10 March 2014 (09:52 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Jumada l-Ula 1435/19 Esfand 1392/10 Ding-Mao 4712
“Thailand has been used by some international terrorist groups as a zone of operation, to raise funds or to plan attacks.”-Rommel Banlaoi, terrorism analyst
“Thailand is a destination for international crime organizations who use it to secure travel documents, financial documents. It’s not just linked to terrorism but to other crimes. It’s a complex network, connected to other networks.”-Unnamed Thai intelligence official
“A police team combined with local police and immigration are working to track down a passport ring.”-Panya Mamen, Thai police commander
“If Malaysia Airlines and all airlines worldwide were able to check the passport details of prospective passengers against our database, then we would not have to speculate whether stolen passports were used by terrorists to board MH370.”-Ronald Noble, International Criminal Police Organization (aka ICPO, aka Interpol)
Surprisingly many countries do not check Interpol’s data base of stolen passports!
Thai police announced they are focusing their crack down on passport theft operations to the island of Phuket. Both the ‘fake’ MH370 passengers who bought consecutive tickets used faked passports that were made using stolen passports on the island resort.
In Thailand people who engage in making and selling fake passports can be jailed for up to 20 years, but here’s the problem; officials admit many Thai police are actually involved in the fake passport operations!
China Southern Airlines, which works with Malaysian Airlines, revealed that the two ‘fake’ passengers with consecutive tickets had also bought tickets to fly from China to Europe. The tickets were bought in Thailand.
The Thai travel agent who sold the tickets said the purchase of the tickets was actually arraigned over the phone by a man who claimed to be Iranian. She had also sold tickets to the ‘fake’ passengers for an earlier flight, on 06 March, but the tickets expired. She said the “Iranian” gave his name as Ali, only. She said she did regular business with this “Ali”, and he always paid in cash.
“We have stopped men with false or stolen passports and carrying explosives, who have tried to get past KLIA security and get on to a plane. There have been two or three incidents, but I will not divulge the details.”-Unnamed senior Malaysian police official to Reuters
There were reports that Malaysian police identified one of the two ‘fake’ passengers. No further details.
Vietnam reports their search planes have lost sight of what they thought might be wreckage of the Boeing 777. Oil slicks on the ocean turned out not to be from an aircraft, according to lab tests of oil samples.
Airline officials have revealed that five passengers who checked in, never got on the plane. Their luggage was also removed from the plane before takeoff.
Chinese officials have been criticizing the lax security in Malaysia. The majority of passengers on MH370 were Chinese.
passengers “were very important people”
entire passenger list looks fake
“passengers” on flight stole their ID