Friday, December 03, 2004

All terror attacks use false passports, claims Interpol chief / The Register, 2 Dec 2004

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/noble_wows_lords/
John Lettice
"The 'terrorists use false ID' claim achieved a significant escalation yesterday as Interpol general secretary Ron Noble told a House of Lords Committee that all terrorist incidents involve a false passport. The UK Home Office has clearly been thinking small when it trots out the 'fact' that 35 per cent of terrorists use false IDs in support of its ID card scheme. But surely Noble over-eggs the pudding, just ever so slightly?
Actually his claim is such demonstrable rubbish that it's difficult to see how he could have said quite what the BBC report quotes him as saying: 'It's been proven in every single terrorist incident that a fraudulent passport has been used.' "