A British man is being held at Schiphol airport on suspicion of being a terrorist 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 morning.
Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of planning a terror attack were released earlier this month.
Police were investigating whether the man arrested on Sunday had links to a foreign militant organisation, prosecutors said.
The tip-off to arrest the man came from the British authorities, a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutors’ office said.
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.
Security review
In last month’s incident, two Yemeni men were arrested at Schiphol after flying in from Chicago.
The two were held for several days then released without charge, after an investigation found no evidence to link them to a terrorist plot.
At the beginning of this year, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Nigeria was charged with trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on 24 December 2009.
A device allegedly sewn into Mr Abdulmutallab’s underwear contained an explosive.
The case triggered a worldwide aviation security review.
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