Wednesday, 21. March 2007
Topic: Terror - on March 21, 2007 at 6:00:00 PM CET
Al-Qaida gets fake papers as Home Office issues 10,000 passports to fraudsters
An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued after fraudulent applications in the space of a year - and al-Qaida terrorists have successfully faked applications, the Home Office admitted today.
The Home Office minister, Joan Ryan, said the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) had received 16,500 fraudulent applications between October 2005 and September 2006.
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