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March 20, 2007

UK: Muslim Terrorists Get Passports Via Fraud

News from the BBC, Bloomberg and Reuters:

If anyone thinks that Britain is a useful ally of America in its war against terror - think again. Under the visa waiver program, anyone with a UK passport can get on a plane to the US and enter the country without undergoing stringent checks into their criminal history. There is no need for UK passport-holders to apply for a visa, despite the fact that Britain has more extremist Muslims than any other Western country.

Last year, 10,000 passports were issued to people in the 12 months leading up to September 2006, which were issued to people who declared false information. The system is so poorly managed that two known terrorists have also managed to be issued with passports.

Minister at the Home Office Joan Ryan admitted that 16,500 fraudulent passport applications had been made to the Identity and Passport Service during this period, and 10,000 of these were not detected. The two terrorists were issued with their passports before this date.

As a result of such sloppy regulation, beginning in May, the IPS will be introducing face-to-face interviews for passport applicants. Annually 6.6 million passport requests are made (more than 10% of the entire population of Britain).

The government, known to underestimate poor figures has said that, by its own estimation, there are at least 570,000 people living in Britain illegally. This figure is 1% of the total national population. This is not the way for any country to fight terrorism, seemingly not bothered enough to remove its illegal immigrants.

One of these terrorists is Dhiren Barot (pictured), who was given a life sentence of a minimum of 40 years on November 7, 2006. Barot, who had been a terrorist in Kashmir in the 1990s, had planned attacks upon targets in the US and Britain. He had been issued with a total of seven British passports using his real identity, and two passports which were gained using bogus names.

The other convicted terrorist was Salaheddine Benyaich (alias Abou Mouhgen), who is currently serving an 18 year sentence in Morocco for his involvement with the multiple bombings of Casablanca, which took place on May 16, 2003. 45 people died, including 12 suicide bombers. Benyaich has links to Al Qaeda. He was a membeer of the Moroccan Islamic Combattant Group (GICM).

Benyaich had two British passports which he had claimed using the identity of a Brighton-born British citizen.

David Davis, the Conservative party spokesman on home affairs, said: "It is outrageous that this government managed to issue multiple genuine passports to convicted terrorists under false pretenses... This is a shocking admission which betrays chaos at the heart of the passport system. It also further undermines the government's case for their expensive ID card system."

In February, the government admitted that more than 1,000 passports were "going missing" in the post each year.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 20, 2007 12:47 PM

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