BRITON ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH TERRORIST PLOT

A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on suspicion of involvement with a foreign terrorist organization.
The man -- who was traveling from the English city of Liverpool to Entebbe in Uganda via the Netherlands -- was arrested by Dutch military police just as his flight was about to take off Sunday, according to Radio Netherlands. Evert Boerstra, a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's office, told the radio station that the arrest was made after Dutch officers received a tipoff from British security services.
The al-Qaida-inspired militia -- which wants to kick foreign peacekeepers out of Somalia and to implement Sharia law across the East African country -- claimed responsibility for the July bombings in Kampala, the capital of neighboring Uganda, which killed 76 people -- including one American. Many victims were killed while watching the World Cup championship match."We are just investigating his possible involvement in a terrorist organization," a Dutch police spokesman toldReuters. "There was no explosive material found in his luggage." Under Dutch law, the alleged terror suspect can be held for up to three days without charge.

*Passengers and airline staff stand near closed 
check-in counters at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
on April 16. Dutch military police arrested a British
man of Somali origin at the request of the U.K. 
government just before his plane took off.
The arrest marks the third terror scare at Schiphol -- Europe's fifth-largest passenger airport -- in less than a year. On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got on a plane there and allegedly attempted to blow up the jetliner upon arrival in Detroit with an explosive device sewn into his underwear. The Nigerian is thought to have smuggled the explosives through Amsterdam airport, leading Schiphol's operator to step up security measures and install full-body scanners.
And late last month, two Yemeni men who had flown in from Chicago were arrested at the airport after U.S. authorities discovered suspicious items in their luggage. They were held for several days, and released without charge after an investigation found no evidence to link them to a terrorist plot.

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