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Posted on Aug 24, 2006

Dutch authorities detained 12 passengers on a flight headed to Mumbai, India, after the plane was turned around under fighter escort.  The passengers were reported to have behaved suspiciously—using and exchanging cellphones midflight. Later, authorities said the incident probably had nothing to do with terrorism and that the 12 passengers would be released today.

New York Times:

Dutch authorities said today that an incident aboard a Northwest Airlines jet on Wednesday that led to a panicked early landing and the detention of 12 passengers probably had nothing to do with terrorism. Prosecutors said the 12 passengers, who were held overnight by police, would be released today, news agencies reported.

The pilot of Northwest Flight 42, which was traveling from Amsterdam to Mumbai, turned back about 20 minutes into the flight on Wednesday after several passengers were observed passing cell phones back and forth and unfastening their seat belts.

Two F-16 fighter jets from the Royal Netherlands Air Force escorted the airliner back to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam as United States air marshals who were onboard intervened.

“Up until now, it does not appear to be terror related,” the Dutch news agency ANP quoted Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner as saying.

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By yours truly, August 24, 2006 at 4:45 pm #
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Hmm, every one of the alleged terrorist plots or scares over the past few months has been either in the USA (NYC, Miami) or in nations such as Great Britain, Germany* and the Netherlands, all of which supports the USA in its war against Iraq. Furthermore, whatever the true nature of these highly publicized plots/scares, they’ve worried the hell out of people. Which, of course, may be the intent of whomever their perpetrators.

Which, yes, is to suggest that these “events” probably were put together by the intelligence agencies of the above mentioned countries (with the CIA as the master planner)for the purpose of stoking fear and anxiety to a high enough level that when another 9/11 occurs, it’ll be like the Reichstag fire that begot Cristalnacht and the complete collapse of whatever freedom and democracy was left in Germany after the Nazi takeover in l933. 

The Reichstag fire, by the way, was a little arson ploy used by the Nazis in order to panic the German people into allowing Hitler to declare himself their supreme commander. It worked, too.

What’s Bush’s ploy gonna be?

*Germany may be a stretch here, but its new chancellor is ideologically closer to Bush than her predecessor was)

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By L ERIC BARRY, August 24, 2006 at 12:00 pm #
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Your’s is the only blog I found that had this item.
When I first read the article in Yahoo news I was taken by the lack of information as to what the 12 passangers had done and why they were released after questioning.  Surely they don’t just turn a plane around with fighter escorts for no reason???
Would like you to find the facts behind this scary situation.

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