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| Ahmed Ressam, sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2005 for planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on 31 December 1999, acquired this ostensibly genuine Canadian passport by using a fraudulent baptismal certificate; note his use of a Western-sounding name. |
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| These passports were seized by French authorities as part of a group of 5,000 blank French passports stolen on 22 July 2003 in Marseilles. |
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| Terrorist Document Indicators |
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Physically altered passports |
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Passports with serial numbers that are watch-listed as lost or stolen |
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Handwritten documents that are easily forged or altered |
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Multiple passports used by the same person with variations in the spelling/structure of the name and of date of birth |
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Ambiguous or contradictory information submitted to consular or border control officials |
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Absence of supporting documents to corroborate passport information |
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Passports with glued-in photographs |
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Large gaps in travel history as reflected in stamps and visas |
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| Stolen South African passport |
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