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.
The Netherlands once ruled over what is Indonesia, IIRC (Dutch East Indies).
"Sanks feddy mutch voor de rekording van de kommunikations."
You are velkom!
Don't know anything about the scanner info. See your freepmail please.
Great, you might be able to help holden in his quest for scanner frequency information.
I don't mind helping, but I know nothing about those things. If Holden can be specific I can help him translate info he needs getting those frquencies.
WHY would we give Syrians visas? It makes no sense. I don't trust the Feds when it comes to averted terror (unless THEY averted it).
An obvious reason why someone would target a NE to India flight is it would be filled with jet fuel. IF it was a terrorist (averted) act, then it may have had nothing to do with India.
Just as the 9/11 hijackers went after planes loaded with fuel...
Cell phone batteries can and do explode. They have been known to cause fire.
Is it possible that 12 batteries, put together as one unit, could start a fire that would be substantial and hard to control?
No, they could never pass the profiling.
Mennonites or Amish. Had to be.
You're right, they don't. Must been them Mennonites then, they can use modern stuff for "work" purposes... you should see some the their tractors, combines, etc. :)
Not the entire Mid East, or really technically not the Mid East at all. Rather Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and a few others.
They're getting a little modern. Their telephone service recently upgraded from smoke signals to string and tin cans.
Hopefully, no Amish will read this and get offended.
bttt
Isn't that the lamest explanation you ever heard for why the Muslims were purchasing cell phones? Maybe MEasterners get some sort of sick satisfaction in making Westerners freak out when ME get in a group.
Or Hittites.
If you're anywhere near Anchorage, check out Frontier Airlines. They "hub" out of Denver, and they're showing GREAT prices for the Chicago-Denver loop these days. (We live in the Chicago area.)
Nobody is doing that. Pakistanis are not Arabs. Additionally there are Indian nationals who are Muslim. Both Indians and Pakistanis, plus Bangladeshis who are also mostly Muslim, are called "Asians" by the Brits.
CIA says that 13.4% of the 1,095,351,995 Indians are Muslim, which would be 146,777,167 Indian Muslims. Close enough to 150,000,000.
That's good question unless they derived an explosive material or IED that can be improvised from these batteries.
Cellphone batteries contain lithium which can be highly flammable! I'm hardly an expert but, give me a dozen lithium batteries to work with and I am certain I could come up with a "problem".
BTW, remember Dell is currently recalling 4 million laptop batteries (lithium) due to numerous FIRES!
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