Honduras arrests five Syrians headed to US with stolen passports
 

Tegucigalpa (AFP) - Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm Wednesday in the wake of the Paris attacks launched by Syria-linked jihadists.

"Five Syrian citizens have been detained and will be taken to our offices to be investigated because it is suspected they are carrying false documents, passports stolen in Greece," a police spokesman, Anibal Baca, told reporters.

The Syrians were arrested on Tuesday as they flew into Toncontin airport serving the Honduran capital and failed to make it past airport security checks, Baca said.

They had traveled by air from Syria to Lebanon, then to Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica and then to Honduras.

From there they were to make their way to Honduras' second city of San Pedro Sula with the aim of going overland through Guatemala then Mexico and on to the United States, Baca told AFP.

The reasons for the Syrians' trip was not immediately known, and Honduran police were considering the possibility that they were refugees fleeing the war in Syria.

"We are not saying they are terrorists," Baca said. "They are being investigated for using false passports. It could be they are fleeing war. That is being investigated."

Countries involved in the Syria conflict, including the United States, have been on alert for possible attacks since the killings in Paris last Friday and the October 31 bombing of a Russian passenger jet leaving Egypt.

Both attacks have been linked to the Islamic State group based in Iraq and Syria. One of the gunmen in the Paris attacks was carrying a Syrian passport used to transit through Greece, though authorities have not confirmed that he was the man in the document.

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Iraq warned there would be attacks in France,U.S. and Italy

That's a roundabout way to get to USA.

Refugees my ass. How much would a trip like that cost?

It's only a matter of time.....

Syrians from Honduras? My ass.... lol

Indeed. All the spies and all of the intelligence will only go so far...where there is a will there is a way and they have shown that they have the will so they will find the way.

It IS only a matter of time.

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Don't you know it's racist to use logic?

I'm actually amazed it's taken so long for these guys to do an attack even in Europe much less nothing in the US yet.

If you think about it, they don't need to really do any major attacks to really disrupt things. A hand full of well trained guys could cause a lot of problems with just hand guns or rifles if they did random hit and run tactics.

Look at the DC sniper guy or even that ex cop in LA. The saving grace is these idiots are after the "big show" type of attacks which take a lot of planning. However you get some independent solo guys out there not making contact with others and they would be very hard to catch if they hit targets and ran.

It's troubling don't get me wrong but they might not even be Sunni..

I'm sure they just wanted to come here for some freedom.

There are plenty of reasons why they haven't attacked USA. One being they're afraid of the USA. another being they're more bark than bite.

There is nothing in the way whatsoever to have kept them from a parislike attack on USA.