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Gezien het feit dat betrekkelijk arme landen als Syrie en Jordanie de toestroom van Irakese vluchtelingen niet meer aankunnen, lijkt het me voor de hand liggend dat onze christelijke/socialistische coalitie de grenzen openzet voor deze mensen. Per slot van rekening is Nederland door het sturen van militairen en het steunen van de illegale Amerikaanse bezetting mede schuldig aan de chaos in Irak.

'IRAQ-JORDAN: New rules a ‘death sentence’ for Iraqis
AMMAN, (IRIN) - Iraqis fleeing their country’s sectarian violence are finding it much harder to get into Jordan and Syria, after the authorities in these countries recently began implementing much stricter border controls. Jordan and Syria have been the only of Iraq’s neighbours to open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on the move. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that there are up to 700,000 Iraqi refugees in Jordan and from 500,000 to one million in Syria. Other countries which share borders with Iraq - such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran – have allowed very few Iraqis in. Now, with new entry conditions in place in Jordan and Syria, tens of thousands of refugees are stranded on Iraq’s borders and families are being divided according to their age and the type of passport they hold. “My brothers were told that their passports were forged and were sent back to Baghdad. I do not know what will happen to them. It is no longer safe there because Shia groups attack people on the spot,” said Mohammad Qadiri, who comes from the troubled, mostly Sunni Al Adhamya neighbourhood of Baghdad. He arrived in Amman with his wife and two sons on Wednesday after enduring a painstaking trip on a hazardous desert road. To enter Jordan, Iraqi refugees must be aged over 40 or less than 20, must prove that they have sufficient funds to support themselves while staying in the kingdom and, most importantly, must hold a new ‘G’ generation passport. There are no official figures on the number of Iraqis who have been denied entry to Jordan, but a Jordanian interior ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity said more than half of those who attempted to enter had been denied. Officials at the Karamah border post, 250km east of Amman and where Qadiri crossed through to Jordan, said they did not to recognize his brothers’ passports as the they were from the older ‘S’ series. The ‘S’ generation of passports were issued by the Iraqi authorities upon the collapse of former President Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003. However, they were recently cancelled on the grounds that they could be easily forged. Now, Iraqis wishing to leave their country, or go abroad from Jordan, must have the new ‘G’ series, which, made in Germany, are much harder to forge as they involve the taking of iris scans, thumbprints, and personal signatures. But the new passports are said to be very difficult to get hold of, not least because the Iraqi Ministry of Interior is allegedly controlled by Shia militia.
Bribes for passports...

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