Terror Links to Stolen Passports Unlikely, Jet Inquiry Finds
SEPANG,
Malaysia — International police authorities said on Tuesday that two
Iranians known to have used stolen passports to board the Malaysia
Airlines jet that disappeared on Saturday were unlikely to be linked to
terrorist groups, echoing an assessment by the Malaysian police that one
of them was a 19-year-old Iranian who wanted to migrate to Germany.
The
19-year-old Iranian passenger, Pouria Nourmohammadi Mehrdad, who was
using a stolen Austrian passport, was traveling to Germany, where he was
to meet his mother, said Khalid Abu Bakar, the inspector general of the
Malaysian police.
“We are in contact with his mother,” Mr. Khalid said at a news conference.
Interpol
identified the second Iranian traveler as Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza,
29, who used a stolen Italian passport, and released a photograph of the
two men boarding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at the same time.
