‘Islamic state’s fake passports disrupt the alarm bells of foreign intelligence: new documents

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- ‘Islamic State’ received in its ranks members holding fake passports. Also, Islamic State issued fake passports and semi fake ones.

The fake passport issue will last for years to come, and it will be a real preoccupation that bothers every authority which undertakes under its specialty to chase and track down the ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists.’

The fake passport issue was present in most squares of cities which witnessed explosion attacks around the world in the recent past. The statement ‘a fake passport’ is repeated in documents of Islamic state fighters in a noticeable way that leads to believe using fake documents is very frequent for those who want to join the ranks of Islamic state. On the other hand, it is an ‘acceptable’ behavior and ‘confessor’ by the organization whose followers and supporters prefer to call it a ‘caliphate state’.


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Zaman al-Wasl reveals in this new part of another group that holds fake travel documents used by individuals who wanted to join the Islamic state. They travelled through countries without being suspected until they reached the organization. They admitted faking their passports and it was documented in an explicit way in the document of the fake passport holder.

It has to be mentioned that the ‘complex’ of fake documents which haunted many states and their security and intelligence apparatuses and which disrupted ‘alarm bells’ owned by these apparatuses and these bells are paired with a list of specific names. Islamic state did not only accept fake passport holders in its ranks, it also deliberately organizes fake passports benefiting from its control over unknown numbers of empty Syrian passports and devices for printing the Syrian passports. These factors made the Syrian passport a passport to be suspected and inspected from different countries.

The passports issued by the Islamic state are divided into two parts: in one part, the fake passport has fake names and dates of birth. This type of passport is usually given to an individual from a different nationality like for example a Tunisian is given a Syrian passport. The second part is a supplement of a fake passport or so considered by world countries. It is a accurate passport in its form and data, but it is not registered in regime records. Hence, it is considered fake and unacknowledged.

The Syrian regime still represents the ‘legitimate’ government and takes pride in the travel documents it issues.


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In almost every explosion in this capital or that, the fake passport effect appears either by allowing that passport for a dangerous ‘fugitive’ who escaped inspection gates on the borders and reached his goal, or by distorting the investigation authorities to diverge the investigation in a different way from the truth by leaving a fake passport in the explosion area before those authorities discern the fact the passport is fake. In other instances, the authorities do not realize this fact. In the recent events in Belgium which led to killing and detention of several wanted individuals on ‘terrorism’ list. Some media outlets got confused while reporting on Belgian authorities saying there was a person called ‘Ameen Shukri’, whereas in reality it’s a fake name found in a fake passport for one of the fugitives during tracking down operation.

The fake passport issue will be present for many years to come and it would still be premonition for each authority tracking down ’terrorists’ and ‘extremists’ on their lists. Therefore, it is very important to reveal fake passport holders, their fake and real names and even the ‘nationality’ of the passport they are holding. These are highly sensitive data. Zaman al-Wasl works consecutively on revealing this data through the documents it owns.
Zaman al-Wasl investigated the credibility and verification of some documents issued by ‘Islamic State’ organization. The documents acknowledge joiners of the organization who hold fake passports.

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The information related to the passport is usually written in ‘notices’ field. It is the 23rd field and the last field from the sample of ‘jihadist data’ the unified and accredited by ‘the general administration of borders’ subsidiary to the organization. It is similar to ‘Immigration and Passports Administration’ in any country.

In the first part of fake passports subject, Zaman al-Wasl exposed data of 10 members of the organization and they are holders of these passports. Now, it will expose other 10 members of different nationalities. 

With reminders that the newspaper purposefully concealed critical information like the real name. It only provided the fake name, mother name, contact numbers and that is due to considerations related to the newspaper’s editorial policy and the rules it committed to in this specific profile. The newspaper committed in the provided data to the text of the documents regardless of spelling or printing mistakes.

  • Abu Ahmad al-Qirawani, Tunisian Nationality, holds a fake passport under the name ‘Ali Abdullah Ali’. His real name is listed in notices’ field (Zaman al-Wasl concealed the real name), born in 1986, education, ‘preparatory sections’.

  • Abu al-Baraa al-Ghareeb, Palestinian Nationality, holds a fake passport according to notices’ field, born in 1986, education ‘telecommunication engineering’.

  • Abu Saad al-Tunsi, Tunisian Nationality, holds a fake passport under the name ‘Saleh Salem Ali’, his real name is listed in notices’ field (Zaman al-Wasl concealed the name), born in 1992, education ‘secondary education’.

  • Abu Suhaib al-Qirawani, Libyan Nationality and originally Tunisian, holds a Libyan passport faked under the name ‘Salem Hussein Ali Dasree’, his real name is listed in notices’ field (Zaman al-Wasl concealed it), born in 1987, education ‘masters; media manufacturer’.

  • Abu Obaida al-Leebi, Libyan Nationality, holds a fake passport under the name ‘Salem Mohamed Salem’, his real name is listed in notices’ field (concealed by Zaman al-Wasl), born in 1994, education, ‘Oil industries vocational institute’.

  • Abu Malek al-Muhajer, Libyan Nationality and originally Palestinian, holds a Libyan fake passport under the name ‘Saleem Muhammed Saleem Abdullah’, his real name is listed in notices’ filed (concealed by Zaman al-Wasl), born in 1989, education, ‘elementary education’.
  • Abu Yusuf al-Tunsi, Tunisian Nationality, holds a Libyan fake passport according to what is listed in notices’ field, born in 1990, education ‘Media engineering stage’.

  • Abu al-Waleed al-Leebi, Libyan Nationality, holds a fake passport under the name ‘Said Hasan Ali Bin Ali’, his real name is listed under notices’ field (concealed by Zaman al-Wasl), born in 1990, education ‘elementary education’.

  • Abu Hafs al-Muhajer, Tunisian Nationality, holds a Libyan fake passport under the name ‘Muftah Saad Salem al-Obaidi’, his real name is listed in notices’ field (concealed by Zaman al-Wasl), born in1987, education ‘elementary education’.

  • Abu Khatab al-Tunsi, Libyan Nationality and originally Tunisian, holds a fake passport under the name ‘Hasan Ali Mohamed Bin Ali’, his real name is listed in notices’ field (concealed by Zaman al-Wasl), born in 1988, education ‘Intermediate education’.

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