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Fake passports found at airport(Heathrow)
Gulf Times ^ | Aug 1 2005 | NA
Posted on 08/01/2005 4:33:36 PM CDT 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
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LOL - with the photo already on the fakes.....LOL
A few years ago, there was a big Stamp Show, in the east, one of the dealers lost a bag with a million dollars worth of stamps.
The taxi driver was loading them and left it sitting on the curb.
I have read of the same happening with diamonds.
Of course, it could be that the future user was hiding behind a post and someone grabbed the bag, before he could.
Ahh the possible stories to be written for this one.
LOL