1.   Thieves can sell stolen passports for a lot of money.

2.   Immigration officials checked up on him and found that he was using a stolen passport.

3.   And the inspector general found that the INS is not systematically collecting and reporting missing passport information so authorities can be alerted when someone uses a stolen passport.

4.   As for the stolen passports, they quickly vanish into the criminal underground.

5.   But the door was closed and locked, with no one in sight to replace her stolen passport in time for her Saturday flight overseas.

6.   DeFazio said Dr. Witterschein was also charged Thursday night with trying to use the stolen passport to cash forged checks.

7.   Extrapolating from that sample, the auditors suggested that thousands of people might have misused stolen passports in this way.

8.   He would keep the cash, run up the credit cards and sell any stolen passports.

9.   He used the stolen passport of a dead man named Mukhit Laipanov.

10.   Officials at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington said that up to five of the hijackers carried stolen passports and false identities.