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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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; amsterdam; cellphones; derkaderkaderka; flight42; holland; india; macacas; mumbai; netherlands; nwa; nwaflt42; southasians; thenetherlands
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To: Blogger

Indonesia is in Southeast Asia.


101 posted on 08/23/2006 11:05:03 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: VOA

When it IS confirmed the 12 men arrested off of that plane, in Dutch custody for three days, are in fact members of the RELIGION OF PEACE, ISLAM, would somebody please ping me on FR ... so I can feign surprise? :p


102 posted on 08/23/2006 11:07:31 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A few clever bones tossed on gay unions, flag burning & Iraq still don't absolve GWB over BORDERS)
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To: Blogger

I got that answer a couple of days ago to my similar question, but I STILL think it is dishonest to call Arab Muslims "Asians". It makes it sound like we're (unfairly) profiling Japanese or something. . .(grumble, grumble).


103 posted on 08/23/2006 11:07:51 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield..)
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To: Blogger

India has the second largest Muslim population in the world, i.e., approximately 135 million.


104 posted on 08/23/2006 11:08:30 AM PDT by kabar
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To: areafiftyone

diversion


105 posted on 08/23/2006 11:09:12 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: Forrestfire

Perhpas a chess team?


106 posted on 08/23/2006 11:10:28 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Right now, I'm wondering if the Islamofascists have a sexual obsession with cell phones?



Upskirt pictures maybe?????


107 posted on 08/23/2006 11:13:39 AM PDT by WKB (If I send you a blank reply that means I have nothing else to say to you.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
...so I can feign surprise?

Better start practicing now.

108 posted on 08/23/2006 11:13:43 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: areafiftyone

A cursory glance at the passengers (these 12)'s passports would reveal if they were Hindu Indian citizens.

If such were the case, its unlikely to say the least, that they would have been arrested.

Be prepared for the media to sweep under the rugs the "startling" fact, that these arrestees are in all likelihood peaceful adherents of the creed of Mad Mo.


109 posted on 08/23/2006 11:15:38 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: areafiftyone

Does Helen Thomas suspect that Karl Rove got the Dutch police to do this as US election year stunt?


110 posted on 08/23/2006 11:16:01 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: kabar

I knew it was a large minority there.


111 posted on 08/23/2006 11:16:33 AM PDT by Blogger (http://www.propheteuon.com)
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To: Dante3

Hey is anyone keeping up with those reporters missing in Gaza, well, well, want to bet that some of those nice terrorists over there have them, and that sooner or later they going to be dead, also I wonder if they thought they might have Shep Smith???? unreal what is going on today in this old world, Guess GW was right, they are going to come after us now, that Israel lost that war


112 posted on 08/23/2006 11:17:04 AM PDT by Amanda75 (Amanda75)
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To: standingfirm
The podcast of the call is posted here.

The call starts about 2:45 into part 2 of this mornings show.

http://92kqrs.com/streaming.asp

113 posted on 08/23/2006 11:18:56 AM PDT by toast
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To: Amanda75

Let me guess. You're a glass-half-empty person.


114 posted on 08/23/2006 11:19:32 AM PDT by Blogger (http://www.propheteuon.com)
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To: Amanda75

When did he say that?


115 posted on 08/23/2006 11:20:18 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Coop

Actually, the authorities lied. They briefly (less than 15 minutes) spoke to 2 of the 14 men, and then released them all. The ICE never spoke to them. They told Jacobsen that they verified that these men were musicians and that they were followed to their hotel. That never happened. Curiously, the musicians could never be found again, even when an offer was extended to perform on network television.

If you believe Jacobsen is just a silly woman with time on her hands, do you also believe the man found trying to remove paneling in a plane lavatory to reach the flight deck was merely trying his hand at re-decorating? That Richard Reid was pulling up his socks? That all of this is just overreaction to non-threats? And why?


116 posted on 08/23/2006 11:20:39 AM PDT by RSteyn
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To: mware

Yep, the really retarded thing being that the Taj Mahal is a muzzie site. I'm sure it's a huge tourist money maker, though. That makes it a target.


117 posted on 08/23/2006 11:21:01 AM PDT by watchin (Facts irritate liberals)
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To: evets

Can't we all just get along?


118 posted on 08/23/2006 11:22:23 AM PDT by pepperdog
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To: freeperfromnj

That has been his talk all this week, every speech, he is telling everyone they if we leave Iraq it will cause complete meltdown, listen up


119 posted on 08/23/2006 11:24:04 AM PDT by Amanda75 (Amanda75)
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To: P8riot

You wouldn't have been able to stop yourselves!


120 posted on 08/23/2006 11:24:54 AM PDT by watchin (Facts irritate liberals)
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