How do you hijack a plane with a shoe bomb?
From Atrios:
Atrios makes a very good point. Can you rob a bank with a shoebomb? "GIVE ME THE MONEY OR I'LL BLOW MY LEGS CLEAN OFF!"
Stop Making SenseWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush disclosed new details on Thursday of a thwarted al Qaeda plot to use shoe bombs to hijack a plane and fly it into a Los Angeles building, as he sought to justify his tactics in fighting terrorism.
Um, you can't hijack a plane with shoe bombs. You can blow up a plane with shoe bombs.
Q Scott, I wanted to just ask a follow-up about the LA plot. Is there something missing from this story, a practical application, a few facts? Because if you want to commandeer a plane and fly it into a tower, if you used shoe bombs, wouldn't you blow off the cockpit? Or is there something missing from this story?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know what you're referring to about missing. I mean, I think we provided you a detailed briefing earlier today about the plot. And Fran Townsend, our Homeland Security Advisor, talked about it. So I'm not sure what you're suggesting it.
Q Think about it, if you're wearing shoe bombs, you either blow off your feet or you blow off the front of the airplane.
MR. McCLELLAN: There was a briefing for you earlier today. I think that's one way to look at it. There are a lot of ways to look at it, and she explained it earlier today, Alexis, so I would refer you very much back to what she said, what she said earlier today.
Atrios makes a very good point. Can you rob a bank with a shoebomb? "GIVE ME THE MONEY OR I'LL BLOW MY LEGS CLEAN OFF!"
posted by JS at
3:46 PM
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Sometimes "shoe bomb" can mean a bomb concealed in a shoe. A trip to the loo and the shoe can be removed, the bomb assembled and then used to do whatever it is intended to do. Shoes don't have to stay on feet and bombs don't have to stay on shoes. One can logically conclude that a bomb small enough to fit in a shoe is one whose explosion can be confined to a localized area and likely not bring down an airliner, unless it's detonated over the wing or tail fuselage.
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Anonymous, at 3:02 PM
It's also possible that batman, in conspiracy with santa claus, the tooth fairy, and reverse vampires (That can't get moonlight on them) conspired to hijack a plain and crash it into a building that the president can't remember the name of. But that'd also be bullshit
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JS, at 8:43 PM
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