U.S. concerned by number of S. African passports held by terrorists
U.S. intelligence and security officials are stepping up scrutiny of all South African passport holders following the disclosure that a key Al Qaida operative was using a South African passport for travel.
The stepped up surveillance followed disclosure in early June that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the Al Qaida terrorists linked to U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya in 1998 carried a South African passport.