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Prompted by the failed London & Glasgow bombings,
Interpol's chief Ronald Noble is pulling no punches.
In an unprecedented criticism,
the police chief described the counter-terror effort as
"in the wrong century".
Britain & Australia are accused of
leaving the door open to terrorists because
border officials are not checking the passports of all visitors
against Interpol's database of 7,000,000 lost & stolen passports.
Only 17 countries in the world electronically
check all visitors' passports against the the database.
They include Switzerland, France, Spain
and the countries of the Carribean,
but not Australia or the UK.
Ronald Noble says Switzerland is a good example of
the power of the system.
The Swiss check the passports of 300,000 visitors a month against
the global database.
Some 100 a month come back as stolen, lost or forged.
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