Agency to step up collection of anti-terrorism information
ROC Central News Agency
2011/05/02 18:02:41
Taipei, May 2 (CNA) The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Monday that it would step up collection of anti-terrorism information after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.
The NIA said it has asked its 28 overseas offices to step up the collection and exchange of anti-terrorism information and share it with related government agencies.
Also, the NIA will pass on information to third countries if individuals considered to be "suspicious" make transit stops in Taiwan, the agency said.
The move followed the world's heightened alert to the possibility of terrorist attacks to avenge bin Laden's death.
The NIA said checks of arriving passengers at airport immigration will be as strict as in the past, but even more important will be to "stop terrorism outside the country's borders," the agency said.
According to NIA officials, the most common problem encountered in anti-terrorism security checks at airports is when suspects are found carrying multiple passports or having only out-of-date photos of potential suspects that are hard to match against those in travelers' passports.
In such cases, the agency will have to rely on information collected overseas, the NIA said. (By Johnson Sun and Lilian Wu) enditem/ls
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