Sigh... I just read that now it is THE LAW that they xray your shoes even though the xrays do not find the bombs in shoes.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...120.xml&coll=2

Report: X-rays unable to detect shoe explosives

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Leslie Miller
Associated Press

Washington -- X-ray machines used to screen passengers' shoes are unable to detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening.

Findings from the report did not stop the Transportation Security Administration from announcing Sunday that all airline passengers must remove their shoes and run them through X-ray machines before boarding commercial aircraft.

The shoe-scanning requirement was ordered as the government fine-tunes new security procedures since British police last week broke up a terrorist plot to assemble and detonate bombs aboard as many as 10 airliners crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Britain to the U.S. Among the new procedures are a ban on liquids and gels in airline passenger cabins, more hand searches of carry-on luggage, and random double screening of passengers at boarding gates.