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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Terrorist suspect arrested at Schiphol airport..[ 1824 ]

British terrorism suspect arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport

Dutch police have arrested a terrorism suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the local prosecutor's office said.

 


Dutch police have arrested a terrorism suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the local prosecutor's office said.
The British citizen, who is of Somali decent, was en-route from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda Photo: EPA

The man was from Liverpool, travellling via Schiphol, en route to Entebbe in Uganda. The Somali Briton was already on the plane when he was arrested by military police.
"He was arrested on the tip-off from British authorities," a Dutch spokesman said.

Telegraph co.uk., by Our Foreign Staff
Published: 4:49PM BST 19 Sep 2010

National police spokesman Rene Claessen said the man was arrested before a flight took off from the airport Sunday.
Amsterdam has a history of being used as a transport hub by suspected Islamic radicals
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a suspected al Qaeda member, is facing charges of trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam as it prepared to land in Detroit with 278 people on board last December.
He is accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. The explosives failed, though they burned Abdulmutallab, who was arrested.
The Somali-born British man was held on suspicion of terrorism as he transited through Amsterdam's Schiphol airport en route from England to Uganda, prosecutors said.
"At this moment, an inquiry is trying to determine whether or not the man belongs to a foreign terrorist organisation," said a source in the prosecutor's office.
Amsterdam's airport has significantly beefed up its security meassures since Christmas Day, after it was a departure point for a Nigerian student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly tried to blow up a plane above the United States by setting off explosives hidden in his underwear.
He was tackled by passangers and crew, and is now charged in U.S. federal court in Detroit with attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 278 passengers and 11 crew members aboard. Abdulmutallab insists on representing himself.
Last month, two Yemeni men were arrested at the Amsterdam airport after flying in from Chicago, on suspicion they may have been conducting a dry run for an airline terror attack. The two were held for several days then released without charge after an investigation turned up no evidence to link them to a terror plot.
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