[MEG33]

Syria has a reputation for handing out passports to the unsavory who don't want to show their country of origin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

These passports are more or less like Monopoly money...

[Catspaw]

Syria has a reputation for handing out passports to the unsavory who don't want to show their country of origin.

Yup. The Syrians handed out passports pre-war to anyone who asked for them, no questions asked. No surprise that the would-be bomber turned out to be from another country--and Yemen is crawling with al Qaeda.