Friday, August 28

Nevermind the Emails...

I'd like to see Mrs. Clinton answer questions about this, and her role in helping to destabilize Libya.

BERLIN — The death toll from Europe’s refugee crisis surged higher Friday after Austrian authorities raised the count of bodies found in an abandoned truck to more than 70 — including four children — even as corpses were being plucked from the sea off the coast of Libya after two boats capsized, drowning as many as 200 people.

After an extraordinarily deadly 24-hour period, two crime scenes, more than 2,000 miles apart, were unfolding Friday.
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In the Libyan city of Zuwara, meanwhile, officials were loading scores of bodies into orange bags and onto the back of a pickup truck, according to an Associated Press photographer on the scene.

Authorities said one boat had been carrying as many as 400 people, about half of them apparently locked in the ship’s hold when it capsized, Reuters reported. Libya is one of the primary launching points for desperate migrants attempting to reach Europe.

Another boat that capsized was carrying about 100 migrants, officials said.

“An estimated 200 people are still missing and feared dead,” said Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. “A still undetermined number of bodies were recovered and taken to shore. The Libyan Red Crescent has been helping with the collection of the bodies.”

The International Organization for Migration said about 100 people were rescued, including nine women and two girls.

In a separate incident Wednesday, rescuers found 51 people dead from suffocation in the hold of another boat off the Libyan coast.

“According to survivors, smugglers were charging people money for allowing them to come out of the hold in order to breathe,” Fleming told a news conference in Geneva.

The grisly tableaus on land and sea once again ratcheted up the pressure on European authorities and their slow-footed handling of the largest wave of refugees pouring into the region since World War II — mostly from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries. Top European officials were huddling in the Austrian capital, partly to discuss the record number of migrants arriving from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
If we started the war(s),
isn't a lot of this on US?

(We broke it. We bought it?
or we're denying now it was broken by US?)