I figured this would be questionable, when the US let them go. Dutch authorities arrested two Yemeni men yesterday after a flight to Amsterdam from the United States are suspected of conspiring to commit a terrorist act. But the US says there is no evidence of a terrorist link in the case. Both were taken into custody Sunday night after arriving on a United Airlines flight from Chicago with suspicious items in their luggage.
They have been identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezam al-Murisi.
Some law enforcement sources said the men may have been on a so-called “dry run” practice mission for a future attack. But at least one U.S. official, who did not want to be named, said this is not the case and that the men did not even know each other. Voa
The items in question includes cellphones, watches and $7,000 in cash. The items were detected by airport security agents in the United States. But teh US authorities let them continue on their trip. U.S. authorities alerted the Dutch, and put air marshals on the flight to Amsterdam.
Authorities at an airport in the southern U.S. city of Birmingham, Alabama had found the taped cellphones and watches in al-Soofi’s luggage, along with the cash. Doesn’t this tell you something? And the following?
He and al-Murisi were supposed to fly from Chicago to Washington, D.C, then on to Amsterdam. But U.S. authorities became suspicious when the pair changed their travel plans to fly directly to the Dutch capital. One cell was taped to a bottle of antacid, and there were other cell phones and watched taped together in the luggage. Reports say al-Soofi lives in the midwestern U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The White House said neither of the men was on the “no-fly” terror watch list.
