2 SEP 2010

Telegraph

Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of terrorism have been released for lack of evidence, Dutch prosecutors have said.

The men, identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi of Detroit, Michigan, and Hezam al-Murisi, were apprehended on a stopover to their destination, Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.

They were arrested after US security spotted suspicious-looking items, including a mobile phone taped to a plastic bottle, in Mr Soofi's luggage which was on a plane bound for Washington Dulles airport while he was on a flight to Amsterdam.

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