Two arrested at Schiphol on terror charges after flight from Chicago

Dutch police are questioning two men arrrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.


The arrests were made on Monday at the request of the US authorities after suspicious objects were found in their luggage.
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.
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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