Posted on 08/30/2010 3:44:57 PM PDT by KeyLargo
ABC: Men arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport were preparing terrorist attack
Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Monica Lawrence | By Monica Lawrence
AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS) -- Two men were arrested aboard a United Airlines flight after landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Monday, ABC News reported.
The network, citing Dutch public prosecutor Ernst Koelman, said the men were arrested at the request of American authorities after the flight landed in Amsterdam. ABC said the men were subsequently charged with "preparation of a terrorist attack."
The two were allowed to board the flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Sunday night despite security concerns surrounding one of them, officials told ABC News, which identified the men as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezam al Murisi.
Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, left, and Hezem al Murisi, were taken off a United Airlines flight in the Netherlands and have been charged by Dutch police with "preparation of a terrorist attack," according to a U.S. law enforcement official. (ABC News)
“The two were allowed to board the flight at O’Hare International Airport”.
Someone needs to go to prison for allowing this!
Amish world travelers.
That is odd, they don’t look Amish.
I would be madder than hell if I or anyone from my family was on that flight.
Did somebody photoshop the moustache off of the second guy? Or did he recently shave it off to not appear as a muzzie?
Why did we let them go to Holland if they were preparing an attack? (Dutch prisons must have much better living conditions, and Obama didn’t want them to suffer?)
Of course they were.....
The two were allowed to board the flight at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Sunday night despite security concerns surrounding one of them, officials told ABC News, which identified the men as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezam al Murisi.
Our airport security seems to suck--big time.
Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezem al Murisi. Do I even have to say it?
Preparing? On a transatlantic flight with no foot-room or head-space? Just how were they supposed to prepare anything when they could hardly deploy their tray-tables because they were all pressed up against the seats in front of them? Maybe they had explosives in their shoes or their underwear but they couldn’t reach the chemical fuses because their arms were pinned to their sides by the people scrunched up next to them.
They were probably in first class.
Government screeners at their finest.
Airport security screeners in Birmingham, Alabama first stopped al Soofi and referred him to additional screening because of what officials said was his "bulky clothing." In addition, officials said, al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives. Officials said there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare.
Why the Hell do we even have a Homeland Security Dept? What a friggin' joke.
I never thought ABC News would be racist, but if they are reportunbg this, they must be.
I'll say it:
Typical ammonite names!
If they’d been whiter, they would have been stopped. Call CAIR, they’ve lost one of their turds.
They might have boarded the flight, but the individual seated next to them, or immediately behind them, was an air Marshall.
What the?
Full ABC report link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/united-flight-arrested-terror-charges-amsterdam/story?id=11517664
EVERYONE occasionally tapes their cell phones together...or to a Pepto Bismol bottle....RIGHT???? (SOMEONE should be fired over this....and this guy should NEVER have been allowed on the plane. I am so glad we do not HAVE to fly anywhere....just got back from a Mandatory flight (medical reasons) and if I had heard/read this BEFORE I left....I don't know....I would have had a HARD time flying.
NBC Nightly reported they had a pair of cell phones taped to a bottle of Pepto in their lugggage.
Good catch. It's obvious from the color of his skin where the moustache would be, that he has very recently shaved off a moustache that he's had for a long, long time.
CHICAGO — Two men, including one from Detroit, were arrested Monday morning in Amsterdam and have been charged with preparation of a terrorist attack, ABC news reported.
The report names the men as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, and Hezam al Murisi. The report does not list where Murisi is from.
Soofi first raised alarm among security officials in Birmingham, Ala., due to his “bulky clothing,” ABC News reported. Officials who searched his luggage found he was carrying $7,000 in cash, a box cutter, three large knives, a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and three cell phones taped together.
However, Soofi and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago after additional screening failed to indicate he was carrying explosives.
In that case they probably had their laptops out to prepare a powerpoint presentation about lawn care or something and some flight attendant overheard them arguing in Arabic about BULLET points and freaked out. It’s happens all the time to empty suits on aircraft who still believe that powerpoint is an effective presentation tool despite all evidence to the contrary.
One of these two groups anyway.
“The system worked”.
Ping.
The buck never got to big sis.
Instead, officials say, al Soofi was joined by the second man, Al Murisi, and boarded the United flight from Chicago to Amsterdam.
When Customs and Border officials learned al Soofi was not on the flight from Dulles to Dubai, the plane was ordered to return to the gate so his luggage could be removed. Officials said additional screening found no evidence of explosives.
Crazy!
That complete and utter FAILURE by the Birmingham screeners is so beyond moronic that it makes me wonder if they aren’t accomplices. I hope investigators will question those screeners.
And to think the public sector’s average pay outpaces the private sector nowadays.
Heard that some overseas airlines are now offering a "sedate" class. If you are willing to be sedated they have a special section that "stacks" you vertically with just an inch or so clearance to the next "sedated and stacked" pax. A nurse accompanies each flight.Check it out.
“Why the Hell do we even have a Homeland Security Dept?”
So they can frisk and embarrass your crippled grandmother!!
Let’s hear it for Thousands Standing Around. I mean, doesn’t *everybody* tape their cellphones to their bottle of Pepto? Doesn’t *everybody* carry a bottle of Pepto with cellphones taped to it in their checked luggage down in the cargo hold?
I can’t WAIT to hear the Zeroites spin this one.
}:-)4
Muzzies want to blow up transcontinental planes over U.S. and European cities on 9/11.
Those crazy Amish are at it again.-
Isn’t it maddening that all we can do is rant about such absurdities!
fyi
I would assume they let them go through because they wanted to see where they were going or who was going to meet them. Since I have had a tiny pen-knife with a 1 1/2” blade taken away from me, I don’t see how they could have let them through with the “large knives” unless it was a set-up to catch the people at the other end.
Unless the screener was in on it with them...
They look ... Middle Eastern ... perhaps ... Presbyterian? Mormon? No ...
It looks like this was a "dry run". The article even says that the TSA believes there were "mock bombs" in their luggage. One of them also did some suspicious things, like checking his baggage on one flight and then actually getting on another one.
The TSA probably gave them a little rope to see if they would incriminate someone their handler or other co-conspirators. As others have suggested, they were probably surrounded by air marshals.
These guys were on a trans-Atlantic flight and they knew exactly where they were landing. So, the US didn't need to arrest them until they might get away -- and the Dutch obliged by doing so.
In all fairness, I would have been really upset if I was on that flight. But, I think I can see why the TSA didn't collar these guys right away.
The TSA morons said that dry runs are okay as long as there are no explosives in the test devices.
Maybe a buck passed her.
Well EEE in our screwed up world currently run by libtards it is racist to think two guys with Arabic sounding names having knives, box cutter, cell phones taped together, a cell phone taped to a Pepto Bismal bottle and watches taped together were planning anything but peaceful actions in an infidel airplane.
These two schmucks shouldn’t have ever been allowed on an airplane and should have waterboarded right there in Birmingham.
That is some wacked out theology you got there guys.
I’m shocked i tell ya, Muslims, trying to commit acts of violence..I tell ya I AM STUNNED/sarc
It looks like Obama and Bloomberg are trying to hurry up and build some victory mosques soon and appease the muzzies so they won’t blow up any planes over our cities.
So for those of you playing at home, how many terrorists named “Mohamed” would this make?
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