The experts in terrorism state, "airlines continue to be a target of terrorists wishing to make a spectacular impact with an attack". Rather than hijacking the plane, the focus of terrorist groups have switched to just bombing the entire aircraft. In fact, just a couple of weeks after the 9/11 occurrence, Richard Reid pleaded guilty to having a bomb embedded into his shoe.
Although the security requires the passengers to be X-rayed without shoes before boarding, many terrorists still manage to bypass this detection. This warning was issued to make the airports perform more thorough searches on the passengers before allowing them access to the aircraft.
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This is a very interesting topic. The airports should be checking shoes because it is a very real possibility for someone to hide an explosive in their shoe. Airports need to become aware of this and do more thorough searches. This is a very good post with good information, but next time you do a blog post I would like to hear what your thoughts on the article are. Overall, I really like this post.
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