The Islamic State (ISIS) is printing fake Syrian passports that look legitimate and they already have been used for members to infiltrate the United States,
ABC News reports.
ABC quotes a 17-page Homeland Security Investigations Intelligence Report that was given to law enforcement organizations last week. According to the report, ISIS has had the ability to print the passports since taking over the city of Deir ez-Zour last summer, where a passport office was filled with "boxes of blank passports" and a passport printing machine.
A passport office was also located in Raqqa, Syria, which ISIS claims as its capital.
"Since more than 17 months [have] passed since Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour fell to ISIS, 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.," according to the report.
Fake passports reportedly can be bought for $200 to $400 in Syria, as can backdated passport stamps, ABC reports. They are so prevalent that most Syrians have ceased thinking of them as illegal.
A report in December said ISIS has
"tens of thousands" of blank passports.
"If ISIS' ability to produce passports is not controlled, their operations will continue to increase and expand outside of their operational controlled areas," the report says.
Two of the Paris attackers entered the country with fake Syria passports as part of the influx of refugees from that country.
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