Posted on 08/01/2005 2:33:36 PM PDT by Dog
LONDON: A bag stuffed with bogus passports, documents and bank cards was found abandoned at London’s Heathrow Airport, a newspaper said yesterday.
The News of the World called the find a ‘potential terrorist goldmine’ and said anti-terrorist officers were urgently probing the discovery.
The bag was spotted by a taxi driver on a verge near London’s main airport on Thursday.
The paper said the fear was that the bag could have been meant to aid further bombers enter and exit the country.
The 19 passports inside were for Pakistani, British, Indian, Nepalese and South African nationals.
The newspaper said pictures of the same men appear on different passports in different names.
Many passports had fake visas in different shades of ink from genuine documents.
The holdall, bearing a tag of a Middle East airline, contained a letter written to a man in Dewsbury, - home to July 7, London suicide bomber Mohamed Sidique Khan.
Other documents were linked to nearby Leeds, where two other July 7, suicide bombers hailed from, and north London, another area involved in anti-terror investigations.
An interior ministry source told the weekly: “The holdall could be quite a significant discovery. Somebody must have really panicked to have thrown away so much potential evidence.” – AFP
Remember the story about the Pakistani arrested at Heathrow right after the bombings. Story disappeared or morphed into someone leaving for Pakistan and then that vanished too.
Good find.
British media should publish those photos as soon as possible.
Or it could be a red herring, I suppose...
19 passports. Something about 9-11 and 19 strikes me as familiar...
Good point.
I thought the same thing...but thought my tin foil hat was screwed on to tight....:-)
Who Knows? But, if this doesn't awaken them to the sea the jihadis swim in.....
I get the feeling all over Europe a lot more is happening than what we hear.
Well, if they've got access to enough of these blank passports that they can afford to throw them away...Houston, we have a problem.
19 is a very interesting number.
Something tells me this bag was supposed to go in the trunk of a taxi that had just finished picking up a passenger from the airport, along with the rest of the baggage, and in the flurry, got left on the roof. Somewhere in the UK there is a terrorist cell with only two words on its mind: "Oh S#!t"
Police had better be checking for prints and all kinds of other info.
Nah, couldn't have been a muslim holding the goods. Had to have been a blue-haired grandma.
Could be. The world's best fake passports used to be for sale at the bar on River 19 in Brussels.
?Operation called off,.....'diversion'... trace ON.....No 'moles' allowed?
check the morgue.....?
'19'.....is a 'number'.......
:-)
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The 19 passports inside were for Pakistani, British, Indian, Nepalese and South African nationals.
Does 19 Passports = a "Stuffed" bag? Or is this more Grandstanding by the Press to scare the Public?
It also had documents and bank cards. Also, we have no idea how big the bag actually is.
And test it for traces of explosives, Ricin and other nasties.
Shall we call up Scotland Yard and ask to see the bag?
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