off of me. Therefore I am unable to discuss this issue in more detail.

However before our leader's failures get drowned out in the usual round of racist chuntering I suggest you re-read these;

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/operation-featherweight-month-13-week-4_22.html

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/operation-featherweight-month-14-week-2.html

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/operation-featherweight-month-14-week-2_7.html

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/operation-featherweight-month-14-week-4_21.html

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/hungarys-illegal-migration-moves.html

• http://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/operation-featherweight-month-16-week-1_30.html

After all this is not a problem that we did not see coming. Nor is it a problem that we don't know how to solve.

Instead it is a problem we thought that if we ignored it then it would magically disappear in the next news cycle or election campaign.

18:00 on 15/11/15 (UK date).