Germany’s Merkel Stands by Refugee Policy Despite ‘Terrifying’ Attacks

CNN
By: Angela Dewan and Jason Hanna.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday described recent attacks in the country and across Europe as “shocking, depressing and terrifying,” but she refused to back down from an open-door refugee policy that has attracted fierce criticism following recent assaults in the country.

Germany has been rattled by four attacks in the past two weeks, three of which authorities say have been carried out by asylum seekers or refugees inspired by Islamist extremism…

The Soufan Group, a New York-based intelligence consulting firm that tracks “foreign fighters” who have joined ISIS, said in a brief Thursday that ISIS-inspired attacks outside Iraq and Syria were “becoming an unprecedented global phenomenon,” even without the returning foreign jihadists…

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