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| Africa Subsaharan |
| SAfrica officials suspended in citizenship scam |
| 2009-12-10 |
| South Africa has suspended dozens of immigration officials being investigated for giving South African citizenship to foreigners, mainly from Pakistan, the government said Thursday. The move comes months after Britain started requiring visas from South Africans, charging terrorists and criminals were exploiting the availability of stolen or forged South African passports to gain access to other countries. In February, Britain said it was requiring visas for South Africans, who previously did not need them. British security and intelligence officials warned of an increasing risk of Islamic extremists using South Africa as a transit point and venue to plan plots. They said future attacks on Britain could be directed from countries other than Pakistan — where dozens of Britons with family ties have traveled for terrorist training or have been linked to recent terror plots. Prosecutors in the London trial of several men accused of plotting to blow up at least seven trans-Atlantic commercial flights said last year that one suspect had flown into Britain from South Africa to lead the final stages of the plan. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Going back to about 1973, when these guys were asking for guns and white chicks. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-12-10 18:08 |
| #3 In other news, Mafiking is relieved. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-10 13:55 |
| #2 These officials, they wouldn't be ANC, perchance? |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-12-10 13:31 |
| #1 The move comes months after Britain started requiring visas from South Africans, charging terrorists and criminals were exploiting the availability of stolen or forged South African passports to gain access to other countries. With our own US 'home grown' mooslim jihadi sleeper agents appearing worldwide, it won't be long until USCITS will have to have visas as well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-10 10:26 |