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Terrorist Access to Stolen Passports Alarms Interpol |
2005-11-04 |
![]() The council in late July called for greater UN-Interpol cooperation and urged member states to promptly inform Interpol of any passports and travel documents reported lost or stolen. Noble said only 87 countries are participating in an Interpol database on stolen passports, while 100 others remain undecided. Since it was created three years ago when only 12 countries had signed on, he added, the database has gone from 3,000 to more than eight million entries. âUnless all countries share that information globally, the terrorists and organized criminals will be able to move from country to country,â Noble said. âWe know that in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the person who did it, Ramzi Youssef, was in possession of a stolen Iraqi passport,â he said. âWe know that the prime minister of Serbia (Zoran Djindjic) was assassinated (in 2003) by someone carrying a stolen Croatian passport that had been stamped 26 times by six European countries and by Singapore,â Noble said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#3 What about North Korea and Pakistan. These rogue nations actively counterfeit currency and passports. The ink bought in the report below has not been used for Pakistani passports.. apart from the currency counterfeiting, what else is the ISI printing for their terrorist proxies? ISI lures travellers with fake currency "There are various aspects to the problem. For one, intelligence agencies have been unable to pinpoint what Pakistan has done with the 4 kg of "green to blue (colour shift)" Optically Variable Ink a patented product of a Swiss manufacturer ostensibly for a security feature in its passports. This is the same ink India uses for currency notes of the Rs 500 denomination. One kg of ink can produce 32 lakh notes. Intelligence agencies have informed the government that militants are offered a choice between being paid Rs 5,000 in Pakistani rupees or Rs 1 lakh worth of counterfeit money." |
Posted by: john 2005-11-04 11:23 |
#2 i duntno |
Posted by: Internet Gizzard 2005-11-04 07:46 |
#1 Simple enough. Impose exorbitant "landing fees" at all airports within countries that do not participate in lost document reporting. This one is a no-brainer. A very small incremental increase in world-wide landing fees could easily finance a global standard for holographic tagging of biometrically encoded passport documentation. Simply use steganography to mutually embed photographic and biometric information into a single pixelated bit-field, like what stamps.com uses. You Internet wizards out there tell me if I'm wrong. |
Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-04 04:07 |