Fake passports found at Heathrow
LONDON: A bag stuffed with bogus passports, documents and bank cards was found abandoned at Londonâs Heathrow Airport, a newspaper said yesterday. The News of the World called the find a âpotential terrorist goldmineâ and said anti-terrorist officers were urgently probing the discovery. The bag was spotted by a taxi driver on a verge near Londonâs main airport on Thursday. The paper said the fear was that the bag could have been meant to aid further bombers enter and exit the country.
The 19 passports inside were for Pakistani, British, Indian, Nepalese and South African nationals. The newspaper said pictures of the same men appear on different passports in different names. Many passports had fake visas in different shades of ink from genuine documents. The holdall, bearing a tag of a Middle East airline, contained a letter written to a man in Dewsbury, - home to July 7, London suicide bomber Mohamed Sidique Khan. Other documents were linked to nearby Leeds, where two other July 7, suicide bombers hailed from, and north London, another area involved in anti-terror investigations. An interior ministry source told the weekly: âThe holdall could be quite a significant discovery. Somebody must have really panicked to have thrown away so much potential evidence.â My guess, somebody was leaving town in a hurry. Grabbed the bag of phoney documents, took what he/she needed and dumped the rest to avoid them being found during a baggage search. |
Posted by: Steve 2005-08-01 |