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Syrian passports found at Paris jihad attacks scene were fakes made in Turkey

Nov 17, 2015 5:55 am By Robert Spencer

“Fake Syrian passports have become a valuable commodity in recent months and are freely traded on the black market, as they can help ease the path for non-Syrians to get protection as refugees in Europe.” That may explain why they had these fake passports, but there is also this: “In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, many commenters have questioned why the perpetrators would carry passports with them during the highly co-ordinated attacks. Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and Paris resident, said the move could be part of a strategy by IS to ‘discredit’ refugees and force Europe to close its borders.” While it is possible that the Islamic State wants Europeans to turn against the refugees, in hopes of starting a civil war in Europe, and so the jihadis carried these passports so as to give the impression that they were refugees and thereby ignite anti-refugee sentiment, it is also that the jihadis carried these passports simply to alleviate suspicion and ease their movements. Financial Times, after all, represents the European establishment that very much wants this influx of Muslim refugees, and so is likely to discount any evidence that there may be a problem with the refugees storming into Europe in such numbers.

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“Syrian passports found at Paris attacks scene were fakes made in Turkey,” by Mary Atkinson, Middle East Eye, November 15, 2015:

Syrian passports found near the bodies of two of the suspected Paris attackers were fakes that were likely made in Turkey, police sources in France told Channel 4 News on Sunday.

Greek officials had said on Saturday that one of the two passports was held by someone who had registered as a refugee on the Greek island of Leros on 3 October.

Officials denied, though, that a second attacker had taken a similar route, telling the Guardian there was “no indication whatsoever” that the assailant had entered Europe through Greece. The comments came amid widening investigations into the attacks that killed 132 people in the French capital on Friday.

Authorities across Europe continue to probe the identity of seven assailants amid questions over how they managed to co-ordinate multiple attacks, which have since been claimed by the Islamic State group, without attracting the attention of security services.

Only one of the attackers has as yet been publicly named, amid ongoing attempts to identify the victims – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday that the bodies of up to 30 people killed in the assaults have yet to be identified.

Authorities on Sunday named the attacker as Omar Ismail Mostefai, a 29-year-old Frenchman born and raised in Paris but with family connections to Algeria.

Mostefai’s recent movements have not yet been made public, although British intelligence officials have said the attackers were part of a cell that recently returned from fighting in Syria.

Fake Syrian passports have become a valuable commodity in recent months and are freely traded on the black market, as they can help ease the path for non-Syrians to get protection as refugees in Europe.

A Dutch journalist reported in September that he had bought a fake Syrian passport and ID card, both bearing the picture of the Dutch prime minister, for $825.

Fake Syrian passports are also bought by Syrians who have not been able to get documents due to the war.

Chris Doyle, head of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said there is great demand for fake passports because many Syrians living outside government-controlled areas are rendered effectively stateless by the difficulty of obtaining documents.

In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, many commenters have questioned why the perpetrators would carry passports with them during the highly co-ordinated attacks.

Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and Paris resident, said the move could be part of a strategy by IS to “discredit” refugees and force Europe to close its borders….

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  1. Markus Lukas says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 6:02 am

    Syrians and Turks: there’s a reason Tolkien wrote the orcs with scimitars.

    • shortfattexan says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 7:30 am

      If you think Tolkien’s orcs were politically incorrect, you should read The Chronicles of Narnia. I guarantee the Calormenes would never make it into a Disney movie.

      • ? says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 9:40 am

        C.S. Lewis had them pinned right down to their worship of undesirable, devil “god” Tash (Allah in his true form) and the dyed beard. Now that I think about it I think Lewis was on to something…in the book the Last Battle there was this liberal ape who tricked all of Narnia into accepting a certain religion and molding it with their own beliefs…(strange huh?)…then he silenced anyone who questioned him by claiming “heresy”….(sound familiar?)…pretty soon he and foreign invaders from the south put Narnians to death for not accepting the foreign invaders (ring any bells?) then the real Tash actually showed up, and when he passed by everything around him started to smell like death, wither, and rot kind of like the real Allah.
        C.S. Lewis….predicted the future….mind blown…

  2. Moth Queen says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 8:12 am

    I notice most of these updates are written by Robert Spencer. Doesn’t he ever sleep?

    • ? says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 9:43 am

      Mu-slime cowards don’t take a rest so neither will this hero… Keep up the good work Mr. Spencer! I am ashamed to say I didn’t know about this mans work earlier….

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 9:44 am

      Did Winston Churchill in World War 2?

      • ? says

        Nov 17, 2015 at 9:46 am

        No he didn’t and he also was criticized for his “warmongering” and “paranoia” sad thing is he couldn’t say “I told you so” because he had a war to win

    • ballotcode says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 12:07 pm

      I’m glad he’s on this. There will be plenty of time for rest, later.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm

      You’re right, Moth Queen. Robert Spencer–besides his decency, erudition, and bravery–seems to be completely indefatigable.

  3. ? says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 9:47 am

    And it’s wrong to distrust “Syrians” why again?

  4. Don McKellar says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 9:48 am

    You scratch the surface of Islamic terror and you find bankrolling from Saudi Arabia/Qatar or Iran and logistics and other assistance from the Erogan’s new Turkey. That’s just the way it works.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 11:51 am

      Precisely. French bombing of Raqqa missed the mark by some 1,300 nautical miles. The proper target should have been Doha in Qatar (as well Riyadh).

