Feds Warn Of Explosives Hidden In Shoes

Exclusive: Terror Bulletin Warns Security Officials To Look For "Modified Footwear"

(CBS)  The joint FBI-Homeland Security bulletin, obtained by CBS News today, bluntly warns that terrorists are still working to use “modified footwear as a concealment method for explosive devices,” CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.

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.

[feelfree1]

Re: %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!

[ragmountain]

The Bob Orr report is propaganda -- pure and simple. No facts -- more "terrorism" being systematically fed to us by government officials whose next target is Iran. Recognize it for what it is -- the same kind of rhetoric leading up to the Iraq war.

[ragmountain]

The Bob Orr report is propaganda -- pure and simple. No facts -- more "terrorism" being systematically fed to us by government officials whose next target is Iran. Recognize it for what it is -- the same kind of rhetoric leading up to the Iraq war.

[name_verify]

Thats enough of you and your exploding b*tches.

[ragmountain]

The Bob Orr report is propaganda -- pure and simple. No facts -- more "terrorism" being systematically fed to us by government officials whose next target is Iran. Recognize it for what it is -- the same kind of rhetoric leading up to the Iraq war.

[ctboyhood]

Talking about Reid, terror article at

http://www.photohara.com/bk/terroristsinprison.pdf

[blazercoach1]

We''ve had people on here suggesting that warning us about the methods used by people who have not only sworn to kill us but have already done so is just alarmist propoganda.

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?

[gkc99]

And look out for shoes with spikes in the toes covered with tetrodotoxin! Rosa Kreb wore those in "From Russia With Love"!

[feelfree1]

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?

[observantx]

OMG!
Now we''re going to have to strip nude to get on a plane.

How stupid is that!!

[raskal_2]

...Are you just joking or what? CBS please....6 years ago some clown tried to light a pair of shoes, he failed. Is it such a poor news day that you have to rehash old stuff or are you blindly repeating rubbish propaganda marketed by Homeland Security to maintain fear in this country. I am not afraid nor will I let stand this government''s attempts to disassemble the basic rights guaranteed in writing by our founding fathers

[rushlimpdrug]

"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"

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."

[hypnotoad72]

Anybody watching a "James Bond" movie or even an episode of the "Get Smart" TV series knows nasties will attempt stunts of the shoe accord.

What the article says is accurate and transcends action drama or a sitcom.

[rushlimpdrug]

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.

[l8c6]

This news is important to remind us why 99.9 % of the pie is going to defense contractors and not to american citizens evacuated, displaced and otherwise ravaged by hurricanes, tornadoes and fires off the charts of historical severity.

[l8c6]

I heard terrorists were hiding explosives up the crack of their azz! They may find more there than making people take their shoes off at airports.

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.

[jlelijah]

Time to wet your pants and hide under your bed. Threat level orange.

[feelfree1]

Missed me, by THAT much...

[myidoncbs]

The Feds warn: Be afraid. Be very afraid!

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.

[andor3]

"expertly hidden in the hollowed-out soles of this pair of shoes..."

looking at that picture, gotta wonder what the expert part was.

[libsluvsuvs]

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.



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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

[libsluvsuvs]

I heard terrorists were hiding explosives up the crack of their azz! They may find more there than making people take their shoes off at airports.


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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.

[cyinzl8r]

The Bob Orr report is propaganda -- pure and simple. No facts -- more "terrorism" being systematically fed to us by government officials whose next target is Iran. Recognize it for what it is -- the same kind of rhetoric leading up to the Iraq war.

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.

[unclereggie2]

oh God, no, please, no, not again, shoe bombs again, no no no no no, Jesus no! They cannot be stupid enough to float this one again?? Can they? ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[libsluvsuvs]

anti-american liberals JUSTIFIES giving nukes to a bunch of people who''s ideology says that it is okay to strap a bomb on the themselves and detonate it..

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..

[feelfree1]

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?

[libsluvsuvs]

Posted by unclereggie2 at 11:12 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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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

[libsluvsuvs]

Posted by FeelFree1 at 11:14 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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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?

[unclereggie2]

Please, before you''all go to bed tonight, take a peek under the bed. There is a lot of noise out there about sandmen and tooth fairies trying to subvert our children as they sleep and turn them against us. Beware! Beware!

