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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: gcruse

When my Navy ship was on station in the Persian Gulf in the early 1990s, my crew and I were awarded the Southwest Asia Service Medal. So referring to middle easterners as "south Asian" is not at all farfetched.


161 posted on 08/23/2006 12:39:42 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: holden; Coop; knighthawk

Here's a sound clip of Dutch ground control communications regarding the U.S. Northwest Airlines plane on approach to Schiphol/ Netherlands.


http://fmc.dotnet-services.nl/waves/nw42_intercept.wav


162 posted on 08/23/2006 12:40:37 PM PDT by bwteim (bwteim: Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: ketelone

I've been on the AMS-DEL also.


163 posted on 08/23/2006 12:47:10 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Next thing you know, all terrorists will be referred to as "earth citizen".

They may be on earth, but they certainly are not citizens...

164 posted on 08/23/2006 12:54:42 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: WesternPacific

Considering they were talking about appearance, it may be hard to know their religion. Pakistanis and other South Asian Muslims are not Arabs, nor do they look like them.


165 posted on 08/23/2006 1:10:35 PM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: bwteim

That was neat, very interesting. Thanks for posting - I never know what goes on up there in the cockpit. I just get on, order a couple of drinks, go to sleep, and wake up wherever I planned to go...thank you, pilots!


166 posted on 08/23/2006 1:17:21 PM PDT by livius
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To: evets

LOL!


167 posted on 08/23/2006 1:23:57 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW ISLAM ARE KORANIMALS!)
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To: livius

You are welcome. You hear ground control and the F-16 pilots, part of the communications from the F-16 pilots is in secure mode, according to the source. The Northwest 42 dumped kerosene over the IJsselmeer. The F-16s came from the airbase at Leeuwarden.


169 posted on 08/23/2006 1:26:37 PM PDT by bwteim (bwteim: Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: bwteim
Sanks feddy mutch voor de rekording van de kommunikations.

Was this recorded from a multi-frequency scanner? I seem to be hearing multiple controllers, which I didn't think they would normally do. (Of course, what has this to do with normal?)

There is, of course coded info, which is probably part of why the pilot was most comfortable returning to AMS. Some of the really short bursts went right by me. Do you know of a complete transcription anywhere yet?

Bedankt,
HF

170 posted on 08/23/2006 1:26:46 PM PDT by holden (holden on'a'na truth, de whole truth, 'n nuttin' but de truth)
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To: bwteim
The Northwest 42 dumped kerosene over the IJsselmeer. The F-16s came from the airbase at Leeuwarden.

That's probably why I have a couple of drinks when I get on (a trans-Atlantic flight). I put my eyeshades on, commend myself to God's mercy, and go to sleep...

171 posted on 08/23/2006 1:32:40 PM PDT by livius
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To: Peach

"....arresting 12 passengers on one flight is a huge deal, imo."

It would seem so, unless you consider that Dutch Law is also used in Aruba, where we have seen countless "arrests".....so "arrest" (alone) really doesn't mean very much under Dutch law as compared to many countries. IIRC, Dutch law allows anyone to be arrested and held for up to 14 days minimum upon "suspicion" alone, no probable cause being necessary


172 posted on 08/23/2006 1:33:47 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

excerpt from Reuters update..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/ts_nm/security_airlines_dutch_dc


"They were not paying attention to what the flight attendents were saying," an unnamed female passenger said on NOS television.


173 posted on 08/23/2006 1:40:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: areafiftyone

Hot-headed Catholic Nuns, no doubt.


174 posted on 08/23/2006 1:41:29 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: areafiftyone

I hope that the Dutch give these guys a proper punishment. Subject them all to the dreaded Dutch Oven.


175 posted on 08/23/2006 1:43:29 PM PDT by Axhandle (The sun feels good on my baboon heart.)
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To: mware

yep. that is true.


176 posted on 08/23/2006 1:46:17 PM PDT by PghBaldy (CNN on Castro - Intestinal Crisis 2006: A People Mourn.)
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To: Axhandle

LOL ala Hansel and Gretel!


177 posted on 08/23/2006 1:47:24 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: albee

Britain has many Pakistanis, becuase of their colonial history in India/Pakistan.


178 posted on 08/23/2006 1:52:02 PM PDT by PghBaldy (CNN on Castro - Intestinal Crisis 2006: A People Mourn.)
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To: bwteim

Cool! I am listening to it now.


179 posted on 08/23/2006 1:53:13 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: KC Burke

Thanks, seems 12 people were arrested.


180 posted on 08/23/2006 1:53:56 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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