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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."
'Something very suspicious' causes Island beach closure (FL)
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/15337130.htm
DEFENSEnews.com (REUTERS, BERLIN): "GERMANY PROBES POSSIBLE TERRORIST LINKS TO BOMBS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One of the bombs was discovered in an abandoned suitcase at a train station in Dortmund, which hosted some of last month's World Cup matches.") (August 1, 2006)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=1866#1866
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/15344027.htm
Posted on Wed, Aug. 23, 2006
"Passenger describes scene aboard diverted plane"
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
JIM GEHRZ, Minneapolis Star Tribune
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Among the 149 passengers aboard Northwest Flight NO0042 was Tim Nelson, the tipster who first alerted the FBI to al Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui's odd behavior at a Minneapolis area flight school five years ago.
WASHINGTON - A Northwest Airlines plane flying from Amsterdam to India was escorted back to the airport by Dutch F-16 fighter jets Wednesday, and police arrested 12 passengers whose behavior had aroused the crew's suspicion.
Coincidentally, among the 149 passengers aboard Northwest Flight NO0042 was the tipster who first alerted the FBI to al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui's odd behavior at a Minneapolis-area flight school five years ago."
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UPDATE...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210242,00.html
AP
"Prosecutors Take Case of 12 Men Arrested on Northwest Flight"
Thursday, August 24, 2006
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands —