United Airlines pair held 'on terror charge'

Two men on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam were reportedly facing a terror charge today after US officials found a mobile phone taped to a medicine bottle, a knife and a box cutter in checked luggage.

A US law enforcement official, speaking anonymously because of an ongoing investigation and sensitive security issues, identified the men on the United Airlines flight as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezam al Murisi.