Reply #34: Where did I say that? [View All]

[pnwmom]

First of all, the word "strapped" is in nothing I said anywhere, but it is being used often by the media in this case -- probably to associate this young women with suicide bombers in Israel.

And second, I didn't say a circuit board looks like a sneaker. I said that a sneaker could hide a bomb, just as a person with a circuit board on a shirt could have a bomb hidden somewhere. The point is that detonators and bomb material can be hidden in any number of places. But they are less likely to be stuck on the front of someone's shirt than to be hidden in an innocuous looking object, like a toy or a shoe.

Again, I'm not saying it was wrong for them to check her out. But it isn't obvious to me why a plain circuit board with no transmitter and with no dangling wires, just wires attached to little LED lights attached to a battery, should be considered more threatening than a plain cell phone.