Daesh can use fake Syrian passports to travel to US: Report
A US government agency says the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has the ability to create fake Syrian passports, which it can use to send militants to the United States.
A spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the contents of a CNN story on Friday, but declined to issue a copy of her agency’s report.
According to CNN, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement report has warned that Daesh has access to Syrian government passport printing machines and blank passports in areas under their control, suggesting that the terrorist group could create fake travel documents.
A law enforcement source told CNN that the Takfiri group had access to biographical and fingerprint data on Syrian citizens.
According to ABC News, the report, which was provided to law enforcement by the Homeland Security Investigations agency last week, warned that terrorists could use the fake documents to travel to America.
"Since more than 17 months [have] passed since Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour fell to ISIS, it is possible that individuals from Syria with passports 'issued' in these ISIS-controlled cities or who had passport blanks, may have traveled to the US," ABC News reported, quoting the report.
Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Washington has launched hundreds of airstrikes against the ISIL militants in Iraq and Syria, which analysts regard as part of the US attempts to gradually spread its influence in the Middle East region.
Daesh militants have vowed to conduct terrorist attacks inside the United States and other Western countries.
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