CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: We now go back to the Middle East where two men accused of hijacking a Saudi Arabian Airlines jet are in the custody of Iraqi security officials today. The plane's passengers and crew were released unharmed. CNN's Jane Arraf joins us now from Baghdad with exactly how this situation unfolded -- Jane.</s>JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol that Saudi Air plane is still on the runway, parked at Saddam International Airport, and the passengers are still here in Baghdad. They're at the government- owned Rashid hotel where they spent the night last night after being evacuated from the plane during that hijacking drama. Two of the passengers who won't be getting back on are the hijackers themselves, Saudis, who were given a press conference by the Iraqi government to denounce the Saudi government. They said they hijacked the plane to protest against Saudi repression. That plane is being checked again after the hijackers said they had left a bomb there. Iraqi officials say it's been thoroughly checked and they have found nothing. Most of the passenger hadn't actually realized until the plane was on the ground in Baghdad, diverted from London, that they were being hijacked. One of those passengers is with us now, Maria Scott (ph), who was a nurse in Saudi Arabia, flying to London to visit her daughter, who is about to give birth to a baby. Can you tell us what it was like, Maria?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, well, we didn't know that there was...</s>ARRAF: Those passengers will be going home, but not quite yet. That plane is going back to Saudi Arabia to presumably get a new crew before it goes back on to London. The hijackers remain in Iraqi custody -- Carol.</s>LIN: All right, thank you very much, Jane Arraf, reporting with the latest on that hijacked plane now landed in Baghdad.
Saudi Air Hijackers in Iraqi Custody, Passengers Released Unharmed