US believes two held by Dutch not part of terror plot
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WASHINGTON Aug 31 (Reuters) - The two Yemeni men who were detained after arriving at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport because strange items were discovered in their luggage were not likely part of a terrorist plot, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
U.S. investigators do not believe they knew each other and were not testing U.S. aviation security despite initial concerns, the official said. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Jackie Frank)
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Waves wrote:
Yeah, people from Yemen always travel carrying box cutters around on aircraft and taping multiple cell phones to empty plastic bottles. This is of course just in case all of their cell phones fall in some water so they will float. The box cutters are just in case the floating cell phones get caught in seaweed. I guess these two honest terrorists don’t know each other because they said so. As a twenty year airline pilot, I would like to shake the teeth out of whoever came up with the idiotic conclusion that these two are not terrorists. Are you kidding me?
rukiddingme001 wrote:
seriously? homeland security thinks normal travel behavior includes taping liquids and cell phones together? whatever num nut said that needs to be fired immediately.
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