Feds Warn Of Explosives Hidden In Shoes
Exclusive: Terror Bulletin Warns Security Officials To Look For "Modified Footwear"
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A bulletin issued by the FBI and Homeland Security warns that terrorists are still trying to use shoes to conceal explosive devices. Bob Orr reports.
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The alert follows the discovery of bomb detonators - expertly hidden in the hollowed-out soles of this pair of shoes - found aboard a European bus last month.
Intelligence officials say the shoes were not being worn at the time, but instead were being used, as the document says, “to smuggle electric blasting caps across international borders for use in a terrorist attack.”
“The terrorists have an interest in explosive devices. They are trying to figure out the best way to push them, to move them through the system,” said CBS News counterterrorism analyst Paul Kurtz.
Shoes have been used by terrorists before.
Three months after 9/11, al Qaeda operative Richard Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines jet with a shoe bomb similar to the one shown in this test.
Now at U.S. airports, scanners X-ray all passengers’ shoes and carry on bags, searching for explosives.
Still, experts worry that a team of terrorists could beat security by carrying unassembled parts of a bomb past a checkpoint.
“Where one person will carry component A, the next person will carry component B, and they will meet together past the safety point, past the checkpoint and reassemble," explained Mike White, the director of training for Michael Stapleton Associates and a former head of the NYPD bomb squad.
Officials say there is no specific intelligence that terrorists are preparing new attacks against America.
But, the threat remains high - and the bulletin warns law enforcement officials not to assume that routine objects, like shoes, are always what they appear to be.
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See all 155 CommentsRe: %u201CThe terrorists have an interest in explosive devices. They are trying to figure out the best way to push them, to move them through the system,%u201D
How about e-bay or UPS?
Re: "Shoes have been used by terrorists before."
Sure they have, Paul Kurtz. Sure they have.
Let the War on Footware begin!
http://www.photohara.com/bk/terroristsinprison.pdf
Less than 48 hours ago, we had people complaining because the White House allegedly struck from a CDC report speculation about what diseases MIGHT flourish in a warmer climate.
Folks who are doing this are just as guilty as those they point the finger at. Why would you want to speculate about what diseases MIGHT flourish and not want to know about the methods of a group who IS ACTIVELY flourishing against us??
Seems the consistent view point would be to want to know about both potential dangers or none at all. And if it''s none at all......why in the hell are you reading the news anyways?
blazercoach1,
Re: "Less than 48 hours ago, we had people complaining because the White House allegedly struck from a CDC report speculation about what diseases MIGHT flourish in a warmer climate."
"Folks who are doing this are just as guilty as those they point the finger at. Why would you want to speculate about what diseases MIGHT flourish and not want to know about the methods of a group who IS ACTIVELY flourishing against us??"
That''s easy. The former is base on something called "science", while the latter is based only on paranoia, blather, lies, hype, fear, hatred, and ignorance.
Can you see the difference now?
Now we''re going to have to strip nude to get on a plane.
How stupid is that!!
I prefer the X and Y over the A and B theory.
Also if A wears one shoe and B is wearing the other shoe to the airport I always change my travel plans.
Lastly, if the shoe fits wear it.
All this could be taken care of simply by posting a guard at the entrance to the airport telling all passengers, "Regular travelers to the right, terrorist to the left."
What the article says is accurate and transcends action drama or a sitcom.
Posted by hypnotoad72
Ahh yeaaah riiight.
You are one funny dude.
The sequel to "Happy Feet" will be "Scary Feet".
Watch the other shoe drop.
Posted by billysmith6
Exactly, a terrorist could easily shove a stick of dynamite up their azz like a tampon and light the fuse dangling out like the string.
It would certainly prove stealth and most likely provide them the biggest azz bang they''ve ever had.
Missed me, by THAT much...
A life lived in fear is not life at all.
If you spend all your time and resources making enemies, rather than friends, fear is what you deserve and fear is what you''ll get.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
looking at that picture, gotta wonder what the expert part was.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
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Posted by MyIDonCBS at 10:47 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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can we send you to middle east and be our ambassor of peace?? perfect time to go..there are no blackwater security team to get in your way and the rest of the people who wants to be your friends
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Posted by billysmith6 at 09:42 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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You ar right..why would terrorist use jet liners as weapons?? it is not like they can use it and ram it against a building or anything..why bombs??its not like they can ever use bombs as a weapon..man we should make you head of Homeland Security.
Posted by ragmountain at 07:21 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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You''d be the same person saying that Bush is a poor leader for not warning us about this "obvious" security hole. "Why didn''t Bush warn us. He wants to go to war so he didn''t say anything to stop this assault of shoe bombers so he can now attack Iran." He did this on purpose. !!!He was right to attack Iraq and he''d be right to attack Iran, unless you whiners make him believe that the sane people of the US are not %100 behind him. Stop letting these 2 bit dictators thumb their noses at us. We are the laughing stock of the world right now, The world reads the cr@p in these forums and believes we all think like this. I can assure them that most of the people in this country don''t bother to post here because they know this is a tool of the left. The majority of the US will do ANYTHING to keep nukes out of Iran including war. Better to do it now before they get them. If you don''t believe they want them and will use them then you are as crazy as they are. When they blow up your town then you can join them and their virgins in heaven to receive their rewards for killing the infidels.
yeah i am so sure they would be very hesitant NOT TO USE IT..
either way..a nuke attack here and they can blame bush for not stopping it..
cyinzl8r,
re: "We are the laughing stock of the world right now,"
True. Nice work!
