12 NW passengers have been arrested

[Dirtybird12]

<p><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" size="4"><strong>Reuters: Twelve passengers have been arrested from the Northwest Airlines flight turned back to Amsterdam.</strong></font> </p><p>Looking for links - breaking news. </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by CircusFreak on 8-23-06 @ 12:36 PM</span>

[Furtherman]

<div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/23/schiphol/index.html" target="_blank">CNN confirms that 12 passengers have been arrested from the Northwest Airlines flight that was turned back to Amsterdam today.</a></div><div />

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;They each had 1 of these in their pockets...</font></strong></p><p><img height="321" src="http://www.acemart.com/graphics/00000001/products/FLAB-DF.jpg" width="255" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 8-23-06 @ 1:09 PM</span>

[Dirtybird12]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;They each had 1 of these in their pockets...</font></strong></p><p><img height="321" src="http://www.acemart.com/graphics/00000001/products/FLAB-DF.jpg" width="255" border="0" /></p><p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by bobogolem on 8-23-06 @ 1:09 PM</span> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>what kind of forktard takes a forkin fork on a plane?</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>CircusFreak</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;They each had 1 of these in their pockets...</font></strong></p><p><img height="321" src="http://www.acemart.com/graphics/00000001/products/FLAB-DF.jpg" width="255" border="0" /></p><p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by bobogolem on 8-23-06 @ 1:09 PM</span> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>what kind of forktard takes a forkin fork on a plane?</p><p>Someone who has no regard fork human life.</p>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>Apparently 68 more people are going to be arrested, making it a forkscore.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Yerdaddy]

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_airplane_diverted" target="_self">12 taken off Northwest flight questioned </a></p><p>AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Prosecutors on Thursday interrogated 12 men who were handcuffed and taken off a U.S. airliner in Amsterdam because U.S. air marshals and the crew believed they were acting suspiciously, a spokesman said. </p><p>Authorities have three days to bring the suspects before a judge to seek further detention. If they are deemed terror suspects, a judge could order them held for another 14 days without hard evidence, according to Dutch law.</p><p>Haarlem prosecutor's spokesman Ed Hartjes declined to say Thursday whether the men would face terrorism charges. &quot;The investigation is still going on and at this moment we do not know anything more than yesterday,&quot; he said.</p><p>The Bombay, India-bound Northwest Airlines flight turned around over German air space Wednesday and returned to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a group of passengers aroused suspicion by using their mobile phones following take-off, officials said.</p><p></p><p>A U.S. government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, said that crew members and air marshals observed the passengers attempting to use cell phones and passing cell phones back and forth while the airliner was taking off.</p><p>&quot;It was behavior that average passengers wouldn't do,&quot; the official said.</p><p>Passengers on the diverted flight gave varying accounts.</p><p>The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted Nitin Patel of Boston, who sat behind the men in business class, as saying, &quot;I don't know how close we were, but my gut tells me these people wanted to hijack the airplane.&quot;</p><p>Another passenger, who was not identified, told NOS television he sat next to one of the men and saw nothing suspicious.</p><p>The Dutch national anti-terrorism office said it saw no reason to raise the country's threat level.</p>