A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on suspicion of being a terrorist, Dutch prosecutors say.
He had arrived from Liverpool en route to Entebbe in Uganda, they said.
A police spokesman said the man had been arrested as his flight was about to take off on Sunday morning.
Police were investigating whether he had links to a foreign militant organisation, prosecutors said. No explosives were found in his luggage.
British officials have confirmed the arrest, but declined to comment on reports that they had tipped off the Dutch authorities.
Uganda and Kenya are both common transit routes for Europe-based Somalis returning home.
Last week, the head of the UK's domestic intelligence service MI5 warned that the UK faced a serious risk of a terrorist attack, adding that Somalia and Yemen were becoming focal points of jihadist activity.
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