Re: "I can assure them that most of the people in this country don''''t bother to post here because they know this is a tool of the left."
This forum is open to everyone. Are you sure that you are not simply in a rapidly shrinking and increasingly insignificant handful of Bush bobble-headed dead-enders, whose back has long been broken, in several places?
Re: "The majority of the US will do ANYTHING to keep nukes out of Iran..."
Including nothing at all, since they don''t have them and since there is zero evidence that they are trying to acquire them?
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it is such and inconvienence huh?? we might as well get a liberal in the white house..at least these people can start fedexing these bomb in
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what is true..the ''world'' does not really care because they are too busy with terrorism themselves.
you can see a conspiracy between bush and santa clause and you cannot see a systematic push for nuke by the iranians..
by the way..are there any liberals in middle east?
libsluvsuvs,
Re: "you can see a conspiracy between bush and santa clause and you cannot see a systematic push for nuke by the iranians.."
Thank you for taking a pause in your fecal smearing regimen, to come here and share your ridiculous, desperate, and pathetic delusions with us this evening.
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why is that?? are you afraid someone will knock you out as "king of fecal smearing"?
Well pretty soon we''ll have ORANGE alerts or even maybe RED to scare all into Republican obedience for the election.
While their at it, may as well break out a couple more Bin Laden re-masters for public good. They are getting as humorous and silly as old Laurel and Hardy films.
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honestly,, why bother right? we are lost and we pissed off the whole world..just let them allll in..
hell why not let atta''s family sue the airline provider that he used..saying they were negligent for not stopping atta from killing himself..
maybe i should stop.. i dont want to give these liberals any more ideas
Well pretty soon we''''ll have ORANGE alerts or even maybe RED to scare all into Republican obedience for the election.
While their at it, may as well break out a couple more Bin Laden re-masters for public good. They are getting as humorous and silly as old Laurel and Hardy films.
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Posted by Nearl4511 at 11:28 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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this guy demonstrates the kind of mentality that we call..''dam ned if we do..and dam ned if we dont''
Be prepared to full cavity searches during holiday travel, folks.
Beware especially of 70 year old white women....their britches can be really loaded.
Bunch of clowns.
Are we stupid? Duh...uh...can''t get fooled again.
Sorry, I am certain that we can!
Having the country at yellow alert since before the 2006 election, has not made us more cautious, just more oblivious and more open to degrading our own sense of decency.
If you have no sense of what the intended mindset is with this continual barrage of fear mongering, then you deserve to live on a plantation, owned by the propagandists.
Last week it was MSRA.
The week before it was miraculous Bin Laden tapes,
before that flammable liquids and toenail clippers,
next will be baby formula.
Eventually you have to stop living so dam*ned scared and take your chances. If you haven''y noticed LIFE IS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS. But not more dangerous than ANY yesteryear. Today the scare was BUMBO infant chairs. BOOOOOO!
Think about it. We''ve been taking off our shoes in airports for six years now. So why exactly is this news now?
As the article says, "Officials say there is no specific intelligence that terrorists are preparing new attacks against America."
So what is the excuse for the blaring headline? It''s not like CBS actually did any undercover reporting here and uncovered a shocking Government report. The Government simply handed the report, which is unclassified, over to CBS - and CBS dutifully splashed it online.
Ooh, the liberal media is so wily.
Find out from this link and let me know!
http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/
Kevin Ryan, the laboratory director at Environmental Health Laboratories Inc., which is a subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories Inc., writes an e-mail to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)%u2014the agency currently investigating the WTC collapses%u2014in which he challenges the official theory regarding the WTC collapses. According to Ryan, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. was the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the World Trade Center, and it had been agreed that the samples it certified met all requirements. His e-mail states, %u201CThis story just does not add up. If steel from [the Twin Towers] did soften or melt, I%u2019m sure we can all agree that this was certainly not due to jet fuel fires of any kind, let alone the briefly burning fires in those towers.
His e-mail is published on the Internet, and generates interest on many websites. Days later, Kevin Ryan is fired because, according to a company spokesman, he %u201Cexpressed his own opinions
The British publication New Civil Engineer reports that, despite calls from leading structural and fire engineers, WTC collapse investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are refusing to show computer visualizations of the Twin Towers%u2019 collapses. Despite having shown detailed computer generated visualizations of the plane impacts and the development of fires in the WTC at a recent conference, it showed no visualizations of the actual collapse mechanisms of the towers. Colin Bailey, a professor of structural engineering at the University of Manchester, complains, %u201CNIST should really show the visualisations; otherwise the opportunity to correlate them back to the video evidence and identify any errors in the modelling will be lost.%u201D A leading US structural engineer says that NIST%u2019s %u201Cglobal structural model%u201D is less sophisticated than its plane impact and fire models:
Entity Tags: Shyam Sunder, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline
Category Tags: 9/11 Investigations, WTC Investigation
In response to the fact sheet, Kevin Ryan, the coeditor of the online Journal of 9/11 Studies, says, %u201CThe list of answers NIST has provided is generating more questions, and more skepticism, than ever before.%u201D He says, %u201CNIST is a group of government scientists whose leaders are Bush appointees, and therefore their report is not likely to veer from the political story.%u201D [New York Times, 9/2/2006; Reuters, 9/2/2006]
Entity Tags: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kevin Ryan
Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline
Category Tags: WTC Investigation, 9/11 Investigations
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