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.
How does Jacobson know they were prearranged positions?
Sleep deprivation and charter membership in the Olympic Sleeping Team .. ;).
BTW, I never drink on flights ... I'm comatose naturally...LOL.
Oh thanks....you're just not going to give up the secret recipe, right? :(
Could we maybe come up with some fresh jokes?
Fresh? Fresh? If our jokes were any fresher, they'd be
insulting.
I'm in the industry... for now. It hasn't been easy.
Lots of nutty miserable Muslims live in Norway.
What can I say? I naturally doze when the engines are purring.
The Dutch can't scratch their own ass! They love putting the old and sick to death, allow drug addicts to ruin their country, and they smile at terrorists! F*ck'em!
exactly why I haven't been around lately. Very little real news. And goodness knows I love the smartalec stuff, too, but on the right thread.
Sorry for late reply. Her voice is quite clear. Don't know composition of their armed services compared to other European countries in terms of percent female / male.
As I noted above, I understand that. But this is the second article in a matter of a couple of weeks where the term "Asian" seems to have been applied to Arab Muslims. It is when the term is applied to Arab Muslims that I feel that it is dishonest.
Gee, thanks for pinging me to this....lol.
I read the article earlier today but didn't read the comments. They're lame, huh?
I understand. My wife is South East Asian and she is Catholic.
I agree with the stale humor, but the following does call for Twilite zone music....
"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."
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/15344027.htm
And this is description of men:
Nelson said he watched Dutch police come aboard in threes and escort a dozen men, 10 of them appearing to be of Pakistani or Middle Eastern descent, from the plane one by one in a remote parking area at the airport.
"Some they handcuffed before they took them out," he said. "One guy was a white guy, with a tie-dyed shirt, a beard and dreadlocks. He looked like a hippie. There was an older man who appeared to be of Indian descent."
A few of the others had beards, and some were dressed in shalwar kameez - traditional long shirts and baggy pants, Nelson said.
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/15344027.htm
A clear case of profiling!! What are we going to do with these air marshalls? /s
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