Amsterdam Flight Terror Suspects May Not Be Charged
The Detroit Free Press reports:
Fears that two men with metro Detroit ties were making a terrorist dry run before being arrested off a flight in Amsterdam are slowly easing.
A senior Yemeni official told the Free Press today that the two men arrested Monday in connection with suspicious items in the luggage of one of the men are not terrorists.
Meanwhile, a Department of Homeland Security statement today appeared to downplay earlier federal assertions that it may have been linked to terrorism.
“I do not think they had any intentions” of committing terrorism, Yemen's consul general in Detroit, Abdul-Hakim Al-Sadah, told the Free Press today.
The U.S. does not expect to charge Ahmed Moihamed Nasser al Soofi, 48, a Yemeni who has permanent resident status in the U.S., and Hezem Abdullah Thabi al Murisi, 37, a Yemeni who traveled to the U.S. on a visitor’s visa, a U.S. official has told the Associated Press.
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