The Homeland Security Department has issued a warning, based on “very recent intelligence,” about shoe bomb terror plots targeting US-bound passenger flights. Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi, a Saudi detainee at Guantanamo, pled guilty to helping with an al Qaeda plot to attack oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz between 2000 and 2002. Jose Pimentel, a Muslim convert and US citizen accused of plotting pipe bomb attacks in New York City to avenge the killing of al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al Awlaki, pled guilty to a reduced charge, avoiding the possibility of life in prison.
