12 Mumbai men arrested on US Jet to be freed

Haarlem, Netherlands: Prosecutors said Thursday they found no evidence of a terrorist threat aboard a Northwest Airlines flight to India that returned to Amsterdam, and they are releasing all 12 passengers arrested after the emergency landing.
The men, all Indian nationals, had aroused suspicions on Flight NW0042 to Bombay because they had a large number of cell phones, lap tops and hard drives, and refused to follow the
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They were part of a group
of garment exporters
Mumbai: The 12 Indian men detained in
Amsterdam were part of a group of 42 garment
exporters who had gone to participate in
a trade fair at Port of Spain in the Caribbean
island last month. Some members of the
group left Port of Spain on August 19 and
reached Mumbai on Monday. The other
12 left Port of Spain on the August 21. On
Tuesday, they reached Amsterdam to take
a connecting flight. “These kids are playful
and mischievous. The passengers would
have mistaken their playful mood,” said
Kadar Kolsawala, 75, father of Ayub Abdul
Kadar Kolsawala, one of the detainees.
24/08/06 Debasish Panigrahi/
Rajendra Aklekar/Megha Sood/Hindustan Times
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crew's instructions, prosecutors said. Because of those actions, the pilot of the DC-10 radioed for help shortly after takeoff Wednesday and the plane was escorted back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport by two Dutch fighter jets.
"A thorough investigation of the cell phones in the plane found that the phones were not manipulated and no explosives were found on board the plane," said a statement from the prosecutor's office.
The men were to be released later Thursday from a detention center at the airport and were free to leave the country, prosecution spokesman Ed Hartjes said.
25/08/06 Toby Sterling/The Associated Press/Washington Post

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