MI5 hears Chatter Surgically Implanted Bombs Next Terror Threat

[RamboLiberal]

British military intelligence agency MI5 has uncovered evidence that terrorist groups have begun planning attacks with bombs surgically implanted inside a human body.

The bombs would be surgically implanted into men's buttocks and women's breasts, and could evade traditional airport security. According to The Daily Mail, MI5 became aware of the threat due to chatter on 'Arab websites' earlier this year.

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Experts said the explosive PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate) would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber's body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal.

A shaped charge of 8oz of PETN can penetrate five inches of armour and would easily blow a large hole in an airliner.

According to reports, the move towards bombs being placed inside bodies may be gaining speed. In August 2008, Abdullah al-Asiri, an al-Qaeda militant, passed through several airline security checks with a bomb hidden in his intestine. He later detonated the bomb with a cell phone signal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/surgically-implanted-bomb_n_449258.html

There will always be a way - It's good intelligence work that is the key not so much trying to catch up with screening at airports.

[EOTE]

1. There's only one solution to this.

And that is to perform invasive surgery on anyone who wishes to fly by commercial aircraft. I trust TSA is working on this as we speak.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Nah. Just turn up the dial on the exisiting machines and do full X-rays or MRIs.

Passengers will go along with it just like every other hare-brained "security" measure imposed on them in recent years.

[Ron Green]

2. So, does this mean terrorists are studying surgery, or surgeons are studying

terrorism?

Somehow this doesn't seem very likely.

[Snow Bird]

7. Don't they claim that Ayman al-Zawahiri is

an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group? Maybe we just have to check their eyes for explosives.

Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri

Zawahiri has become as al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman
Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, is often referred to as Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man and the chief ideologue of al-Qaeda.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7216127.stm

[Mari333]

3. I still have duct tape.

I think I am safe, so far.

[NightWatcher]

5. Immediately Ground All Planes!!!

If we are going to go completely batshit insane and foment public opinion based on terra terra terra, it's time we just shut the whole thing down.

Surgically implanted bombers, remote controlled exploding ducks, SkyMall catalogs that can be used to kill by severe papercuts......

I'll be in a cave, comfortable in the fact that the government will stay off (and out of) my ass.


"Welcome to ______Airport, now bend over and spread em"

[FiveGoodMen]

6. The practical thing is to boycott.

Anyone that doesn't really need to fly just shouldn't.