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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: PhiKapMom

I love wisecracks. There is something very defiant, and American, about them in the face of somber events – and especially in wartime.


221 posted on 08/23/2006 3:42:28 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: dawn53

I just flew in from Amsterdam this morning. KLM tells you all cell phones must be shut off before take off . Other than that they are allowed on the plane and no one really checked if anyone was on the phone. I saw a few people "playing" with them but no one using one.


222 posted on 08/23/2006 3:49:30 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: M. Thatcher

At least make up new wisecracks and not have almost a whole page dedicated to them. If it is in breaking news, some of us would like the facts instead of wading through a ton of the same old wisecracks that lost their laughter factor sometime back!


223 posted on 08/23/2006 3:57:20 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (God Bless America and the men and women who serve in our military!)
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To: STARWISE

LOL! We should fly together. That way nobody would wake either of us up...although I will say that between the first and second Scotches, I do make a little conversation with my seatmate. Then I go to sleep.

I did get left on a night train in Spain once, no Scotch involved, simply because the motion of a train is sooooo soothing. There were four of us in the compartment, total strangers and dead to the world, when the cleaner came through and pounded on the door. We had to leap out onto the platform in Madrid dragging our baggage and one girl was still wearing the funny outfit she slept in.


224 posted on 08/23/2006 4:00:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: madison10

Mabbe IRS should just audit their "little side business selling phones" - if they dare ...


225 posted on 08/23/2006 4:05:44 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: river rat

I would pay extra for a non-muslim flight. I would pay double for a non-muslim, smoking flight.


226 posted on 08/23/2006 4:24:46 PM PDT by VA40
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To: PhiKapMom
When I returned home this evening, I checked the thread and couldn't find any new information scrolling through the thread and gave up. I figured if something really important happened, we'd hear it on FNC.

The only thing I can say that's positive is that at least the Neanderthals haven't invaded this one.
227 posted on 08/23/2006 4:42:04 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Lekker 1
I think South Asian means the old India, which includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? Any Brit Freepers out there that can confirm this?

I stand corrected.

228 posted on 08/23/2006 4:48:05 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: El Gato
Not the entire Mid East, or really technically not the Mid East at all. Rather Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and a few others.

I stand corrected.

229 posted on 08/23/2006 4:49:53 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: PhiKapMom
At least make up new wisecracks and not have almost a whole page dedicated to them. If it is in breaking news, some of us would like the facts instead of wading through a ton of the same old wisecracks that lost their laughter factor sometime back!

I hear you - sometimes it is a pain in the neck to wade through dreck. But I pray the impulse to crack wise never stops, ever.

230 posted on 08/23/2006 4:53:17 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: PhiKapMom

I couldn't agree more.


231 posted on 08/23/2006 4:54:21 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Ainast
It is possible. Items needed would be the batteries, wire, and electrical tape.

It would be easier though to carry a charged capacitor to use as a taser.

Batteries tend to put their voltage out slowly.

A capacitor will discharge in an instant.

Perhaps the phone batteries could be used to charge a high voltage capacitor for use.
232 posted on 08/23/2006 5:01:31 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: VA40

I would too! :0)


233 posted on 08/23/2006 5:02:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: madison10
There are PLENTY of "escape valve" threads on FR; nobody should come onto pure news threads and disrupt them.

As a matter of fact, there are now more threads on FR, that have nothing to do with politics or real news, no matter how hard one might try to twist them into being such, than there are on news and politics. Doubt that? Then look at the religious threads, the what's your favorite/ least favorite song, group, commercial, movie, T.V. show, animal, Sci-Fi movie, book, scene, line from a movie, brand of underwear, food to eat after you come down from a pot high and on and on and on.

Please don't even attempt to tell others just how "stressed" other people are; it doesn't wash.

234 posted on 08/23/2006 5:07:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: PhiKapMom

You're right. This thread has been trashed, from the time it was first posted, by a bunch of jerks. There's nothing funny, nor to joke about here.


235 posted on 08/23/2006 5:08:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: livius; STARWISE
I envy people who can sleep on planes....

What's your secret?

236 posted on 08/23/2006 5:11:48 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: livius

ROFL!!


237 posted on 08/23/2006 5:12:28 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: freeperfromnj
It was behavior that average passengers wouldn't do

There's a lot of that going around, among Muslims, apparently.

I wonder if they simply claim difficulty with the language, (while they threaten to sue for discrimination, of course).

For people who claim to be so unjustly persecuted, they certainly know how to push the negative attention buttons. Maybe the plan -- if there is a plan, and not simply ignorant arrogance -- is to wear down westerners with false alarms, with the result that people will be more afraid of complaining or reacting that they are of death by flaming aircraft.

238 posted on 08/23/2006 5:16:57 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: livius
you mean buggies like this?
239 posted on 08/23/2006 5:17:17 PM PDT by Kewlhand`tek (Those that can't , Teach. Those that can't teach , Report)
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To: PhiKapMom
how about this
240 posted on 08/23/2006 5:19:25 PM PDT by Kewlhand`tek (Those that can't , Teach. Those that can't teach , Report)
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