{"id":21842,"date":"2015-12-13T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-warns-islamic-state-has-passport-printing-21842\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T02:00:00","slug":"us-warns-islamic-state-has-passport-printing-21842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-warns-islamic-state-has-passport-printing-21842\/","title":{"rendered":"US Warns Islamic State has Passport-Printing Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The U.S. government is issuing a fresh warning that the Islamic State group may have the ability to create increasingly genuine-looking fake Syrian passports, raising fears that extremists could sneak into the West.}<\/p>\n

Islamic State has access to Syrian passport-printing machines, blank passport booklets and authentic biographical data on Syrian citizens, according to a report by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.<\/p>\n

The report, parts of which were published by CNN Friday, was issued to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who have become increasingly concerned about border security following several recent IS-linked terror attacks.<\/p>\n

According to ABC News, the report warned “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 U.S.”<\/p>\n

State Department spokesman John Kirby on Friday said he was aware of the reports, adding officials take the threat seriously and that consular officers are trained to detect fraudulent documents.<\/p>\n

Many policymakers in the U.S. are concerned extremists may sneak into the U.S. as part of a group of refugees that are fleeing violence in Syria. They object to a White House plan that will allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S.<\/p>\n

Fears were heightened after the discovery that at least one of the militants in last month’s deadly Paris attacks had slipped into Europe in the wave of Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

\"Passengers<\/figure>\n

SOURCE:VOICE OF AMERICA:[US Warns Islamic State has Passport-Printing Capability->http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/syrian-passports\/3100077.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{The U.S. government is issuing a fresh warning that the Islamic State group may have the ability to create increasingly genuine-looking fake Syrian passports, raising fears that extremists could sneak into the West.} Islamic State has access to Syrian passport-printing machines, blank passport booklets and authentic biographical data on Syrian citizens, according to a report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2475],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-voice-of-america"],"bylines":[{"id":2475,"name":"VOICE OF AMERICA","slug":"voice-of-america","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2475,"name":"VOICE OF AMERICA","slug":"voice-of-america","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070827,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21842.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}