Schiphol suspect wanted for preparing attack, arson, says lawyer

One of the two men arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Monday is suspected of preparing a terrorist attack and arson, his lawyer Klaas-Arjen Krikke says on the Telegraaf website.


The charges facing the second man are still unclear, the lawyer said.
‘I am not happy about the information which is now doing the rounds,’ Krikke told the paper. ‘My client has already been found guilty via the media in the eyes of the public.’
Chicago
The two men were arrested at the request of the US authorities on a flight from Chicago.
According to the New York Daily News, airport security screeners in Birmingham, Alabama first stopped one of the men and referred him to additional screening because of what officials said was his ‘bulky clothing’.
He was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash. A check of his luggage found a mobile phone taped to a bottle, a number of mobile phones taped together, three large knives and a number of watches.
Cleared
But there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago.
In Chicago, he was joined by another man, also a Yemeni national. The men then took a different flight from Chicago to their luggage. According to ABC, the luggage was heading for Dubai while the men flew out to Amsterdam.
One security source told ABC the men may have been making a test run to assess security controls.
In December, a Nigerian man tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam.

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