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.
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...
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