ISIS Has Whole Fake Passport Industry
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
January 28, 2016 8:16am CST
I was reading about this and thought don't they have some kind of reference number on passport?.
How can they be fake if they have a reference number on them and don't they have to be stamped somehow.
The site I am at says they are official Syrian passports that ISIS obtained thousands of legitimate blank Syrian passports.
They also have the the Passport printing machine they have been using for over a year.
The U.S. is moving toward developing passports with chips that have biometric data that cannot be faked.
I think this tells us that we've got to accelerate doing that. But in the world of threats, of course, this is the one of them, but there are lots of other things we have to attend to as well.
I would think that someone in the intelligence community would have known about this before now.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
28 Jan 16
A biometric passport would not be of any help in this case, as they took these Syrian passports and printers in the cities they conquered in Syria. It they had been biometric they would have also the material to create a "true fake" biometric passport... The chip of a biometric passport contains only a photo, the status of the owner, and two fingerprints. A biometric passport can be as fake as another one.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
28 Jan 16
@Marcyaz They are more difficult to reproduce and then more safer, but here these passports are not fake but true Syrian passports. We heard about these "true fake" passports after the terrorist attacks on Paris last November, because a man had one of these passports. The only way to know if a Syrian passport is true or not actually, is to ask to the Syrians if they have delivered it.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
22 Feb 16
Yeah you would think that but....actually no...I don't anymore to be honest. All this crap about our leaders and our governments looking after us and blah blah whatever. It's all fishy.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Feb 16
@VivaLaDani13 Yep I sometimes wonder at the leaders of our government and just how much they are out for themselves and not us, the people they are supposed to be looking out for.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
28 Jan 16
Well we would think that someone in our intelligence community knows about this, but apparently maybe not. This ISIS mess needs to be obliterated soon.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
28 Jan 16
@fishtiger58 You would think the intelligence community would know but I guess not so what does that say for our intelligence community.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jan 16
Glad that the US is getting on the band wagon to make it so they can't fake these things anymore.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
29 Jan 16
@celticeagle About time we are getting caught up on these type of things.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@celticeagle
That is very true I think a lot of the time they drag their feet and end up doing nothing.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jan 16
@Marcyaz ...It's like none of the departments do anything until something horrible happens. Then they get going. Or at least we don't hear about it.
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@hostessman (11871)
• Tucson, Arizona
28 Jan 16
with the technowledge there is today I don't believe anything is save any more
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
28 Jan 16
@hostessman Right you are on that probably nothing is safe anymore.
