Suspects arrested on airliner

[Botnst]

2 terrorist suspects arrested on KLM flight
By NICOLE LANGE, Associated Press Writer
34 minutes ago
COLOGNE, Germany - German police boarded a plane at Cologne airport and arrested two terrorist suspects Friday just before the plane took off for Amsterdam.

A 23-year-old Somali man and a 24-year-old German man born in Somalia were arrested before the KLM flight left the airport, a spokeswoman for North Rhine-Westphalia state police said.

Police spokeswoman Katharina Breuer told The Associated Press that officers boarded the plane at 6:55 a.m. (0455 GMT) and arrested the men without incident. She said authorities do not think the men planned to hijack the flight.

Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper, citing police sources, said the men had been under observation for months and a suicide note was found in their apartment saying that they wanted to die for the "jihad" or "holy war."

Breuer would not disclose how authorities knew the men would be on board.

Elfrieke van Galen, a KLM spokeswoman, said police boarded the Fokker 50 jet when it was at its "point of departure" and grabbed the two suspects. Van Galen said the 46 remaining passengers aboard KLM Flight 1804 were then forced to leave the plane.

"Then a 'baggage parade' took place to see if the two passengers who were taken by the police had bags with them," she said.

Van Galen said the plane took off after an hour delay and landed at Schipol airport in the Netherlands without further incident.

The Dutch anti-terror chief warned earlier this month that the country remains one of the top targets for Islamic terrorist groups because of publicity surrounding a lawmaker's anti-Islam film.

The National Coordinator for Combating Terrorism said in a report the film "Fitna" by lawmaker Geert Wilders has made the Netherlands a "preferred target" for Islamic groups.

Fitna set Koranic texts against a background of violent images, which the agency said "is considered a major insult and provocation" by terrorist groups.

The country's terrorist threat has been rated as "substantial" since the film's launch in March.

Frank Wallenta, a spokesman for federal prosecutors in Germany, said the arrests in Cologne were not related to an announcement Thursday that two men linked to terrorist suspects may be on their way back to Germany.

On Thursday, prosecutors announced that Eric Breininger, 21, and Houssain Al Malla, 23 could be headed to Germany after leaving a terrorist training camp in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The men are linked to a foiled plot to attack American targets in Germany in 2007.

[Botnst]

Made a film about Islam and violence which the radical Muslims found insulting ... so they get violent in response.

got it.

B

[Dee8go]

Bot, I think you're just over simplifying things . . . .

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by Dee8go

Bot, I think you're just over simplifying things . . . .

No doubt.

[RichC]

Originally Posted by Botnst

A monopole antenna is a type of radio antenna formed by replacing one half of a dipole antenna with a ground plane at right-angles to the remaining half. If the ground plane is large enough, the monopole behaves exactly like a dipole, as if its reflection in the ground plane formed the missing half of the dipole (see image antenna).

When used for radio broadcasting, the radio frequency power from the broadcasting transmitter is fed across the base insulator between the tower and a ground system. The ideal ground system for AM broadcasters comprises 120 buried copper or phosphor bronze radial wires at least one-quarter wavelength long and a ground-screen in the immediate vicinity of the tower. All the ground system components are bonded together, usually by brazing or using coin silver solder to help reduce corrosion. Monopole antennas that use guy-wires for support are called masts in some countries. In the United States, the term “mast” is not generally used to relate to antennas, so both self-supporting and guy-wire supported radio antennas are simply called monopoles if they stand alone. If multiple monopole antennas are used in order to control the direction of Radio Frequency (RF) propagation, they are called directional antenna arrays.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires that the transmitter power input to the antenna be measured and maintained. The power input is calculated as the square of the measured current, i, flowing into the antenna from the transmission line multiplied by the real part of the antenna's feed-point impedance, r.

P = i2r

This impedance is periodically measured to verify the stability of the antenna and ground system. Normally, an impedance matching network matches the impedance of the antenna to the impedance of the transmission line feeding it.

Oh.

[OldPokey]

Where the hell did the discourse on electromagnetic emanations come from?

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by OldPokey

Where the hell did the discourse on electromagnetic emanations come from?

get yer foil hat now!

[AdvisorGuy]

So are we at AMBER ALERT yet ?!?!

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by AdvisorGuy

So are we at AMBER ALERT yet ?!?!

Given the circumstances, I think we're on paisley alert.

[PaulC]

Originally Posted by Botnst

get yer foil hat now!

Foil? How quaint. How about a nice wool knit infused with metal thread?

[AdvisorGuy]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Given the circumstances, I think we're on paisley alert.

They have colors ?!?!?! Can we have a beige wine ?!?!? How about a nice tweed ?!?!?"

[RichC]

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What the hell is wrong with you people ?

The country is falling apart and your trying to convict me of conspiracy theories.

Can you put up a few more staw men you can knock down.

Good grief grow the hell up !!


RichC

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[Larry Delor]

The country has been falling apart for some time now. You mean, you just noticed?

Every empire collapses....even this one (eventually).

[RichC]

Originally Posted by PaulC

Foil? How quaint. How about a nice wool knit infused with metal thread?

Really Paul, you gotta quit posting my pictures sooooo much.
People are gonna think your gay for me or something.
And if you are, come on down, and I will show you what it means to be " stump broke "


RichC

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[Botnst]

Lasso from El Paso.