Posted on 08/23/2006 9:22:09 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods
Amsterdam, Aug. 23 (AP): Dutch police arrested 12 passengers who aroused the crew's suspicion on a U.S. airline flight to India after it returned on Wednesday to Amsterdam escorted by two F-16 jet fighters, a spokesman said.
Police spokesman Rob Staenacker said he could not disclose the nationalities of the people taken from the Northwest DC-10 after it was diverted over German airspace, or the nature of the suspicions against them.
``I can tell you 12 people have been arrested,'' he said.
It was not immediately clear if they had been charged.
An American passenger, who identified herself only as Alpa, told AP Television News that she saw about a dozen people taken off the aircraft in handcuffs who appeared to be of South Asian origin.
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These men had to know they would cause an incident and be arrested. What were they up to?
I heard 11 of them handed their cell phones to the 12th one, but nothing more than that.
The thread earlier today about the guy who told security his penis pump was a bomb was funny!
I had a ticket booked on Pan Am Flight 103 for the week after it exploded over Lockerbie. I was visiting the parents (military) on college break for the holidays in Belgium. That still sobers me even today.
I still have the SATO printout somewhere around here.
Some of the passengers pulled out cell phones during the flight and appeared to be trying to pass the cell phones to other passengers, a U.S. government official said.
In addition, some passengers unfastened their seatbelts while the light requiring they be fastened was still illuminated, the official said.
That was enough for U.S. air marshals aboard the DC-10 to break their cover. Flight attendants ordered the passengers to heed the orders of the marshals, the official added.
There was no intelligence indicating the flight was at risk, and authorities are still evaluating how much of a threat the passengers posed, officials said.
The passengers who were arrested were looking into plastic bags and were busy with their cell phones...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/23/schiphol/
Roger that. But don't hold your breath. As M Savage says, "political correctness is political cowardice." Our leaders are cowards.
Good for the air marshalls
That is exactly what they are trained to do and there is no room for horseplay on planes anymore.
Is it time to play Cowboys and Muslims?
---An American passenger, who identified herself only as Alpa, told AP Television News that she saw about a dozen people taken off the aircraft in handcuffs who appeared to be of South Asian origin.---
Ahab, the Arab? What kind of American would describe anyone as being of "South Asian origin"?
I'm betting Indonesia. High number of Muslims, and a lot of Dutch influence.
Agreed, the incidents are intentional. Probing of defenses, war games, dry runs, call them what you like. Perhaps even a coordinated attempt to ruin the airline industry without even perpetrating attacks.
This is intentional.
It may be a planned practice for the live run in the near future.
Bingo.
The article doesn't clearly specify the ethnic background of the twelve people arrested. I'm guessing they were elderly Lutheran ladies from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Multiple Choice Test
1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a man from Palestine between 17 and 40 years old.
2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 90 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
13. In July of 2005, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
add the USS Cole, Nick Berg's beheading and the Barcelona bombings...plus
May 13,1981, 23-year-old Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II three times.
Sgt. Hasan Akbar is accused of stealing the grenades and attacking fellow members of the 101st just days into the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. In addition to the two people killed, 14 soldiers were injured.
and John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, The DC snipers.
Yup, from the passenger manifest: Smith, Williams, Jones, O'Leary, Duncan, Howell, Robertson, etc.
You get enough people doin' that, how much you wanna' bet they start bookin' Greyhounds?
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