      European Leftists have ideological autopilots instead of historical knowledge. The lesson of young America’s contretemps with the Barbary Coast pirates is lost on them because they have never heard of it. (American Leftists have learned to think only fashionable post-modern thoughts.)

      The current set-up of the Arabian peninsula is the result of Western intervention starting with the destruction of the Ottoman empire. Obviously, some corrective surgery is now required:

      1) Saudi Arabia and the other oil nations (Qatar, UAE, Dubai) becomes an international protectorate, with oil-producing areas split up among the U.S., China, Russia, and the EU. Christians from Arabic-speaking countries will enjoy free residence rights in the Protectorate.

      2) Mecca including the Ka’aba itself and Medina will each be divided down the middle into sectors (like post-war Vienna and Berlin) respectively administered by multi-national trusts representing Sunni, Shiite and minority Muslim groups (Alawites etc.) to ensure eternal squabbling.

      3) Best of all: the so-called “Palestinians” and finally get a new, much larger homeland in the Rub’ al Khali (“Empty Quarter”). With the Palestinians’ famous drive and ingenuity, New Palestine will become a beautiful oasis in a matter of months. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood already knows how to live in the Sinai Desert so the move to New Sinai will hardly bother them.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Passports may need to be shown at the Belgian border. A car used in the Paris attack was hired in Belgium.

  6. mortimer says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:10 am

    Fake refugees? Fake passports? Fake need to bring in the refugees who are already in safe places?

    WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

  7. Jay Boo says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Some of the attackers were reportedly on a watch lists but the authorities “could do nothing” until they committed a crime. The Obama regime officials say not to worry about the Syrian asylum seekers they will be highly vetted. Officials in Syria are in need of cash to survive the chaos and are corruptible not to mention their minds are corrupted by Islam. With such a massive flood of people that creates a need for massive information and long backlogs assuming the NSA can track hidden information and the State Dept or whoever does the vetting can find legitimate records.
    What kind of document control exists in war torn Syria?

  8. Jay Boo says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:44 am

    Not to worry,
    Turkey is our NATO ally.
    Turkey is on our team.

  9. Westman says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:46 am

    “Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and Paris resident, said the move could be part of a strategy by IS to “discredit” refugees and force Europe to close its borders….”

    Uh-huh. IS wants to close the open fellow-traveler routes into Europe?

    With this kind of bizarre logic, why would anyone take Mr. Kupers advice on financial matters?

  10. Jay Boo says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Maybe we should increase the flood of Syrian Muslim refugees into the West in order to teach ISIS a lesson, NPR implies.

    NPR suggests that ISIS wanted the authorities to find the fake passport.
    Their theory is ISIS is trying to keep more Syrians under their control.
    This conflicts with an earlier JW article.

  11. Custos Custodum says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Whether the passport itself was “real” (authorized by the Syrian government) or fake is largely IRRELEVANT in terms of what happened in Paris.

    What is relevant is that ONE AND THE SAME TERRORIST INDIVIDUAL CARRYING THE DOCUMENT WAS TRACKED FROM GREECE THROUGH THE BALKANS TO PARIS. Even if the individual was in fact, e.g. Algerian or Lebanese rather than Syrian, what matters is that he was a Muslim male, French speaking, and NOT a French citizen.

    Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and Paris resident, said the move could be part of a strategy by IS to “discredit” refugees and force Europe to close its borders….

    No doubt Simon Kuper is a dedicated family man. College for the kids and nice vacations with the wife can be expensive. It would be unfeeling to criticize a guy for making a few extra bucks.

  12. ballotcode says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    I think this is being over thought.
    There are “death benefits” that go along with blowing yourself up. Families are supported and acknowledged as being heros.
    Daesh does not want the borders closed. Freedom of movement and more migrants into Europe, win/win.

  13. Angemon says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and Paris resident, said the move could be part of a strategy by IS to “discredit” refugees and force Europe to close its borders….

    Mr. Kuper, I’m disappointed with you – how islamophobic can you get? Blaming the islamic state for this attempt to “discredit” “refugees”? Tsk tsk. Why not go with the narrative and blame racist white Europeans (I apologize for the repetition)? The racist white Europeans don’t want want muslims musliming their racist white Europe so they orchestrated the whole thing, No, you know what? Just go the whole nine yards and blame the Jews – or Israel, or Mossad, or whatever euphemism is now in vogue. We all know it’s going to come to that, so why bother going through all the steps?

    • Asian Crusader says

      Nov 17, 2015 at 3:14 pm

      Hahaha!

      Reminds one of the good old days of the Cold War Albania where Radio Tirana regularly trumpeted the discovery of fiendish American-Soviet-Yugoslav trifecta conspiracies against Enver Hoxha’s national-socialist workers’ paradise.

  14. max says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    I read once that every turk knows the town in turkey where do you get every document you want!I was written that in this little town in every 2nd house false papers where made…great isn´t it?

  15. gravenimage says

    Nov 17, 2015 at 11:22 pm

    Simon Kuper knows what the *real* problem in the world is–and it isn’t Jihad!

    This piece reads like a parody–but it is not:

    “Terrorists killed nearly 18,000 people in 2013 — 1.5 per cent of those killed by traffic”

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/125c9f54-24ec-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html

    “If humanity wants some quick wins, a good place to start would be road accidents…”

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