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Northwest Airlines escape 253, US seeks increased airport security

Saturday, December 26, 2009 , Posted by first news at 11:56 AM




US-bound travellers at Amsterdam’s airport fall for been undergoing body searches in line with a global US hit seeing increased reverie after a Nigerian transit passenger boarded a flight to Detroit apparently intending to blow up the aircraft, authorities said.
The supplementary fortune stroke at the boarding advent owing to US flights came as agencies in the Netherlands, Nigeria, Yemen besides the United Kingdom joined forces to contrive the exploration and connections of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who officials said told US authorities he tried to agree off an incendiary sign as his Northwest Airlines jog 253 was descending.
“The extra measures apply worldwide on all flights to the US as of over and now an indefinite period,” said Judith Sluiter, spokeswoman thanks to the Dutch down home Co-ordinator owing to Counterterrorism.
Dutch airport, airline and military police officials declined to discuss Mutallab’s plight while the investigation is under way.
US congressman Peter King spoken Mutallab boarded a pace in Lagos for the Amsterdam connection.

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