Home Office gives terrorists British passports

An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued to fraudulent applicants last year by the Home Office Home Secretary John Reid.

The man who plotted to use a radioactive "dirty bomb" in London was issued with nine passports, the Home Secretary John Reid admitted today.

Seven of these were issued in his own name and two in false identities-Dhiren Barot was one of two terrorists who managed to obtain passports fraudulently.

Barot, 34, from Kingsbury, north-west London, was convicted last year of conspiring to murder large numbers of civilians in the capital by blowing up gas cylinders and detonating a dirty bomb.
The second terrorist is Salaheddine Benyaich, a Moroccan national currently serving 18 years in his home country for involvement in the al Qaeda-inspired Casablanca bombings.

The astonishing development came as the Home Office was forced to admit up to 10,000 people had managed to obtain passports by deception in the past year.

Minister Joan Ryan revealed the Identity and Passport Service received 16,500 suspicious applications between October 2005 to September And although "almost half" were stopped by existing safeguards, the minister said the remainder went undetected.

Also obtaining false passports are illegal immigrants and members of organised crime gangs.

(Obviously due to the Home Office incompetence all law abiding citizens have to pay large sums for a new style passport and be inconvenienced - ED)