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...orphan listened as Sa'ad described the life awaiting her: a beautiful home, expensive clothes, parties with pop stars. Why, she'd be joining two other very happy teenage Iraqi girls living with Sa'ad in his harem. Safah knew that she was running out of time. A fake passport with her photo and assumed name had already been forged for her. But even if she escaped, she had no family who would take her in. She was even likely to end up in prison. What...
...potential terrorists. In the 1990s, half a dozen aliens applied for asylum before committing terrorist acts. Among them: Ahmad Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef, who entered the country in 1991 and 1992, respectively, seeking asylum. According to the OIG, Ajaj left the U.S. and returned in 1992 with a phony passport. He was convicted of passport fraud. Yousef completed the required paperwork and was given a date for his asylum hearing. In the meantime, in 1993, the two men helped commit the first World Trade Center attack, for which they were convicted and imprisoned. At the time, Yousef's application...
...visited Lebanon (to club and shop of course!) and remarked that the country “was a sworn enemy of Israel.” He interrogated me for about two hours and then proceeded to call my father in the United States to confirm my identity! Apparently, the passport, the three picture IDs, four credit cards, and the authorization letter from Harvard were not enough...
...hazards for more substantial risks. Last July, while filming a travel documentary in Pakistan shortly after finishing the book, he was arrested and held incommunicado for 16 days in military prisons. His sister, British journalist Saira Shah, flew to Pakistan and managed to free him. "I have a U.K. passport and a Muslim-sounding name," says the author, whose grandfather was Afghan, "and it was right after the London bombings, so they must have found me suspicious. It was horrible. They were torturing and killing people all around me. The Islamic world has gone crazy." That hasn't dimmed...
...humor. Similarly, Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07’s interpretation of “The Gun I Carry is Unlicensed” examines the difficulties that transgender travelers have when deciding which box to check—male or female—for their passport. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...