While the news media is pushing the fact that the explosives were functional, I still have questions. I have not heard that anything but the explosive and det cord were there. Also I am not surprised that he had trouble lighting det cord with a match. The other part that makes me think that this was amateur hour. The explosives in the 2 shoes would not detonate together. One would explode before the other and the explosion would destroy the other device.

I have a feeling that the explosive was not C4 but something else. Maybe some from fireworks. That would be much easier to believe that a single individual could come across and still possibly appear as C4. I can understand why we have not heard more, but the government is crasy if it thinks that they will be able to detect all of these types of incidents by claiming that every person is an equal threat. Now start profiling. It won't solve everything but it will be atleast as effective and allow air transport to somewhat function.

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Robert