Posted on 02/10/2006 7:04:06 PM PST by Fred Nerks
LOL! Hambali was stopped by a Muslim street vendor in the Thai city of Ayuthaya. Hambali was buying food from the vendor and the vendor overheard him talking about a terrorist attack. The vendor called up the local cops and he was arrested. Later they found out who he was.
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Interesting. One has to wonder if the CONOP for this is to leave the shoe on during detonation or plant the shoe and barefoot it out of the blast zone. With these islamist wackos, one could never tell.
Bump
There was a guy (Brian Lambert, EX- media columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press) on the radio last night who actually asked 1 How do we really know this happened, 2 why did they have a bomb?
AAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG
I mean (Lord knows) I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree (feel free to disagree) but it took me all of 5 seconds to figure it out.
I'm getting up in years, lad. My hair is white now, and my hands aren't as steady as they were. If my grandaddy told me truly, he could remember when journalists reported news instead of fiction. Three or four reporters still did report news when he was a youth, he said.
Dad drat the cat, Hattie, where did you put my cane and my scarf?
After they revealed this info about the shoe bombs, I have to wonder if there might have been other terrorists on Richard Reed's flight, or was he just a test to see if they could sneak the shoe bombs through security.
Maybe all the security and having people take off their shoes actually caused them to abort their plot?
BTT
"I thought the most interesting part of this story was the explanation (finally) of what the shoe bombs are for.
They are cockpit breaching devices."
Agreed.. that was never clear to me before.
What I still don't understand is why is this story breaking now - what happened to make the president reveal it now.
After all, the standard for nonfiction is pretty low . . . all a writer has to do to qualify his/her work as "nonfiction" is simply to not classify it is fiction!Who, after all, could meet the standard of "nonfiction" if everything they said had to prove true in hindsight?
Thank you, that's exactly the reason I posted it.
To get really cranky, check out some of the left's stories relating to Nuradin Abdi.
In this case maybe the shoe bombs were planned to be used to breach the cockpit but if I remember correctly Richard Reid was still sitting in his seat while attempting to detonate his shoe bomb. Which means he wasn't exactly too worried about breaching the cockpit.
If Richard Reid is the best they can do, I don't think we have too much to worry about.
I bet he was a test of getting the stuff on board.
I would agree with that statement especially considering that Reid(the failed shoe bomber) was the one instructing this cell on the use of shoe bombs.
But I think we still have to assume that even these DUmbasses are bound to get lucky once in awhile and we need to remain vigilant.
BFLR
"I am wondering, how many more have died since then as the result of the cult of muhammad?"
Far too many. Terrorist thugs like Arrafat should never be elevated to the stature of statesmen. They should me marginalized, hunted down and destroyed.
That's not how Reid tried to use his. I imagine their uses could be tailored based on the amount of explosives and potentially shaped charges.
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