Dutch police arrest 2 terror suspects on flight
Washington: Police in Amsterdam arrested two men who came in on a flight from Chicago. The two men have been charged with preparing a terror attack.
Reports said the men were arrested "at the request of American authorities," and the investigation is still going on.
The men have been identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezam al-Murisi. Soofi is reportedly from Yemen. The men were apparently allowed to board a United Airlines flight from Chicago, Illinois to Amsterdam despite a slew of security concerns, beginning in Birmingham, Alabama, where Soofi appears to have started his journey.
He was reportedly stopped at the airport, where the screening process was on, because of his "bulky clothing." The airport authorities discovered he was carrying 7,000 dollars in cash, and then opened his luggage, ABC News said.
There they found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together and several watches taped together, but because no explosives were discovered, he was cleared for the flight to Chicago.
Once at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, he is suspected to have checked his luggage on a flight bound for Yemen, with scheduled stops in both Washington's Dulles Airport and Dubai. But he did not board the flight.
Instead, he was joined by Murisi, ABC said, and the duo boarded a flight to Amsterdam.
The flight carrying Soofi's luggage reportedly travelled to Washington's Dulles airport, from where it was about to depart to Dubai and then on to Yemen when officials learned his bags were on board but he was not.
The plane was ordered to return to the gate, where the baggage was removed, though officials said no explosives were detected. Soofi and Murisi were detained when their flight arrived in Amsterdam.
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