EXPOSED: How corrupt officials issued SA passports to terror group
'All of the recovered passports are legitimate. They contain the images of several South Africans on international terror watch lists'
15 May 2017 - 07:56
Fifteen unused South African passports, some containing pictures of South Africans on an international terrorist watch list, have been seized from an al-Shabab courier in Tanzania. A police crime intelligence source told The Times that at least one of the passports, some of which had visas for European countries, contains a photograph that might be that of international terror fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite, also known as “the White Widow”.
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