Dutch police hold British 'terror suspect' in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport

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Sun Sep-19-10 11:37 AM
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Dutch police hold British 'terror suspect' in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport

Edited on Sun Sep-19-10 11:54 AM by Turborama

Source: BBC

A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on suspicion of being a terrorist, Dutch prosecutors say.

He had arrived from Liverpool en route to Entebbe in Uganda, they said.

A police spokesman said the man had been arrested before a flight took off from the airport, one of Europe's busiest, on Sunday.

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Last week, the head of the UK's domestic intelligence service MI5, Jonathan Evans, warned that the UK faced a continuing serious risk of a lethal terrorist attack taking place, with Somalia and Yemen being important concerns as a source of serious plots against the country.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11365274

OP from Friday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4543514">MI5 head warns of serious risk of UK terrorist attack

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