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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: Coop
No. I've seen it other places too. Something happens and before an investigation is complete, we hear "not terrorist related" I can't remember who, (so much has been happening lately) but I heard an official report last week of, "no indication of terrorism at this time, but we are investigating". Much better IMO.
81 posted on 08/23/2006 10:45:58 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Coop

That "debunking" has long since been itself debunked.


82 posted on 08/23/2006 10:47:59 AM PDT by RSteyn
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To: CindyDawg
"no indication of terrorism at this time, but we are investigating".

That's a standard reply. And it's almost always appropriate. Unless one tends to believe the government's trying to sweep everything under the rug.

83 posted on 08/23/2006 10:49:10 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Quilla

Annie Jacobsen's book is Terror in the Skies, published by Spence Publishing


84 posted on 08/23/2006 10:49:25 AM PDT by 1662BCP
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To: CindyDawg

They were mormons and all 11 wives wanted to talk to hubby at the same, hence the phone handoff. Now move along!!!!


85 posted on 08/23/2006 10:51:19 AM PDT by hondo1951 (i live in happy valley, but i'm not happy)
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To: Quilla

The name of Annie Jacobsen's book is "Terror in the Skies". I found it to be QUITE compelling!


86 posted on 08/23/2006 10:51:27 AM PDT by battletank
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To: standingfirm
"An anonymous caller to KQRS in Minneapolis (home of NWA)said this was a serious incident. There were 12 middle eastern men on the flight. 11 got up from their seats and handed their cell phones to one guy. That's when 2 air marshalls intervened and the airplane was routed back to Amsterdam."

There is no longer any reason to allow anyone who is Islamic to fly.

87 posted on 08/23/2006 10:53:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: Forrestfire; areafiftyone

<< Norwegen tourists no doubt. >>

Rampaging Lapps and Finns?


88 posted on 08/23/2006 10:53:46 AM PDT by Brian Allen ("Moral issues are always terribly complex, for someone without principles." - G K Chesterton)
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To: Deo volente
I forget, do the Amish use cell phones?

The very strictest, no. The younger generation(under 40) will use them but they aren't allowed to actually own them. The owning belongs to young males that get automatically ejected from the Amish church at 18. They live a "western" lifestyle, drive(mostly to drive Amish around) and do everything we would do. When they find a girl and marry her in the Amish church, they renounce all of that and go back to living like Amish.

I worked for a number of years in the Lumber business in Holmes county Ohio. I knew many Amish, most were Harvey and/or a Miller :).

89 posted on 08/23/2006 10:53:58 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: RSteyn
Then you should have no problem debunking the Snopes response (and Wikipedia response, and Time magazine article, a Wash Times piece, etc.) Good luck!

And I forget who asked earlier, but her book is entitled Terror in the Skies: Why 9-11 Could Happen Again .

90 posted on 08/23/2006 10:54:24 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: EternalHope

I wondered about their take on it. I read her book and I thought it was compelling.


91 posted on 08/23/2006 10:54:43 AM PDT by morans14
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To: battletank

I re-read it about a week ago. There isn't anything vague or fluff-headed about it. She merely reported something that apparently isn't that rare at all.


92 posted on 08/23/2006 10:55:53 AM PDT by RSteyn
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To: Coop

She does a pretty good job of defending herself in the book. She doesn't need me.


93 posted on 08/23/2006 10:57:51 AM PDT by RSteyn
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To: hondo1951

Maybe they all belonged to one woman and she wanted to talk with # 12, who had left his phone at home :')


94 posted on 08/23/2006 10:58:11 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Deo volente

Some do use cordless phones. They keep the chargers and the phone lines connected to a "shack" at the end of the lane since they are not allowed to have wires attached to their houses.

I understand that this is at the discretion of the local Elders who have a lot of say in what is/is not allowed locally.

I got this information from a Mennonite friend whose father used to be Amish. His brothers and sisters now treat him like he had converted to satanism.


95 posted on 08/23/2006 11:00:48 AM PDT by OSHA (Lose money FAST playing penny stocks. Ask me how!)
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To: RSteyn
You're the one who brought it up. If it's been thoroughly debunked, then debunk it. Here, let me help.

One-way tickets? True. But they were already booked on JetBlu for a follow-on flight.

Expired visas? Yes, except for the one fellow who was a U.S. citizen.

Ignored by authorities? Utterly false. Something like 4-5 different agencies interviewed these men.

If the air marshals agreed with Ms. Jacobsen, I'd be concerned. They did not; I am not.

96 posted on 08/23/2006 11:01:38 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Lazamataz
There is no longer any reason to allow anyone who is Islamic to fly.

Indeed. If they want to go back to the 7th century, let them walk or ride horses or sail dhows. Whay let Moslems use any modern form of transportation at all? Railways are an instrument of the infidel, no more of those either. Nothing like shanks mare or riding an ass to help them get perspective.

97 posted on 08/23/2006 11:02:41 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: albee

No no.. incorrect. In britspeak, Asian, and South Asian mean the same thing. Indian or Pakistani.


98 posted on 08/23/2006 11:04:22 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: blu

Is that breakaway sect of Zoroastrans at it AGAIN!!?? :-)


99 posted on 08/23/2006 11:04:25 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: areafiftyone

It's those Serbs/Slavs again.
(/sarcasm)


100 posted on 08/23/2006 11:04:37 AM PDT by VOA
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