Phew...it was nothing..../sarcasm
False bomb alarm on train disrupts Amsterdam traffic
Two men wearing traditional Islamic clothes were arrested on a train bound from Frankfurt to Amsterdam Tuesday after a scare over a suspicious package, police said.
The men were arrested after the train came to an emergency stop near Amsterdam's central station in the late afternoon, but the package was harmless, Amsterdam police spokesman Gerard Vrooland said.
Passengers had alerted police after seeing the two-Dutch speaking men pacing the car and visiting the bathroom together.
"They were acting strangely, and they made people nervous by the way they behaved, coming and going to the bathroom together and carrying a large backpack," Vrooland said.
Television images showed the young men being escorted from the train with their faces obscured by masks placed by police to protect their identity. They were released after interrogation, Vrooland said.
Eastbound train traffic from Amsterdam was halted most of Tuesday afternoon while bomb squads investigated the backpack. Passengers were evacuated from the train.
The incident came on the eve of first anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic radical, which a court ruled was an act of terrorism.
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=92762
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"False bomb alarm on train disrupts Amsterdam traffic"
The Associated Press, Nov. 1, 2005
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two men wearing traditional Islamic clothes were arrested on a train bound from Frankfurt to Amsterdam Tuesday after a scare over a suspicious package, police said.
The men were arrested after the train came to an emergency stop near Amsterdam's central station in the late afternoon, but the package was harmless, Amsterdam police spokesman Gerard Vrooland said.
Passengers had alerted police after seeing the two-Dutch speaking men pacing the car and visiting the bathroom together.
"They were acting strangely, and they made people nervous by the way they behaved, coming and going to the bathroom together and carrying a large backpack," Vrooland said."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "They were released after interrogation, Vrooland said."