The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are urging state and local law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for the possible use of shoes to conceal and smuggle explosive components.
The advisory said the Department of Homeland Security and FBI don’t have any “specific, credible intelligence that terrorists plan to use this concealment tactic” in the United States.
So, every fracking talking head on TV is babbling about this – probably because some “unnamed source” in Homeland Insecurity gave them a hot lead.
In a European incident, authorities found electric blasting caps in the hollowed-out soles of shoes that were packed in luggage and crossed international boundaries in a bus, the advisory said.
Anyone dumb enough to walk around with blasting caps in their shoes is likely to blow their feet off before they get close enough to the buffoons with x-ray machines.
The advisory said security personnel should watch out for shoes with thick soles that could be hollowed out to hide explosives, shoes that appear to have been taken apart and reassembled, people walking in an unusual manner and any wires protruding from shoes.
wires protruding from their shoes…? LMAO!
The real question that should be asked here is, “What are they trying to distract us from this time.” Nearly every time they have one of these “Be on the lookout” announcements, something potentially damaging to the White House just happens to be going down. Is this an effort to make people forget that Valerie Plame is on everywhere this week? Or is it something else?
live in fear
I miss out on all this crap because I don’t watch TV news anymore. This is the basic message of the MSM (Main Stream Media): fear fear sex spend spend sex fear spend sex sex fear fear spend. But not necessarily in that order.
What about Condi’s shoes?
[Simpsons’ Cletus on top of a telephone pole] Back yous goes to wait for a woman of less discriminatin’ taste.
And to think he may be more intelligent than many of those fine folks at HSA and the media.
I’ve been in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Santiago this year, and the only place they made me take my shoes off to get on a plane was the US.
The stupidity and ‘security theater” just never stops. And the sheep still buy it.
They caught one shoe bomber, and we know Al-Qaeda likes to reuse plots after they’ve been caught as they had captured someone in the Philippines who planned to hijack a dozen planes and crash them into targets.
Ahhhh… What would Homeland Insecurity and TSA in particular be without their ‘threat-of-the-day’.They’ll probably be so busy looking at shoes they’ll miss those 4.6oz tubes of toothpaste!! Oh the horror!!!
Playing the fear card has one glaring drawback. After a while people get inured to the threats and become complacent.
In fact, there was this news story about this kid in Russia named Peter. He kept telling the village there was a wolf and every time they would all come running. Peter loved the attention. Right up until the day he cried “Wolf” for real and the villagers didn’t want to be fooled again.
I’m sure you all remember the story. Fox Spews gave it a lot of attention back when Clinton was in office. I think they said it was Clinton’s fault too.
Well be happy that guy didn’t try to light his underwear or airport security checks would be really interesting!
Shame it wasn’t some girl trying to light her bra! 😆
Cheers