Passport investigation suggests security hole
Dateline investigation suggests that even now, six years after the 9/11 attacks, terrorists could easily get a passport to cross almost any border
NBC News
updated 4:45 p.m. CT, Fri., Dec. 28, 2007

According to the article, fake passports appear easiest to get in a couple of South American countries.

"Passports from Spain and most other European countries are prized on the black market because they do not require a visa to enter the United States."

If an employee of a Spanish or other Euro embassy in SA can be bribed to supply blank documents, and especially if that employee or an appropriate other one can enter the phony name into the national database, the the faked passport becomes a real passport.

So why wouldn't a Pakistani terrorist go to South America first, to get documentation, and then pass right on up through Mexico to the US?

Or fly up to Canada and come in through the other border.?

One example doesn't make a rule, but:

Milorad Ulemek, who assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in March 2003, used a stolen blank passport to create an alias, and then crossed borders 26 times with the document before the assassination, according to Interpol chief Noble.

John