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Daesh might have its own passport printing machine and ‘boxes of blank passports’, according to a new US intelligence report.

In the 17-page Homeland Security Investigations Intelligence Report, which was obtained by abc News, the terror group is said to have likely been able to print realistic-looking Syrian passports ever since it took over Deir ez-Zour last summer.

Deir ez-Zour is home to a passport office with ‘boxes of blank passports’, the report said, and a passport printing machine. Another passport office was also found in Raqqa, the proclaimed capital of the so-called Islamic State.

‘Since more than 17 months [have] passed since Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour fell to ISIS, it is possible that individuals from Syria with passports “issued” in these Isis-controlled cities or who had passport blanks, may have traveled to the U.S.,’ the report reads.




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Daesh may have had access to passport printing technology since last summer (Picture: Reuters)

The intelligence was rated at ‘moderate confidence’, the second-highest source assessment rating.

Fake Syrian passports were used by two of the suicide bombers involved in the attacks on Paris on 13 November, and the report claims that false Syria passports are ‘so prevalent in Syria that Syrians do not even view possessing them as illegal.’

False documentation sells for between $200 (£131) and $400 (£263) in Syria, according to the report.

Tracking down the passport printing machines is difficult because they are portable, and therefore their ‘whereabouts remain fluid’.

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