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| 17 Chinese Dupe Canadian officials, disappear into country |
| 2005-10-08 |
| The disappearance of 17 cruise ship passengers, who slipped into Canada after duping customs officials, highlights a serious weakness in the country's highly touted ports security program, analysts say. David Harris, a former CSIS strategic planner, warns that the breach in security is alarming enough that Ottawa should consider putting more money into beefing up resources at major marine gateways. "This does seem to be a significant failure," said Harris, of Insignis Strategic Research Inc. in Ottawa. "One of the ways we would be infiltrated by terrorists, or other enemy groups, would be by undocumented entry at ports, so one won't sleep very comfortably knowing that his kind of thing is possible." Seventeen Chinese nationals presented fraudulent Korean passports to officials from the Canada Border Services Agency and managed to leave their cruise ship in Halifax on Sept. 9 by either claiming they were seasick or saying they wanted to temporarily get off. They then boarded a train to Toronto and haven't been heard from since. A spokesperson with the agency said the matter is under investigation and will focus partly on how agents failed to identify more than a dozen phoney documents. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #3 "Canadaneese" sweet and sour is lousey. |
| Posted by: Bug-Getta 2005-10-08 22:12 |
| #2 Not a hell of a lot of "Canadaneese", Eh? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-10-08 22:02 |
| #1 Any focus on finding the illegals, perhaps? I'm just awfully glad the Minutemen are watching our northern border now, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-08 21:42 |