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A videotape has been broadcast which purports to show before-and-after footage of a wedding which Iraqis say the US attacked, killing about 40. The film, broadcast by Associated Press Television News, knits together a home movie of a wedding and APTN video of the aftermath of Wednesday's attack. Some victims and survivors of the air strike appear to be present in the footage of the wedding celebrations. The US has insisted its target was not a wedding but foreign fighters. It says that its soldiers were responding to fire and there was no evidence of a wedding. The incident occurred...

CARACAS - Julián runs a small office supply shop in downtown Caracas, but his main income comes from the dilapidated government immigration offices nearby. Julián readily admits that he moonlights as a purveyor of fraudulent Venezuelan passports and national identity cards, and an expediter of real ones. And he gladly ticks off the prices he offers, usually to illegal immigrants: about $260 for a fake passport and $80 for a fake national identity card known as a cedula. It's a lot more for real ones, depending on how fast his clients want them. In the post-Sept. 11 era, Venezuela's trade...

He was an illegal immigrant masquerading under suspect's name Jose Guadalupe Martinez came to America from Mexico eight years ago to make a living. To that end, he bought stolen identification papers and changed his identity to Jose Zuniga, U.S. citizen. In late December, he decided not to be Jose Zuniga any more, even though it meant going back to Mexico. Consider the alternative. Jose Miguel Zuniga of Corpus Christi, whose Social Security card and identification Martinez used all those years, is a wanted man. He is indicted, in absentia, in the Sept. 6, 2003, prison gang-related slaying of Daniel...

Youths investigated in fake ID scam By KAREN JEFFREY STAFF WRITER HYANNIS - A 15-year-old boy and his 11-year-old brother, picked up last week on the Cape, are now under federal scrutiny for their roles in an operation that allegedly created and sold phony identification papers and work cards to Brazilian immigrants. The two were taken into custody last Wednesday when Barnstable police closed in on a Hyannis apartment where phony and forged documents were allegedly sold. The boys and their mother, all of whom live in Worcester, are being investigated by federal authorities because the state does not...

<p>It began as a tip: Bureau of Motor Vehicles employees were on the take.</p> <p>It turned not on investigative technique, but a bit of luck.</p> <p>The woman who would become investigators' chief suspect -- Elizabeth Lang -- just happened to walk into the Speedway license branch that police had under surveillance.</p>

<p>PHOENIX - Men selling fake residency documents, phony driver's licenses and other forms of counterfeit IDs have become commonplace on a growing number of Phoenix-area street corners. This has led to complaints from businesses near where the men ply their trade, selling largely to illegal immigrants.</p>

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who sold fake identification to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers allegedly had broader ties to terrorism than were previously known, according to previously secret documents unsealed on Tuesday.The court transcripts included allegations that Mohammed El-Atriss, 46, of Union Township, New Jersey, had been part owner of a Jersey City business with ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.Judge Marilyn Clark of Passaic County Superior Court unsealed the documents at the request of six news organizations. El-Atriss was sentenced in March to five years' probation and fined $15,000 for selling phony documents.Miles Feinstein,...

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - Secret evidence presented in a closed court session alleged that a man who sold fake IDs to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers had closer ties to terrorism than previously revealed, according to transcripts released Tuesday. In the end, authorities found no evidence to bring terrorism charges against Mohamad El-Atriss, and U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said Tuesday that El-Atriss "is not considered a threat to national security by us." In a plea bargain, El-Atriss was sentenced in March to five years' probation and fined $15,000 for selling phony documents. El-Atriss and his lawyer on Tuesday...

Fugitive arrested, accused of killing cop Tuesday, December 24, 2002By Ken KolkerThe Grand Rapids Press WYOMING -- One of Puerto Rico's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives -- accused of killing an off-duty police officer in Puerto Rico nearly two years ago -- was stopped and ticketed by police in West Michigan a half- dozen times since January, state records show. But a Michigan driver license obtained under a false name allowed him to evade the law -- until Monday. Federal agents arrested Yelin B. Otano-Matos, 22, just before 10 a.m. Monday outside an apartment complex in Wyoming after learning he had...

Fabiola Ochoa holds up her new Laser Visa Crossing Card at the US Port of Entry in Nogales, Ariz., on Tuesday. NOGALES - Despite new requirements that Mexicans carry new high-tech border-crossing cards to make short visits to the United States, federal authorities do not have enough machines in place at U.S. border checkpoints to read the encoded information encrypted on the cards.The computer equipment at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexican border also are still unable to read biometric information - digital photographs and fingerprints - that appear embedded in the card, Marie Sebrechts, an Immigration and Naturalization Service...

<p>MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- An Egyptian man found with more than 100 forms of false identification is not suspected of having terrorist ties, authorities said Wednesday.</p> <p>Hani Hassan, 26, is being held in Morris County on fraud and public records tampering charges.</p> <p>He was arrested July 19 in Morristown after a tip to the state attorney general's office that Hassan had obtained a driver's license using false information.</p> <p>Authorities searched his Orange home, and found more than 100 forms of false identification, including Social Security cards, passports, bank account records and other documents.</p>

A state grand jury indicted 36 people - including eight who worked for the Division of Motor Vehicle Services - for schemes that provided New Jersey driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and identity thieves.The indictments, handed up Thursday and announced Monday, outline criminal enterprises that reach from city streets in Newark, Paterson, and Union City to the counters of state DMV offices. License "brokers'' charged upward of $2,000 to obtain illicit permits and licenses for clients who couldn't drive legally or who wanted to steal others' identities, the state alleges.The ongoing, two-year investigation - dubbed "Operation Identity Crisis" - charges...