Feds Warn Of Explosives Hidden In Shoes

(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.

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Posted by ziparmux at 04:29 AM : Oct 28, 2007

not my words,,, those are the words of al bore,,,

the war in iraq is the continuation of the 1991 iraq war,,, after they did not live up to their ceasefire agreement,,, but you that already,,,

1991: Jubilation follows Gulf War ceasefire
The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf.
A ceasefire was announced in Washington by President George Bush after Iraq accepted all 12 resolutions made by the United Nations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/28/newsid_2515000/2515289.stm

[ziparmux]

Terrorist will always find a way to harm people. They are ruthless and always find a way to kill and maim.


Posted by donniep12 at 07:30 AM : Oct 28, 2007

Yes true, we have them here, they now get paid 80,000 dollars a year, have expense accounts and tax payers paying for their flights from Ireland to London and back !

[donniep12]

Terrorist will always find a way to harm people. They are ruthless and always find a way to kill and maim.

[ziparmux]

Sort out your fiscal policies, as the US will not survive this madness of spending TRILLLIONS of dollars on defence and OFFENCE around the globe, whilst your children are dying because your idiot BUSH will not spend a mere 35 billion dollars for SCHIP ! Get your priorities right ASAP.

Posted by ziparmux at 04:29 AM : Oct 28, 2007

And that 35 Billion Dollars was a program spread over 5 YEARS !! 7 Billion Dollars a year for the richest nation on this planet for your poorest children, BUSH would spend that on warmongering before having breakfast in the morning.

Also ask Donald Rumsfeld where the $&^% he lost 2.3 TRILLION dollars, what there''s an hole in the bottom of a safe in the Pentagon and it just fell into the earths mantle, wouldn''t suprise me if they come up with some crack pot BS story like that, as after 9/11 most Americans are susceptible to believe any "outrageous conspiracies".

[ziparmux]

Moreover, no international law can prevent the United States from taking actions to protect its vital interests, when it is manifestly clear that there is a choice to be made between law and survival.

Posted by rerrorislam3 at 07:13 AM : Oct 27, 2007

All the most important key words you typed yourself (above).

The war in Iraq is ILLEGAL, and the UK (BLAIR) carries as much responsibility for that.
You coin the phrase ''no law can prevent the US'', hmmm sure you do not obey international law, to protect "vital" interests.
What are these vital interests? OIL maybe!
Another quote from above "there is no coice to be made between law and survival", so it''s ok to shoot your neighbour if your starving and you have a child that is hungry? NO you do not, you obey laws within a democratic framework. One disobeying laws does not justufy another person to do so.
Re: Survival, then please for the sake of the rest of the world and the peoples of the US of A, practice what ''you''re'' preaching here. Sort out your fiscal policies, as the US will not survive this madness of spending TRILLLIONS of dollars on defence and OFFENCE around the globe, whilst your children are dying because your idiot BUSH will not spend a mere 35 billion dollars for SCHIP ! Get your priorities right ASAP.

[ziparmux]

No Zipar... HERE. You are HERE. The UK is where your keyboard and refrigerator are...

Regards


Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:58 AM : Oct 27, 2007

YES you''re right of course

[rerrorislam3]

Posted by ziparmux at 05:34 AM : Oct 27, 2007

it is fascist nazi terrorislam that stirred a hornets nest

the Iraqi war is legal, demonic-rat hero oscar, emmy, nobel prize winning al bore says so,,,
it actually never ended since it only stopped by the signing of a ceasefire,,, just like the korean war,,,

the resumption of hostilities was only a matter of time since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement,,,

blame saddam for iraq,,, Even clintoon and the dems wanted the resumption of hostilities back in 1998,,,

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq''s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

Moreover, no international law can prevent the United States from taking actions to protect its vital interests, when it is manifestly clear that there is a choice to be made between law and survival. I believe, however, that such a choice is not presented in the case of Iraq. Indeed, should we decide to proceed, that action can be justified within the framework of international law rather than outside it. In fact, though a new UN resolution may be helpful in building international consensus, the existing resolutions from 1991 are sufficient from a legal standpoint. - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore092302sp.html

[ziparmux]

To: Nancy_Naive

and yet, here (wherever here is) you are....

UK

[ziparmux]

If you want immunity from censorship -- START your own site.

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:13 AM : Oct 27, 2007

Work in progress Nancy_Naive. I am not an IT specialist and finding getting to grips with PHP/MYSQL etc, etc, quite a challange, have invested heavily in the project, all I have actually, and will launch it soon. I need help actually so anyone out there..... ! The truth needs to be disseminated, and a place for the world to debate without censorship has become a place so imperative for all of humanities sake, it''s become my lifes work now to see that it is done.

[ziparmux]

two fascist nazi terrorislamistic countries down, iran next, then syria, then???

Bashar Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looking for spider holes hahaha


Posted by rerrorislam3 at 05:01 AM : Oct 27, 2007

Sorry to break the REAL news to you, Iraq was a dictatorship, not a NAZI state, and well it hasn''t been put down as you have commentated. The US has stirred up a hornets nest in that region and generations of your children will have to clean up the mess there. Actually when Iraq does get on it''s feet if meddlers outside of it''s borders let them get on with it, they will bounce back and bite you on the butt, and believe me you do not want to be stung by a hornet :) You could have taken Saddam out with ONE bullet, not ''Shock and Awe'', hmmm the reality is that the shock is being felt within the US, and the awe, well we''re going to have to wait a LONG time to experience that.