Al Qaeda/Hamas phony passport ring arrested in Columbia

Reuters via MSNBC:

Colombia arrested 19 members of a passport-forging ring with links to Islamic militant groups Hamas and al-Qaida that enabled foreign nationals to travel in the United States and Europe under false documents, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.

“Some of the suspects are wanted for extradition by the United States for collaborating with terrorist groups Hamas and al-Qaida," Deputy Attorney General Alberto Otalora told reporters.

Three members of Colombia’s Administrative Security Department, or DAS, the state intelligence agency, were arrested in the sweep. An employee of Colombia’s National Registry, which provides official identification documents, was also among those arrested.

“This network since 2002 has been dedicated to falsifying documents in order to permit foreign citizens to travel as Colombians through Europe and the United States,” a statement issued by the Attorney General’s Office said.

...

Way to go Columbia.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare