Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion

Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack.

The two men did not have prohibited items on them, a law enforcement official told Fox News, saying that although knives were found in their checked luggage, such checked items aren't prohibited. The individuals also were not on the no-fly list, nor were there any active warrants for their arrest.

"Suspicious items were located in checked luggage associated with two passengers on United Flight 908 from Chicago O'Hare to Amsterdam," the Transportation Safety Administration said in a written statement. "The items were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves."

FBI agents in Chicago are assisting Dutch investigators as needed, an FBI spokesman told Fox News. Several non-functioning cell phones also were found taped together in a piece of checked baggage of one of the men, the FBI said.

"It's still a fluid situation right now," the spokesman told Fox News.

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ABC News, which first reported the arrests, quoted an unnamed U.S. official saying that the pair were charged by the Dutch with "preparation of a terrorist attack." One of the men initially drew suspicion when boarding a flight from Birmingham, Ala., to Chicago, but authorities allowed him to board, ABC News reports.

Sources told Fox News that the men posed no immediate danger to the flight, but U.S. officials are looking into whether the men were "testing the system."