Update on Dutch Flight
12 ARRESTED IN US PLANE TURN BACK: DUTCH AGENCY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688688/posts
Over Half of TSA Screeners at One Airport Fail Screening Test
Over 50 percent of Transportation Security Officers at Orlando's International Airport have failed tests that determine whether a bomb is in a passenger's bag, according to aviation sources. (snip)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/over_half_of_ts.html
Thanks freeperfromnj for this update link:
Note: The following pos is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688688/posts
12 ARRESTED IN US PLANE TURN BACK: DUTCH AGENCY
Yahoooo News via Reuters ^ | 8/23/06
Posted on 08/23/2006 9:47:09 AM PDT by areafiftyone
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, news agency ANP reported.
ANP quoted a police spokesman as saying 12 were arrested, but declined to give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
Police officials were not immediately available to comment.
The Dutch Defense Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back after the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai were behaving suspiciously.
Security has been increased at airports worldwide in the last two weeks after British police said they had foiled a plot by British Muslims to blow up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as drinks.
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Also ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688688/posts?page=162#162
http://fmc.dotnet-services.nl/waves/nw42_intercept.wav
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22230_Dutch_Plane_Incident
(August 23, 2006)
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/08/arrest_of_12_passengers_on_net.php
"Arrest of 12 Passengers on Netherlands-India Flight Merits Further" Investigation
By Walid Phares
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "1. All twelve were using their cell phones after the plane took off. You never see an entire group of passengers engage in such flagrantly illegal behavior. Were they talking with each other and with others at their destination?"
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1921043.cms&scoring=d
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OFF TOPIC - Separate Incident:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401905&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
"Asian students' shock at ejection from jet by passenger mutiny"
11:17am 23rd August 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Manchester Umist students Sohail Ashraf and Khurram Zeb, both 22, said they sympathised with nervous travellers, but urged people not to be paranoid about Muslims.
"We might be Asian, but we're two ordinary lads who wanted a bit of fun," Mr Ashraf told the Daily Mirror.
"Just because we're Muslim does not mean we are suicide bombers."
The pair were marched off the jet at gunpoint after fellow passengers alerted officials on the flight back from Malaga, Spain."