Antigua honeymoon murder

[Atash Hagmahani]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/antiguaandbarbuda/2475559/Antigua-honeymoon-murder-Parents-of-groom-agonise-over-life-support-decision.html

I have little doubt it will be covered up for the same reason that the Holloway murder was covered up: the Caribbean is a major drug transporting network, and the vacation industry is in part a cover for the activity, that also generates its own revenue. As soon as the trail leads to anybody who's anybody, it stops cold dead.

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It might also be that tourist are being targeted specifically in order to use their passports to gain entry into the country. I never understood why criminals steal people's passports. How could they possibly use them? It's somebody else's picture on the passport.

[Atash Hagmahani]

I never understood why criminals steal people's passports. How could they possibly use them? It's somebody else's picture on the passport.

At least on my passport, the picture could be CAREFULLY cut out, replaced, and re-embossed. I have no doubt the alteration could be detected, but it's a question of how easily, by whom, and in what part of the world.

Furthermore, in many countries there is a trade in "black passports", that generates income not when they are successfully used, but when they are successfully sold to the unwitting sucker who buys them.

In a different part of the world, supposedly every year a few vacationing Australians and New Zealanders go missing--permanently--their passports and identities stolen for black op's operations.