Green Energy
The incident aboard the Northwest Airliners plane was "not terror-related."
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The interrogation of 12 men who were removed from a Northwest Airlines flight after they aroused the suspicions of air marshals and crew produced no evidence of terrorism, the Justice Ministry said Thursday.
Flight NW0042 to Bombay, India, returned to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday escorted by Dutch fighter jets, and the 12 were questioned and arrested.
"So far there are no signs that this was a terrorist threat," said ministry spokeswoman Judith Sluiter.
She declined to say why the men remained under arrest, and the investigation was continuing.
Yeah, I'd love to know the answer to that question, especially since all they were, apparently, doing was playing with cell phones:
A U.S. government official said crew members and air marshals aboard the Northwest DC-10 bound for Bombay saw the passengers trying to use cell phones and passing them among themselves while the jet was taking off. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.
"It was behavior that average passengers wouldn't do," the official said.
Indian authorities don't seem so sure a terror plot was not involved:
India's junior foreign minister, Anand Sharma, confirmed that Dutch authorities have provided a list of names to Indian officials, but gave no other details.
"I don't know how close we were, but my gut tells me these people wanted to hijack the airplane," passenger Nitin Patel of Boston told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. Patel sat behind the men in business class.
The mass-circulation De Telegraaf quoted passenger Sarat Menon as saying several of the men spoke Urdu, the language commonly spoken by Indian Muslims and in Pakistan.
The thing is, in my opinion, when our government officials put an umbrella of silence over an investigation in its early stages by telling us "the incident was determined to be not terror-related," they are simply giving us the message they are not willing to deal with reality.
Now, the next thing I am going to say is important, so anyone reading this who may work in Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, or any Intelligence Dept. had better listen up:
When you tell us you are not willing to deal with the reality of terrorism, you insure that we, the common citizens will move one step closer to taking the law into our own hands.
Stop the lying.
- Fighter Jets Scramble Following Threats To Planes
Yesterday, I was in Long Beach, CA and I watched 8 straight C-17's scramble out of Long Beach Airport, and veer out towards LAX. EIGHT! That was not reported in the news. But these today, out of the New York City area are making the news. Good. ...
- Why Do You Think That Is? Could It Be The Whole Muslim World Is A Dry Run For A Terrorist Attack?
Kip Hawley, the former Transportation Security administrator, said it is not unusual to find items like watches and cell phones bound together on flights to countries like Yemen WASHINGTON – The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious...
- "joking" Qatar Diplomat Caught Smoking On Ua Flight Triggers Bomb Alert
Mohammed Yaaqob Y.M. Al-Madadi, a foreign diplomat with the Qatari Embassy in Washington D.C., got on an United Airlines 757 to Denver last night and, after having been caught smoking in the boys room, apparently thought it was funny to tell the air marshals...
- Uh? Again?
From Ace: I thought the wires were running three days late when I saw something about all passengers on a Delta/Northwest flight being taken off a plane that just landed in Detroit. A Delta/Northwest Flight 253. Repeat: Metro Airport spokesman John Witner...
- Dutch Arrest 12 On Us Plane Bound For India
Something must have been going on in this case: 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...
Green Energy
We Can All Relax Now
The incident aboard the Northwest Airliners plane was "not terror-related."
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The interrogation of 12 men who were removed from a Northwest Airlines flight after they aroused the suspicions of air marshals and crew produced no evidence of terrorism, the Justice Ministry said Thursday.
Flight NW0042 to Bombay, India, returned to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday escorted by Dutch fighter jets, and the 12 were questioned and arrested.
"So far there are no signs that this was a terrorist threat," said ministry spokeswoman Judith Sluiter.
She declined to say why the men remained under arrest, and the investigation was continuing.
Yeah, I'd love to know the answer to that question, especially since all they were, apparently, doing was playing with cell phones:
A U.S. government official said crew members and air marshals aboard the Northwest DC-10 bound for Bombay saw the passengers trying to use cell phones and passing them among themselves while the jet was taking off. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.
"It was behavior that average passengers wouldn't do," the official said.
Indian authorities don't seem so sure a terror plot was not involved:
India's junior foreign minister, Anand Sharma, confirmed that Dutch authorities have provided a list of names to Indian officials, but gave no other details.
"I don't know how close we were, but my gut tells me these people wanted to hijack the airplane," passenger Nitin Patel of Boston told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. Patel sat behind the men in business class.
The mass-circulation De Telegraaf quoted passenger Sarat Menon as saying several of the men spoke Urdu, the language commonly spoken by Indian Muslims and in Pakistan.
The thing is, in my opinion, when our government officials put an umbrella of silence over an investigation in its early stages by telling us "the incident was determined to be not terror-related," they are simply giving us the message they are not willing to deal with reality.
Now, the next thing I am going to say is important, so anyone reading this who may work in Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, or any Intelligence Dept. had better listen up:
When you tell us you are not willing to deal with the reality of terrorism, you insure that we, the common citizens will move one step closer to taking the law into our own hands.
Stop the lying.
- Fighter Jets Scramble Following Threats To Planes
Yesterday, I was in Long Beach, CA and I watched 8 straight C-17's scramble out of Long Beach Airport, and veer out towards LAX. EIGHT! That was not reported in the news. But these today, out of the New York City area are making the news. Good. ...
- Why Do You Think That Is? Could It Be The Whole Muslim World Is A Dry Run For A Terrorist Attack?
Kip Hawley, the former Transportation Security administrator, said it is not unusual to find items like watches and cell phones bound together on flights to countries like Yemen WASHINGTON – The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious...
- "joking" Qatar Diplomat Caught Smoking On Ua Flight Triggers Bomb Alert
Mohammed Yaaqob Y.M. Al-Madadi, a foreign diplomat with the Qatari Embassy in Washington D.C., got on an United Airlines 757 to Denver last night and, after having been caught smoking in the boys room, apparently thought it was funny to tell the air marshals...
- Uh? Again?
From Ace: I thought the wires were running three days late when I saw something about all passengers on a Delta/Northwest flight being taken off a plane that just landed in Detroit. A Delta/Northwest Flight 253. Repeat: Metro Airport spokesman John Witner...
- Dutch Arrest 12 On Us Plane Bound For India
Something must have been going on in this case: 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...