PRETORIA, South Africa ? When an alleged mastermind of al-Qaida attacks on U.S. embassies was killed in East Africa, officials said he was carrying a fake South African passport.
Security experts have been warning for years that corruption in South Africa is allowing terrorists to get documents to hide their identities and make it easier to travel.
An official responsible for issuing South African passports says there have been improvements, but acknowledges more needs to be done. Mkuseli Apleni says the passport found with terror suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a copy of the easily forged passport South Africa no longer produces. Mohammed was killed last week in Somalia.
Counterterrorism specialist Scott Stewart says it's possible in South Africa to "give the right guy several hundred dollars" for a passport.
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