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| London police storm Dubai-bound plane, 3 held |
| 2010-01-10 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Armed officers stormed a plane at London's Heathrow airport as it was about to depart for Dubai and arrested three men on suspicion of making a bomb threat, police said Saturday. The Emirates flight was preparing to take off late Friday when a "verbal threat" was made to staff, London's Metropolitan Police Service said. "Police were alerted and armed officers boarded the plane," a police statement said. "Three men aged 58, 48 and 36 were arrested and are now in police custody. They have been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat." Police were searching the aircraft but media reported no harmful substances were believed to have been found on the plane, which had 331 passengers on board. Sky News television reported that the men arrested were English and appeared to be drunk. It broadcast a grainy photograph purportedly taken inside the aircraft, showing police in black overalls, and a passenger said officers brandishing guns in body armor burst onto the plane and hauled the suspects away. Passenger Cameron McLean, who Sky said supplied them with the photograph, told the broadcaster: "Some special police just came on the plane and arrested these two guys a few rows in front of me. "The police just swarmed the guy and then rushed him out. I think he was a white male," he said. The passenger added there were about five armed officers who were wearing helmets, body armor and carrying what appeared to be automatic weapons. The security scare came after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, allegedly tried to detonate a device stitched into his underwear on a flight from Amsterdam as it landed in the United States on December 25. In a court in Detroit on Friday, he pleaded not guilty to six charges related to the incident, which has led to security being stepped at airports worldwide. |
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| Posted by: Heriberto Elmonter9834 2010-01-10 22:17 |
| #3 ION NEWS KERALA > [Abdulmutullab] TWENTY MORE TERRORISTS TRAING IN YEMEN FOR AIRLINE SUICIDE OPERATIONS AGZ USA. * SAME > ASIA Times Artic = OBAMA'S YEMENI ODYSSEY TARGETS CHINA [US covertly deisres control of strategic PORT OF ADEN vee China]. ARTIC > Britain has long-recognized and has oft vouched that ADEN is the KEY/GATEWAY TO ASIA + CHINA TRADE. In addition, the USA views the popularist local HOUTHI REBEL MOVEMENT as HIZBOLLAH INSPIRED + AFFILIATED [read, IRAN]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-10 22:04 |
| #2 I dunno, newc. If the plane is configured right you could open a door in flight and let them fly on their own. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-10 10:42 |
| #1 Thats how you deal with flying Imams. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-01-10 05:29 |