Shoe Bomb

On a bright Saturday in August almost 25 years ago, Kevin Skelton was rejoining his family shopping for new school shoes in Omagh's town centre when a massive bomb went off.

Blood-stained chairs, scattered ball bearings and shoes shed by the dead, wounded and panicked bore testimony Monday to the carnage caused by a suicide bombing at a Pakistan political event.

A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the September 11 attacks but didn't detonate them because he was saving the bomb for an attack over America.

The latest warning to airlines about shoe-bomb threats is a product of heightened US concern about al-Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, whose leaders include a technically-savvy bombmaker, US security sources said on Thursday.

US authorities issued a warning on Wednesday to airlines flying to the United States to watch out for militants who may have hidden bombs in their shoes, US government sources said.

A day after a Trinamool Congress district president allegedly asked partymen to attack police with bombs and burn houses of independent candidates, a party MP on Thursday asked TMC activists to "beat up CPI(M) workers with shoes".

A Pakistan MP escaped an assassination attempt on Friday when a bomb planted in his shoe exploded as he put them on outside a mosque after prayers, officials said.

Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.

A month after Minister of State for Home Ramesh Bagwe created a controversy by holding the shoes Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had taken off near an Ambedkar statue, the minister has come up with an explanation. He says he was afraid terrorists could plant a bomb in Gandhi's shoes if they were left unattended.

On a bright Saturday in August almost 25 years ago, Kevin Skelton was rejoining his family shopping for new school shoes in Omagh's town centre when a massive bomb went off.

Blood-stained chairs, scattered ball bearings and shoes shed by the dead, wounded and panicked bore testimony Monday to the carnage caused by a suicide bombing at a Pakistan political event.

A British man testifying in the terror trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law said Tuesday he flew on planes over the Middle East and Europe with explosives in a shoe after the September 11 attacks but didn't detonate them because he was saving the bomb for an attack over America.

The latest warning to airlines about shoe-bomb threats is a product of heightened US concern about al-Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, whose leaders include a technically-savvy bombmaker, US security sources said on Thursday.

US authorities issued a warning on Wednesday to airlines flying to the United States to watch out for militants who may have hidden bombs in their shoes, US government sources said.

A day after a Trinamool Congress district president allegedly asked partymen to attack police with bombs and burn houses of independent candidates, a party MP on Thursday asked TMC activists to "beat up CPI(M) workers with shoes".

A Pakistan MP escaped an assassination attempt on Friday when a bomb planted in his shoe exploded as he put them on outside a mosque after prayers, officials said.

Terrorists may have used hard-to-detect plastic-based explosive PETN in Wednesday's Delhi High Court blast - the same substance used in the underwear bomb plot on a 2009 Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and by the 'shoe bomber'.

A month after Minister of State for Home Ramesh Bagwe created a controversy by holding the shoes Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had taken off near an Ambedkar statue, the minister has come up with an explanation. He says he was afraid terrorists could plant a bomb in Gandhi's shoes if they were left unattended.