http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10255887.html
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Isis militants are posing as refugees and being smuggled into Europe across the Mediterranean, it has been reported.
Islamic State fighters are taking advantage of the current migrant crisis in the Mediterranean by joining overfilled boats leaving northern Africa for Europe, according to government advisor Abdul Basit Haroun.
He told BBC 5 live Investigates that he had spoken to boat owners in areas controlled by Isis.
They told him that militants were profiting from the dangerous journey across the sea by demanding half of people smugglers’ incomes in exchange for allowing them to keep operating – and to take fighters with them.
In an interview broadcast on Sunday, Mr Haroun said that the boats were used “for their people who they want to send to Europe, as the European police don't know who is from IS and who is a normal refugee or not.”
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We have no idea who many of these people are, where they come from, what their motives/sympathies are and what sort of risk they may pose to the rest of us. To think that all of them are genuinely fleeing persecution etc. as opposed to simply seeking a better life is naïve but how do we separate them or don't we even try?