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Dutch Police Make Arrest In Teen Twitter Terror Threat

A teenager who tweeted terrorist threats to American Airlines has been arrested at her home in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Wessel Stole, an official spokesperson for the Dutch police, told Business Insider:

We’re not in a state that we can communicate any state of charges at this point. We just thought it was necessary to bring this out mostly because of the fact that it caused a great deal of interest on the Internet.

Sunday morning, a teenager named Sarah allegedly took to Twitter and tweeted the following threat to American Airlines:

Twitter

Twitter

 

American Airlines responded with the following:

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Twitter

 

After the teenager saw this message, she continued to tweet throughout the day.

The tweets started out with messages of regret:

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Twitter

 

Later, she reflected how popular her account had made her, gaining tens of thousands of new followers.

BNO broke the news of her arrest.

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Twitter

 

She has since changed her username and made her account private.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dutch-police-make-arrest-over-twitter-terror-threat-2014-4#ixzz2ytmhC8KX

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