Plane Crazy: Questioning continues of detained Amsterdam plane passengers
Authorities continued Tuesday to question two men held in the Netherlands after landing on a flight from Chicago, Illinois, Dutch prosecutors told CNN.
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The men were still being held at Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport Tuesday, said Martijn Boelhouwer, a spokesman for Dutch prosecutors. He would not say if they had been charged or why they were taken into custody. On Monday, a U.S. law enforcement source said the men may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked baggage. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday they were arrested after "suspicious items" in their luggage raised concern. "The items were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves, and as we share information with our international partners, Dutch authorities were notified of the suspicious items," the U.S. agency said. "This matter continues to be under investigation." Those items were an empty shampoo bottle with watches attached to it and an empty bottle of a stomach medicine with mobile phones attached, according to the U.S. law enforcement source, who has been briefed on the investigation. That has raised concern that the men may have been testing a future terrorist plot, the source said. Attempts to sneak liquid explosives aboard jetliners were at the heart of a 2006 plot broken up by British authorities. |
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