[jan in Colorado]

dozens of foreign passports," including several American passports, on the bodies of al Qaeda fighters killed in combat between forces affiliated with the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and Ethiopian forces in Somalia.

In other news, the borders are still wide open and Congress is going to save us all by raising minimum wage...

[AFreeBird]

Careful Jan, the hall monitor is going to come around and accuse you of high jacking this thread.

Never mind that the new rule requires US citizens to have a passport to travel to Canada and back, and these ragheads could either be US citizens or merely using modified stolen passports. Now Canada might actually give a damn - sorta maybe - but we all know that mexico doesn't, and as has been reported here, mexican ports of entry who have detained ME people in the past; have actually let them go and directed them north as a method of leaving their country.

Perhpas having a US passport is just a means to enter mexico where they may not be so inclined to give it much scrutiny, and from there they can either try their luck at the border, or just hitch a ride with the next coyote heading north.

I any event, it is germain to this discussion even if it is OT.

Post away! :-))