12 Arrested in Amsterdam flight…

This is beginning to look like a serious story. Blue Crab Boulevard is keeping on top of it.

As you can see from this report, the press is having trouble talking about the nationality of those arrested. “South Asian” is the new “North African,” I guess. These “South Asians” were hauling out their cell phones.

A U.S. passenger named Alpa, who did not wish to use her last name, told AP television reporters she had seen police handcuff and remove around 11 men of south Asian appeareance from the plane before other passengers. She said she didn’t see what happened but heard from other passengers the men had aroused suspicion by getting out their mobile phones. Dutch NOS news reported that 12 passengers had been detained, but airport police could not immediately confirm that.

Ah, well. As long as the press doesn’t tell us too much about these folks. They can tell us about national security issues and such, but they’re very protective of information that might encourage profiling and such.

Counterterrorism Blog has more. And CNN is reporting that the behavior of these folks was suspicious enough to make the air marshalls break cover.

More and more interesting.