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Terror Networks
ISIS might have Passport-Printing Machines
2015-12-13
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] American intelligence has issued warning of another serious threat posing from the terrorist group of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

An intelligence report obtained by ABC News states that the terror group's followers may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports ISIS has printed itself with its own machines.

According ABC News, the 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report which was issued to the law enforcement last week says that ISIS likely has been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since taking over the cities of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour, where blank passports and passport-printing machines were available.

"Since more than 17 months [have] passed since Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour fell to ISIS, it is possible that individuals from Syria with passports 'issued' in these ISIS controlled cities or who had passport blanks, may have traveled to the U.S.," the report states, according to ABC News.

ABC News has cited FBI Director James Comey as saying that the intelligence community is very concerned over the issue.

Posted by:Fred

#5  By top men. Top men.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-12-13 09:55  

#4  Not to worry - we've been assured multiple times that "rigorous checks" are in place, right?
Posted by: Pappy   2015-12-13 09:11  

#3  So, they're like the Fed and Treasury, printing stuff without any backing. You accept the paper, right?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-12-13 08:56  

#2  Many don't use passports who come across a porous southern border.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-13 08:53  

#1  may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports
Easier to move across borders on other continents.
Here they just need a student(or fiance) visa for entry.
Posted by: Sloluth Protector of the Weak7539   2015-12-13 02:15  

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