Syrian passport found next to suicide bomber was definitely a forgery!

PARIS, France (PNN) - November 15, 2015 - Yesterday, we commented on the oddly fortuitous discovery of an intact Syrian passport found next to the body of one of the suicide bombers, a passport which Greece chimed in as belonging to a Syrian refugee who had entered the country at Leros on October 3, 2015, from where he subsequently traveled all the way to Paris.

Shortly thereafter, it was Serbia's turn to join the story of the rogue "Syrian refugee", when the Serbian newspaper Blic published the picture of the alleged Syrian passport belonging to a 25-year-old man named Ahmed Almohamed, and said he had crossed into the country on October 7, having arrived four days earlier in Leros, Greece, seeking Serbian refugee status.

Then a Greek newspaper, Protothema, said he was traveling with a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, and published pictures purporting to show their travel documents.

Then a few hours ago, the story took an even more surreal twist when we learned that, according to both French and Fascist Police States of Amerika sources, the passport was "definitely a forgery".

The Syrian passport did not contain the correct numbers for a legitimate Syrian passport and the picture did not match the name.

So how to make sense from a story that has drifted from the merely laughable, to the bizarre, to the outright surreal? Guardian's Patrick Kingsley attempts and explanation:

There are several reasons why it’s worth waiting until all the facts are known before making too strong a link between the attacks and the refugee crisis. The first is a general one: on at least 12 occasions, ISIS has actually criticized refugees for fleeing to Europe. “For those who want to blame the attacks in Paris on refugees, you might want to get your facts straight,” wrote Aaron Zelin, an analyst of jihad, in an online commentary about the 12 outbursts. “The reality is [ISIS] loathes that individuals are fleeing Syria for Europe. It undermines [ISIS’] message that its self-styled caliphate is a refuge.” It’s therefore unlikely that the vast majority of Syrians fleeing to Europe are ISIS supporters, since their actions are in obvious contravention of the group’s creed.

The second reason for caution is more specific. Investigators still need to verify the Syrian passport was carried by an attacker rather than a dead bystander (one Egyptian passport-holder initially believed to be an assailant turned out to be an injured victim). They will then need to be certain that the passport’s carrier was the same as the passport’s legitimate owner.

It’s possible that it was stolen. Since the possession of a Syrian passport makes it easier to claim asylum in Europe, there is a busy trade in stolen Syrian documents. Syrians interviewed on Greece’s border with Macedonia have described how they were mugged for their passports after leaving the Greek islands as they tried to make their way north through the Balkans. Such passports can be sold on for as much as several thousand euros, in a trade that the EU’s border agency acknowledges is a growing problem. Forgeries are also common; a Dutch journalist recently had one made in the name of his prime minister.

A third red flag is the fact that the passport concerned was found in the first place. Analysts find it strange that a bomber would remember to bring his passport on a mission, particularly one who does not intend to return alive. “Why would a jihadist who expressly rejects all notions of modern citizenship take his passport on a suicide mission?” tweeted Charlie Winter, an analyst focusing on Islamist extremism. “So it gets found.”

One theory is that ISIS hopes to turn Europe against Syrian refugees. This would reinforce the idea of unresolvable divisions between east and west, and Christians and Muslims, and so persuade Syrians that Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate is their best hope of protection. “You know what pissed off Islamist extremists the most about Europe?” summarized Iyad El-Baghdadi, an activist and jihadi-watcher, on Twitter. “It was watching their very humane, moral response to the refugee crisis.”

His conclusion, "Whether the passport was planted, stolen, forged or genuine, investigators should find out the truth soon enough. But regardless of what they discover, a wider debate has now begun about the wisdom of letting so many unknown migrants enter Europe through its southern borders, and being allowed to move onwards through the continent with few restrictions. Already, there are calls to step up the policing of Greece’s maritime border with Turkey, and to block the passage of refugees entirely."

What is becoming clear is that either the passport was planted, or is a fake, or both. But while we agree that this shift in narrative will have an impact against the future flow of refugees into Europe, an even more acute consequence will from the Syrian angle will be to "incept" the idea that the entire Paris massacre was the result of events in Syria (and thus, President Bashar al Assad is directly or indirectly responsible) thus generating goodwill toward a military operation that includes a French ground force.

The latest surprise is that moments ago it was Greece again claiming that despite allegations to the contrary, the passport was, in fact, real. How it concluded this remains a mystery.

Once again we are shown that there is a deep political motive on virtually every side to use this human tragedy as a false flag event to achieve specific, geopolitical goals.