Over 5,000 Saudi passports go missing in last eight months

Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | July 25 2002

[knighthawk]

Some 5,610 Saudi passports have been stolen or lost in the past eight months, most of them inside the kingdom, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

The London-based Asharq Al-Awsat said 710 passports were stolen or lost in Arab countries, mainly Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and also in foreign countries including Britain and the United States.

In Jordan, the stolen Saudi passports are bought by Iraqis who use them to travel to foreign countries to improve their living conditions, the paper said, quoting security sources. In other countries, the passports are normally used in criminal activity.

Saudi nationals and expatriates living in the kingdom have been cautioned to beware of fraudsters who might use their identity documents in "criminal and terrorist acts."

[knighthawk]

Ping

[swarthyguy]

It took us 11 months to shut down the Saudi Visa Express Program. Something that should've been done by September 15 latest. How many Saudis and others have entered the US under that program. No wonder it sometimes seems like we don't have a clue what's going on. Every day, more and more Arabs, in particular, in addition to others are detained with multiple passports and id's.

[Movemout]

Amazing. We shouldn't honor passports of any nation who haven't demonstrated the ability to control these documents. Of course, here in Virginia we had DMV employees faking documents to give terrorists valid Drivers' Licenses. Control of documents is clearly not the answer. Swift retribution is the answer.

[knighthawk]

The site that published this, Al Bawaba, launches a pop-up advertisement last weeks. They advertized visas and greencards to enter the US...

[Highest Authority]

Two phrases I wish I would never hear again: "Gone missing" and "Think outside the box". They seem to appear in almost every sentence uttered in the press and on tv.

[Ranger]

Recall about 2 months ago a government office in Pakistan was robbed of over 2000 blank passports.

[habaes corpussel]

"It took us 11 months to shut down the Saudi Visa Express Program."

We did not shut the program down. State just changed it's name. The program is still active.

[CIBvet]

And I'm sure officials at the various airports around Mexico will remain diligent in searching out fake passports and terrorists intent on bringing fear and destruction to the USA ... unless of course the $$ mordida factor $$ kicks in ...

...just as I'm sure a continued porous and incompetent border policy will work out just fine in the end ... but for WHOM??

Let's just face facts. Our country, our U.S.Constitution and our once Blessed way of life are being sold out by our very own Globalist NWO Leadership.

In their eyes, the bloated U.S. Middle Class must go ... we've had it too damn good, for too damn long.

[swarthyguy]

Remember the story distinctly. I think i posted it here.
Imagine; a real pakistani passport with a fake name; entry into Saudi, using the US VisaExpress program to enter the US. How many have entered the US in the past 11 months?