Honduras detains 5 Syrians over fake passports

[khwaidee1 196]

While some will make the "bunker" comments, I believe these guys pose a real threat and are determined to make good on their threats. Highly doubt these Syrians were "tourists" in Honduras but, I could be wrong. Just a little R & R from the war zone with stolen Greek passports, sounds plausible.

(CNN)Honduran police Wednesday said they detained five Syrian men who traveled with fake passports to the Central American country's capital.

"These citizens will be taken away and will be investigated. We already have confirmation that they had passports that were stolen in Greece," said Aníbal Baca, a spokesman for Honduras' Police Investigation Unit.

"We suppose that they were going to illegally travel by land all the way to the United States," Baca told reporters. He did not provide details on why police believe the group was planning to go to the United States but said that investigators would do more digging in the coming hours to confirm the group's travel plans.

Greek authorities and Interpol were involved in Honduras detaining the men, Baca said. Before the men had arrived, they had traveled to Lebanon, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and Costa Rica, he said.

Baca didn't specify why authorities had been tracking the men. They will be presented to prosecutors to be investigated on charges of falsification of documents, he said.

The arrests come amid increased international scrutiny of Syrian migrants amid concerns that oneterrorist in last week's Paris attacks may have used the sea of refugees flooding into Europe as a cover for his travel.

Earlier this week, authorities in St. Maarten detained three people who they said were of Syrian descent and were traveling with false Greek passports, according to information provided by St. Maarten authorities to U.S. law enforcement, a U.S. official said.

None of the detentions have been tied to terrorism. Many migrants with no ties to terrorism travel on false documents around the world.

Local media, citing a top security official, reported that Honduras has detained more than 12,000 foreigners who illegally have entered the country this year.

New U.S. effort to flag fake documents

It's unclear whether U.S. authorities played any role in the Honduras case.

But the United States is sharing information more widely from databases of false travel documents with countries in the region, the U.S. official said.

Partly in the wake of the Paris attacks, U.S. authorities are helping to coordinate a new effort to flag suspected fake passports and identity documents that terrorists could exploit to travel, the official said.

Intelligence and homeland security officials are increasingly alarmed at evidence that terrorist groups are using false passports to hide their travel, the official said.

Sharing information from the databases, the official said, can help prevent people from using migrant flows through Latin American countries to get into the United States. It's also part of renewed U.S. efforts to share more information with friendly countries so they can use it to enforce their own security, the official said.

CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet and Juan Carlos Lopez contributed to this report.

[Dakine10 5,452]

None of the detentions have been tied to terrorism. Many migrants with no ties to terrorism travel on false documents around the world.

On paper, that was a close call.

[khwaidee1 196]

Probably just a coincidence, nothing to do with world events, just trying to reach the promised land to open a little shop and live the good life.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Probably just a coincidence, nothing to do with world events, just trying to reach the promised land to open a little shop and live the good life.

Well I'm not coming out of the bunker yet, but I am going to hold off on all the renovations I had planned.

Someone let me know when it's safe to come out.

[khwaidee1 196]

Well you can rest assured that CBP will be manning the border keeping people out and the TSA will be on their highest level of vigilance so we're all good.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Well you can rest assured that CBP will be manning the border keeping people out and the TSA will be on their highest level of vigilance so we're all good.

Thank's for keeping it real.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Greek authorities and Interpol were involved in Honduras detaining the men, Baca said. Before the men had arrived, they had traveled to Lebanon, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and Costa Rica, he said.

Must have been just doing a bit of sightseeing ...

[smilesammich 10,727]

Must have been just doing a bit of sightseeing ...

aw lib, you're so precious. i think they're main concern was getting to america. seeing the world is just a bonus..

[lostinblue 1,989]

aw lib, you're so precious. i think they're main concern was getting to america. seeing the world is just a bonus..

Perhaps they needed to meet up with a few of their country men scattered around the globe ... Discuss business ...

[khwaidee1 196]

The picked up some hash in Turkey, some Captagon in Lebanon, some coke in Brazil, some wine in Argentina, some weed in Costa Rica and they were getting ready to party down in Honduras!

[smilesammich 10,727]

Perhaps they needed to meet up with a few of their country men scattered around the globe ... Discuss business ...

perhaps.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Perhaps the air supply to the bunker is due for maintenance.

[smilesammich 10,727]

i guess it all comes down to how you look at it, on one hand..5 syrians, who may or may not be radicalized were detained because authorities were aware that they were headed this way or isis is invading the united states and honduras managed to catch 5 for the us (because the us isn't actually paying attention, you see the president actually wants all the terrorists here to have a family reunion).

Edited November 19, 2015 by elitesthuglib

[GandD 5,966]

TIL that Captagon is a thing

[smilesammich 10,727]

TIL what TIL means.