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More than rumours. The most compelling evidence is similar to the initial evidence for presence in the Ukraine: social media postings by soldiers. According to Spiegel, there is a plan.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 8th, 2015 at 04:51:35 PM EST
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I'm informed, on Twitter, by a Siberian late of this parish, that most of the refugees aren't Syrian at all, with the subtext that this is all building a pretext to attack Assad. He had this information from the TV news, and it reads to me as an attempt to minimise the effects of the Syrian conflict.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 9th, 2015 at 06:47:04 AM EST
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One effect of the special treatment of Syrian refugees was a black market for stolen or fake Syrian documents, and another that some non-Syrian refugees throw their papers away to claim being Syrians without papers. This was used by the official and non-official xenophobes not just in Hungary to put the refugees under general suspicion of being fake Syrians. Maybe that's what led to the TV news referenced by the Twitter post you saw.

A similar line of "reasoning" (one also echoed by the bishop of the border region in Hungary in his negative reaction to the Pope) claims that refugees cease to be refugees and become economic migrants when they leave Turkey.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Sep 10th, 2015 at 06:40:55 AM EST
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