Word: passports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Officials suggest al Muhajir had approached Abu Zubaydah and other senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan last December and suggested a dirty bomb attack in the U.S. They liked the fact that al Muhajir had a U.S. passport, and trained him in wiring explosives, while he did research on the Internet into radiological dispersion. From the little reported, the impression is not of a star al-Qaeda engineer but rather of an eager volunteer with easy access to the U.S. Both the al Muhajir instance and the case of shoe-bomber Richard Reid suggest that some of the volunteers...
...Muhajir was reportedly tracked following an arrest in Pakistan in April on a passport violation. The FBI and CIA (working together, please note) had followed him through Europe and onto a Chicago-bound plane from Zurich. (U.S. officials made sure airport security carefully check his belongings, particularly his shoes.) They arrested him immediately on landing in Chicago, hoping he would cooperate. (He hasn't, according to reports.) The decision to nab him early rather than monitor his movements in the hope of revealing a hidden network already operating in the U.S. also raises important questions. For one thing, it means...
...Afghan commander laughed at the way the Americans were going about their work. U.S. troops, he said, were obsessed with finding caches of Taliban documents to help track down their fugitive enemies. The commander's friend explained the mirth by pulling out his own identification card: a small passport-like book made by the Taliban and authorized with a Taliban stamp. It was issued April 16, long after the fall of that regime. It's a legitimate document, and the man isn't an enemy?the local government doesn't have money for stationery, so decrees and papers are still...
...Reid?s British passport reveals, consistent with Reid?s own post-arrest statements, that starting on July 12, 2001, he traveled from Belgium to Israel, to Egypt, to Turkey, and finally to Pakistan, before leaving that country for an unknown destination on August 14, 2001. His passport also indicates a second trip to Pakistan on November 20, 2001, with an exit from that country on December 5, 2001. Airline records disclose that he flew from Karachi to Belgium. On December 18, 2001, Reid purchased a round trip airline ticket on Flight 63 with the cash equivalent...
...computer, for which he served two months in prison. He lived undisturbed under his given names of Paul Francis until last month, when the U.K.'s Sun tabloid discovered his idyll in a country it dubbed a "pervert's paradise." Within days, Cambodian authorities questioned Glitter, confiscated his passport, and then requested that the singer leave the country or be deported...