Missing Passport Databases Not Routinely Checked: Interpol

Article author: 
Elisha Fieldstadt and Becky Bratu
Article publisher: 
NBC News
Article date: 
9 March 2014
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

Apart from the potential staggering loss of life — 239 souls that are still officially listed as missing — one of the most alarming pieces of information to come out of the Malaysian plane mystery is how easy it may be to use a stolen passport to board an international flight ...

Investigations into the operations of terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda showed that operatives traveled with falsified travel documents.

Ramzi Yousef, convicted of carrying out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, and Milorad Ulemek, convicted of the 2003 assassination of Serbia’s former prime minister both accomplished their plans after traveling with stolen passports ...


CAIRCO Research

 
[...] For example, Milorad Ulemek, believed to have ordered the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindic of Serbia in March 2003, traveled in the previous two years using a stolen passport that border control officers in six countries stamped 26 times, including 6 times in Switzerland and 14 times in Greece ...
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The Open Door - How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001
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Immigration and Terrorism - Testimony prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information