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MelissaWV
03-24-2010, 07:36 AM
We joked about this before, yet here we are... (from FoxNews via The Sun):


Radicals' deadly 'booby trap'By RHODRI PHILLIPS

Published: 23 Mar 2010
FEMALE suicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.

The shocking new al-Qaeda tactic involves radical doctors inserting the explosives in women's breasts during plastic surgery — making them "virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines".

It is believed the doctors have been trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals before returning to their own countries to perform the surgical procedures.

MI5 has also discovered that extremists are inserting the explosives into the buttocks of some male suicide bombers.

Lethal

Terrorist expert Joseph Farah claims: "Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaeda are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery."

The lethal explosives called PETN are inserted inside plastic shapes during the operation, before the breast is then sewn up.

The discovery of these methods was made after London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came close to blowing up an airliner in the US on Christmas Day.

He had stuffed explosives inside his underpants.

Hours after he had failed, Britain's intelligence services began to pick up "chatter" emanating from Pakistan and Yemen that alerted MI5 to the creation of the lethal implants.

A hand-picked team investigated the threat which was described as "one that can circumvent our defence".

Top surgeons have confirmed the feasibility of the explosive implants.

One claimed: "Properly inserted the implant would be virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines.

"You would need to subject a suspect to a sophisticated X-ray.

"Given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet, and would be a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot it with the usual body scanner."

Explosive experts allegedly told MI5 that a sachet containing as little as five ounces of PETN could blow "a considerable hole" in an airline's skin, causing it to crash.

(emphasis mine... I guess this is where we're headed? Reminds me of Total Recall.)

Danke
03-24-2010, 07:42 AM
"Terrorist expert Joseph Farah claims"

LOL

brandon
03-24-2010, 07:49 AM
I just don't understand why we obsess about this so much. How many people were killed in the US last year by regular old fashioned murder? How many were killed by terrorists?

How many planes crashed due to mechanical failures in the last decade? How many crashed due to bombs?

A. Havnes
03-24-2010, 07:55 AM
I just don't understand why we obsess about this so much.

'Cuz the terrorists is gonna bring down da United States o' America! They wantses to killz us for no good reason!

Oh, and I bet they'll find a way to detect those devices without an x-ray. Just give all women seeking air transportation a very thorough pat-down. ;)

fisharmor
03-24-2010, 08:23 AM
Life imitates art.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/TSAAgain.shtml

Elwar
03-24-2010, 08:29 AM
TSA jobs are a field day for the pervs...first they get to watch scanner porn, now they get to give some thourough inspections to every big titted lady that comes through.

MelissaWV
03-24-2010, 08:30 AM
'Cuz the terrorists is gonna bring down da United States o' America! They wantses to killz us for no good reason!

Oh, and I bet they'll find a way to detect those devices without an x-ray. Just give all women seeking air transportation a very thorough pat-down. ;)

A pat-down is not going to find 5 oz. among regular breast tissue, and not every implant is a bomb.

* * *

"We" don't naturally obsess about this stuff. The Government does because it gives them excuses to implement things "for our safety." The media does it because it's more glamorous to report on gory endings than mundane ones. "We" obsess over it, in the end, because we're bombarded by it in the media and affected by the regulations put in place to "prevent" it from happening. I think it also feels like we can control it. If we're vigilant enough, we can keep the terrorists from blowing us up! It is a lot easier to "prevent terrorism" than it is to alter diet and exercise (and postpone death at the hands of heart attacks, for instance), and no one can entirely prevent a determined assailant from murdering them.

pacelli
03-24-2010, 08:31 AM
First they got the pornoscope, next they get to engage in frotteurism.

TSA = To Sexually Assault

tangent4ronpaul
03-24-2010, 08:33 AM
I'm calling BS!

A X-Ray is going to see a breast implant.

How the heck would you set something like that off?

Also, considering the uh, "dress code" for women in those parts, I kind of think breast implants might be a bit rare....

-t

ChaosControl
03-24-2010, 08:41 AM
Yay, an excuse to make even more invasive technology and put it to use.

Perpetual war, prevent a surplus of resources so that the masses always need their "protectors". Seriously 1984 is too damn real.

MelissaWV
03-24-2010, 08:49 AM
I'm calling BS!

A X-Ray is going to see a breast implant.

How the heck would you set something like that off?

Also, considering the uh, "dress code" for women in those parts, I kind of think breast implants might be a bit rare....

-t

The article says an x-ray would see it, but current scanners would not.

How to set it off? That's not actually as difficult as you might think, and adding in the fact that someone setting off an explosive device that would bring down a plane is not really concerned about their welfare, it opens up even more possibilities.

The dress code doesn't prohibit women from having breasts, just showing them off :p

But yeah... the fact this CAN be done doesn't even remotely mean it WILL be done, and certainly doesn't justify planning around it. It's just another excuse.

jmdrake
03-24-2010, 09:12 AM
I'm calling BS!

A X-Ray is going to see a breast implant.

How the heck would you set something like that off?

Also, considering the uh, "dress code" for women in those parts, I kind of think breast implants might be a bit rare....

-t

Well I call BS just because the expert is Joseph Farah.

That said an implantable defibrilator could theoretically have enough juice to set someone off. And even if it didn't, it would be hard for some TSA tech to tell the difference between a defibrilator and some more nefarious device. And it doesn't matter if the x-ray sees the implant or not. What matters is if the X-ray can tell the difference between a harmless silicon or saline implant or the dreaded "liquid explosives". And what does the dress code have to do with any of this? Just because a woman can't show her breasts off in public doesn't mean that her husband might not want, or even demand her to get breast implants.

That said, this is all ridiculous. We're supposed to believe that a terrorist group supposedly more brilliant than the best special forces in the world* is so stupid that they can't think of targets to attack where the could cause mass casualties and wouldn't have to go through million dollar screening devices. The truth is they want to get us used to accepting the most humiliating theatrics to get onto an airplane before the full security dragnet is rolled out.

Regards,

John M. Drake

*The reason AQ must be more brilliant than our own special forces is that everyone keeps saying the government is too incompetent to have carried out 9/11. Therefore 19 cavemen must be more competent.

angelatc
03-24-2010, 09:25 AM
"Terrorist expert Joseph Farah claims"

LOL

I have that on my clipboard because I copied it before scrolling down. No need to paste it - you're already on it.

Farah is a goof.