Feds Warn Of Explosives Hidden In Shoes

Source: CBS

(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.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/25/eveningnews/main3412587.shtml

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New U.S. Alert for Shoe Bombers

Following the seizure in Europe of hollowed-out shoes containing blasting caps, U.S. authorities have been told to be on the lookout for thick-soled shoes that could be used to conceal explosives, as infamously was the case with convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.

According to a Department of Homeland Security-FBI bulletin issued Wednesday, Oct. 24, European authorities in September 2007 discovered a pair of shoes that were used to smuggle electric blasting caps across international borders for use in a terrorist attack.

"A recent terrorist incident involving the international smuggling of electric blasting caps highlights the continuing use of modified footwear as a concealment method for explosive devices," stated the DHS-FBI Bulletin "Terrorist Use of Modified Footwear to Conceal Explosive Devices."

"Electric blasting caps were placed inside the hollow rubber sole, and the insole was glued to the rubber sole to appear as if the shoe was never modified," it continued. "The blasting caps -- each measuring about two inches in length -- were individually wrapped in paper, possibly to protect them from the glue used when the shoes were reassembled."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/10/new-us-alert-fo.html

I imagine this will be the top "news" of tomorrow.

Although I believe you need a license to just go buy them, they aren't that hard to get. They are used all over the country in construction, farms, all sorts of places.

:wtf:

Is going to be just as willing to hide them in their bum as hide them in a shoe.

I'm just saying.

Anyone with a halfassed knowledge of chemistry can make them.

The writers of "Get Smart" should be on par with Nostradamus.

I swear there must be a dart board in some Pentagon office where a handful of darts are thrown and whichever sticks becomes the 'plot du jour'.

Time for something new; I'm growing weary of reading the same old recycled news.

All our mothers said was "Don't spill that on my rug!"


'Tis a blessing to be Irish. ;)

provided by the DHS.

terra terra terra

They were abandoned then? How about planted? Which European country? What kind of bus, city, charter, what? Planted paranoia to keep the cattle in line to be used when flying?

I'll be glad when the criminals running our government are locked up.

should I report it?