TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: The Syrian Passport Found at the Paris Attacks #Paris #parisattacks

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Syrian Passport Found at the Paris Attacks #Paris #parisattacks

I grabbed this image from the Syrilution Creative Arts.

The picture ridicules the imperishable Syrian passport found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers at the Stade de France. Other similar cartoons raise the question of how a suicide bomber could even think to bring his passport with him. The thinking is that the presence of the passport was deliberate.

A man using the passport had arrived in Greece before travelling on to Serbia, Croatia, then France. The discovery of the Syrian passport fed the fear that ISIL terrorists have infiltrated Europe along with the refugees. The passport has since been discovered to be fake, and another man using a second passport with the same details as the attacker's passport was discovered in Serbia.

(The following paragraph added 11/21/15) The Syrian passport found near the bomber at the Stade de France said it belonged to Ahmad al-Mohammad, 25, and the Greek government confirmed someone by that name came to Greece in October before crossing into Serbia. But there have been concerns it was fake, and the Independent reported French officials said it may have been “planted” by the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the attacks, to take advantage of the refugee crisis.

The damage to Syrian refugees has been done however. Now Syrians have become suspect and are no longer welcome in many places. The Syrian people are, as the saying goes, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. ISIL was/is against the exodus of the Syrian people. I suppose it would mean less man power for them, plus they like to portray their world as a utopia and it goes against their propaganda to have people fleeing from them.

I'm sorry, Syrian people. ISIL stole your people's revolution in 2011 and now they don't want you to escape the hell they've helped create.

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Tags: Paris, Attacks, Syria, Syrian, passport, terrorist, ISIL, Middle East, refugees, #Paris, #ParisAttacks #Syria

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.