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09-19-2010, 04:42 PM
Brit Terror Suspect Held At Dutch Airport
5:45pm UK, Sunday September 19, 2010
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
Dutch military police have arrested a British terrorism suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Dutch authorities have said.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Sep/Week3/15735317.jpg Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam
Officers are investigating whether the man has links to a foreign militant organisation.
The Briton, said to be of Somali origin, was travelling from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool, via Schiphol, to Entebbe in Uganda.
The man was seized on an aircraft that was ready to depart.
"He was arrested on the tip-off from British authorities," a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's' office said.
A Dutch police official said: "We are just investigating his (the suspect's) possible involvement in a terrorist organisation.
"There was no explosive material found in his luggage."
The arrest was the third terror alert in less than a year at Schiphol, Europe's fifth-largest passenger airport.
On Christmas Day, 2009, a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with an explosive device hidden in his underwear.
He was thought to have brought the explosives through Amsterdam from Nigeria.
In August, two Yemeni men who had flown from Chicago were arrested at Schiphol after US authorities found suspicious items in their luggage.
They were later released without charges.
Schiphol Group, the airport's operator, has significantly boosted security this year in response to the Christmas incident, adding full-body scanners among other measures.
The British man was being questioned and police said they hoped to be able to release more information on Monday.
5:45pm UK, Sunday September 19, 2010
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
Dutch military police have arrested a British terrorism suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Dutch authorities have said.
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Sep/Week3/15735317.jpg Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam
Officers are investigating whether the man has links to a foreign militant organisation.
The Briton, said to be of Somali origin, was travelling from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool, via Schiphol, to Entebbe in Uganda.
The man was seized on an aircraft that was ready to depart.
"He was arrested on the tip-off from British authorities," a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's' office said.
A Dutch police official said: "We are just investigating his (the suspect's) possible involvement in a terrorist organisation.
"There was no explosive material found in his luggage."
The arrest was the third terror alert in less than a year at Schiphol, Europe's fifth-largest passenger airport.
On Christmas Day, 2009, a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with an explosive device hidden in his underwear.
He was thought to have brought the explosives through Amsterdam from Nigeria.
In August, two Yemeni men who had flown from Chicago were arrested at Schiphol after US authorities found suspicious items in their luggage.
They were later released without charges.
Schiphol Group, the airport's operator, has significantly boosted security this year in response to the Christmas incident, adding full-body scanners among other measures.
The British man was being questioned and police said they hoped to be able to release more information on Monday.