ISIS reportedly has TENS OF THOUSANDS of blank stolen passports.
** Two of the Paris ISIS killers were using fake Syrian passports when they entered Europe as refugees.
** Two ISIS fighters were captured in Austria in December 2015 posing as refugees.
The Islamic State may have stolen “tens of thousands” of black passports that it may use to smuggle fighters into the West.
The AFP reported:
The Islamic State group may have stolen “tens of thousands” of blank passports that it could use to smuggle its fighters into Europe as refugees, a German newspaper reported Sunday.
The Welt am Sonntag cited Western intelligence sources as saying that IS could have acquired the stolen travel documents in areas of Syria, Iraq and Libya it now controls.
The passports could be issued to would-be attackers to enter the European Union as asylum seekers, according to the report.
Moreover IS has already launched a money-spinning operation with the fake documents, selling them on the black market where they fetch up to 1,500 euros ($1,630) each, Welt said.
European authorities have repeatedly warned of the potential threat posed by refugees travelling with counterfeit documents.
The two unidentified Stade de France attackers in Paris have been tracked back to two fake Syrian passports used to enter Europe.
“The large influx of people who are travelling to Europe unchecked represents a security risk,” the head of EU border agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, told Welt.
After the ISIS Paris attacks the Islamic State released this graphic.
The ISIS killers who participated in the attack trained in Syria – then traveled back to France to kill over 130 people.
