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Girl Arrested for Airline Tweet

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After threatening to ”do something really big.”

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A 14-year-old Dutch girl was arrested in Rotterdam on Monday after tweeting a threatening message to American Airlines, purporting to be an al Qaeda member in Afghanistan who would "do something really big on June 1." The unidentified girl turned herself in to police after the airline called authorities. She is being charged with "posting a false or alarming announcement," and is being questioned.

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