[feelfree1]

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.

[unclereggie2]

and no, what we need in the White House is a thinker! What we have now is a Jughead.

[libsluvsuvs]

Posted by FeelFree1 at 11:21 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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why is that?? are you afraid someone will knock you out as "king of fecal smearing"?

[nearl4511]

Talk about old news for propaganda purposes.

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.

[libsluvsuvs]

Posted by unclereggie2 at 11:24 PM : Oct 25, 2007
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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

[libsluvsuvs]

Talk about old news for propaganda purposes.

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''

[nearl4511]

OH OH...I just heard that we need to beware of explosives in underpants.

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.

[unclereggie2]

oh my yes, let''s act! Quick, bomb them now. Hurry. They might someday be able to throw darts at us. Let''s be proactive and vaporize them before they can get to us, and much more importantly, so we can wipe out any evidence that they ever intended to do so.

Are we stupid? Duh...uh...can''t get fooled again.

Sorry, I am certain that we can!

[unclereggie2]

Screw you people, you hate-mongering bigots. You are anti-Americans. You are the antithesis of every word written in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and Bill of Rights, What a waste of time you are.

[nearl4511]

THe purpose of this story is not to make people more cautious. That is a red herring.

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!

[radiob-2009]

Living in America in the new millennium post 9-11 has meant a barrage of "terror alert" upgrades, disrespect for the Constitution (habeas corpus), torture being used on the "enemy", two seemingly endless wars one warranted, the other not necessary a war of choice based upon "false information", profiling of all "Arabs" (either directly or indirectly as a result of attitudes since 9-11), a lack of trust in our government from congress to the white house, our nation further in debt over a unnecessary war (Iraq), further separation of people of the US instead of unification of the people, illegal aliens with a promise of "amnesty" lingering on their lips (thanks to the current congress and Bush), a widening of the "social classes" with more people falling into the middle class and poverty. A continued argument over abortion, our manufacturing, assembly and service base industries leaving the US. A presidential election looming with more "flea infested" poodles than ever in our history. Yet despite all of our problems that need to be addressed America still stands tall our "ideology" remains intact which is the glimmer of hope amongst all the negativity of our current nation standing. Sure was nice when the "world" (America) was round. The days of neighbors helping neighbors as if they were family. Pockets of it remain and shine during crisis.

[shingles1]

If you''re going to go after Iran, you gotta seed the soil with some stories about the terrorist threat beforehand. Need to boost up the fear level.

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.

[usayesterday]

So what color does this warning deserve?

Find out from this link and let me know!

http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/

[red164]

.%u201D However, it admits, %u201CNIST did not test for the residue%u201D of explosives in the remaining steel from the towers.


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

[red164]

October 6, 2005: NIST Refuses to Show Computer Visualizations of WTC Collapses

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:

[red164]

March 20, 2006: Head of US Investigation on WTC Building 7 Does Not Know Why It Collapsed Dr. S. Shyam Sunder, head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology government investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center building, is asked about the collapse of WTC Building 7. Sunder says that he hopes to release something about that by the end of 2006. He adds, NIST did have some %u201Cpreliminary hypotheses%u2026 We are studying the horizontal movement east to west, internal to the structure, on the fifth to seventh floors.%u2026 But truthfully, I don%u2019t really know. We%u2019ve had trouble getting a handle on building No. 7.%u201D [New York Magazine, 3/20/2006]
Entity Tags: Shyam Sunder, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline
Category Tags: 9/11 Investigations, WTC Investigation

[red164]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issues a seven-page fact sheet to counter alternative theories about the WTC collapses.


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

[feelfree1]

Attention all:

Don''t miss an opportunity to join countless others in denouncing the illegal, disgraceful, and self-defeating Bush wars of choice, and heinous criminal behavior.

A nationwide regional demonstration is coming to a city near you, this Saturday, October 27.

Please join in support of this effort!

www.oct27.org

[samrensho]

Once again the scare tactics start. Can''t wait to see what 2008 will bring. Nuclear tipped tampons? LMAO

[red164]

Posted by radiob at 12:18 AM : Oct 26, 2007

KUDOS

[michellem99-2009]

I wear combat boots..The same one the troops wear..make in the US of A. The nanny govt working over time. why don''t they check out them illeaals running in in this nation...