SYRIAN REFUGEES IN ROMANIA- HOSPITALITY VERSUS NATIONAL (IN) SECURITY

A SHADOW WAR APPEARS TO BE TAKING PLACE IN SYRIA, WITH AL-QAIDA-ALIGNED GROUPS (OR NOT SO MUCH ALIGNED!) PLAYING AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FORCES LOYAL TO BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S REGIME. SYRIAN REBELS WOULD BE POORLY ORGANIZED IF THEY WOULD NOT BE SUPPORTED BY AL -QAIDA OR BY THE INFLUX OF JIHADISTS WHICH ENFORCE DISCIPLINE AMONGST REBELS BY RELIGIOUS FERVOR AND BY THE COMBAT EXPERIENCE THEY HAVE ACQUIRED IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, LIBYA AND EGYPT. WESTERN COUNTRIES COULD BE FACED WITH A DANGEROUS SITUATION WHEN THOSE WHO SURVIVE THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA COME IN WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH A JIHADIST EXPERIENCE. IN THIS RESPECT, EUROPEAN STATES MUST DEVELOP A VIABLE STRATEGY ON IMMIGRATION CONTROL, MAINLY FOR ITS MEMBERS STATES WHICH HAVE A MUSLIM POPULATION IN THEIR MIDST. ROMANIA, AS OTHER EUROPEAN STATES, HAS A MUSLIM COMMUNITY COMING FROM SYRIA AND FROM ITS NEIGHBORING STATES. UNFORTUNATELY, SOME OF THESE MUSLIMS ARE KNOWN AS BEING SYMPATHIZERS OF AL -QAIDA-ALIGNED GROUPS ACTING IN SYRIA, WHO CONTINUE TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES ON THEIR BEHALF AFTER THEIR MOVE TO ROMA NIA. FOR INSTANCE, IN DECEMBER 2013, AN AL-QAIDA SITE ANNOUNCED THE DEATH OF ABU MOHAMMAD AL RUMANI (FROM ROMANIA) ON THE BATTLEFIELD IN SYRIA.

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