Posted on 01/03/2010 12:03:20 AM PST by Frankusa
Sahara Reporters has obtained a copy of the international passport (#A-392-1640) of Farouk Umar AbdulMuttalab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who was arrested on Christmas day following a failed plot to bomb Northwest flight 253 as it was preparing to land in Detroit. The document was issued in Lagos on September 15 2005 and is set to expire on September 15, 2110.
Kurt Haskell, a Michigan attorney who was on board the plane, has told various new outlets that he had seen a well-dressed man attempt to help Mr. Abdulmutallab board the flight in Amsterdam without a passport. But apparently, a passport had indeed been issued to Mr. Abdulmutallab.
Meanwhile, the New York Times on Friday, quoted a Nigerian intelligence official who criticized both Nigerian and American Intelligence agencies for failing to pass on the warnings it had received from Mr. Abdulmutallab’s own father. However, the official aimed his harshest criticism at his American counterparts, “because these are agencies we look up to.”
“If we had been informed, we would have put him on a watch list,” he said. “There’s no way he would have boarded a plane in Nigeria.”
The official said that the Americans, in particular, should have been more careful “because they are the major targets.”
“If they can’t work on simple intelligence from what I would describe as a reliable person,” he said, [then] "nobody’s safe if they don’t take it seriously.”
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—The official said that the Americans, in particular, should have been more careful “because they are the major targets.”—
I had a scary thought tonight. What if terrorist hijacked a large plane going to a country that was not a “major target”? It would seem easier to do and they could use it to fly to America and crash it into our buildings. If we were to shoot the plane down before the attack we would be killing all the passengers on board and blamed for murder by every country who would say we acted to hastily.
Every country should take these precautions or even their own citizens can be a target of terrorism.
That’s the question I’m asking. If he had it on the flight to Detroit, then it’s in federal custody. There’d be no logical reason to think that the federal government would allow evidence to be photographed and released to the public prior to trial.
Seeing the passport now would tend to lend credibility to that attorney’s story.
“Are those “international passports” different than the US passports”
Well, my memory is failing, but I am almost sure that I did not need my BC when obtaining my passport in Memphis, some years ago.
I did, however, have to provide my BC when applying for Social Security, a few years ago, through the embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
I do not know what an international passport is.
I filled up my first US passport and had to have new pages added.
I now have a new US passport, obtained this year in the Philippines, as the last one expired.
They are good for ten years.
As far as I know, there is no such thing as an “International Passport”. Passports are issued by individual countries to certify the identity of a person who is a citizen of that particular country. Each country sets its own proof of citizenship, though I would presume that most require a certificate of birth or of naturalization if one is an immigrant.
“I would presume that most require a certificate of birth”
Yes, you are right. I just did not remember having mine when I got my passport.
http://www.visahq.com/birth_certificate.php
Interesting that if your from California, you have to have the LONG FORM certificate.
Lucky for Obozo that he is not from California, hahaha
Great Britain refused to allow the terrorist back into their country.
The Saudi’s came personally to Obamao to warn him of underwear bombers.
Obamao too busy partying, trying to enrich his cronies with globaloney warming scams and Chicago Olympic scams.
That all the while partying and jetting around the country wasting money and time.
Reminds me of the torn up suicide not found in Vince Foster’s briefcase days after the briefcase had been found to be empty.
Expired passportm but new papers showing he applied for new passport:
Enter the well dressed Indian gent at Amsterdam...
“He’s from the Sudan and we do this all the time.”
Oh, I'm so relieved. That explains it....(/sarc).
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