U.S. vulnerable to terrorists passing through Canada

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=93d9018115bde015

Big News Network.com Friday 8th April, 2005 (UPI)

The very same day as the announcement that Canadians, along with U.S. citizens, will have to show their passports to cross the border into the United States, Canada's auditor general reported that the Canadian Passport Office was ill-equipped to detect fraudulent or unqualified applications.

In a report to the Ottawa parliament delivered Tuesday of this week, Sheila Fraser, the Canadian government's top watchdog, said that the office 'was not meeting current security expectations for issuing passports.'

Officials processing applications, she said, often did not have the training or equipment to spot forged or fraudulent documents, and there were widespread examples of unauthorized access to the computer system that issued passports.

Fraser told United Press International in an interview Thursday that the problems are 'serious' and especially disturbing because 'a lot of faith is put in a passport. ... It is one of the few documents that actually establish your identity.'

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The question is not simply an academic one. The would-be millennium bomber, Ahmed Ressam, used a forged birth certificate to obtain a passport in the name of Benni Norris, which he then used in his failed December 1999 attempt to enter the United States and bomb the Los Angeles airport.
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Its literally amazing how there is really no security on our borders its all a joke!!!

[Maple]

1. Except no one has

Even a random bomber-wannabee was caught. And it was long before 911.

The people who hit the WTC were all in the US legally, and didn't come through here.

You can't secure your borders, and anyone who tell you it's possible is lying.

[saigon68]

2. Execpt the illegal mexicans who come to pick cabbage

And hold down wages in the US, so The Bush Criminals and their Corporation Allies make lots of $$$$$$$$$

[oblivious]

3. Hmm...5 of the alleged 911 hijackers trained at secure US military bases

And you're worried about Canada's security weaknesses!!!!!!!

From Newsweek Sept 2001

Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases

Sept. 15 — U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in Tuesday’s terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp?cp1=1

[Vidar]

4. The real terroists resde in either Saudi Arabia or Washington DC.

This is just more of little boots' saber rattling to punish Canadians for not swallowing all his bullshit. Hassling the liberal Canadians again.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. They are not closing the borders to keep terrsts out.

They are closing the borders to keep us in. Especially the young men aged 18-26.

[Voltaire99]

6. Good thing there aren't many terrorists in the world.

This just in: we're also vulnerable to gigantic asteroids passing through our solar system.