The Islamic State has equipment to print Syrian passports

American intelligence agencies have discovered that the Islamic State terrorist group has equipment and blank forms to create fake Syrian passports. Washington is concerned that terrorists have the ability to produce false documents.

As the ABC News Citing a 17-page report from the US Department of Homeland Security, terrorists were able to print counterfeit passports allegedly last summer when they took control of the city of Deir ez-Zour. Another “passport office” is located in Raqqa, which has effectively become the capital of the Islamic State.

According to the intelligence services, a fake passport can be purchased in Syria for the amount from 200 to 400 dollars. The same are the passport stamps stamped in hindsight.

According to a US intelligence source in Syria cited by the report's authors, Syria is flooded with forged documents. “The source also noted that counterfeit Syrian passports are so common in Syria that Syrians do not even consider them to be fake,” ABC News quoted the report as saying.

The possibility of IS terrorists producing counterfeit passports in the United States was perceived as a high threat. “The intelligence community is concerned that they have the ability to produce counterfeit passports,” FBI Director James Comey said.

The report noted that more than 17 months have passed since the capture of Raqqa and Deir-e-Zaur by IS militants. American intelligence fears that during this time, those who received fake passports may have gone to the United States.

Previously fake Syrian passports have already been found in Europe. After a series of terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, the French police discovered a Syrian passport for 25-year-old Ahmad al-Muhammad next to the body of one of the suicide bombers. Later, the Serbian police arrested a man, in the passport of which the same data was indicated as that found in France.

Earlier, journalists noticed that the Islamic State is characterized by the greatest secrecy, unlike other terrorist groups. About a third of all Islamic State communications occur through encrypted channels. In addition, terrorists actively vary their methods of communication and regularly change mobile phones to avoid detection via satellite.

At the same time, terrorists have a source of income - oil trading. According to the US Treasury Department, the Islamic State receives $40 million a month from fuel smuggling, with the bulk of it being purchased by the government of Bashar al-Assad, and some of the raw materials going to Turkey.

As Forum previously wrote, the Barack Obama administration back in September presented a plan for locating 10 in a country of thousands of refugees from Syria during 2016. However after terrorist acts in Paris against taking refugees were made state governors 31 and other politicians. They come up with the most incredible explanations of why migrants should not be allowed in - for example, some Republicans are seriously afraid that the Syrians in the US will be cold.