Air passengers face full body X-rays after suicide bombers hide devices INSIDE their bodies

Mail Foreign Service ^ | Oct. 6, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

Travellers to Europe face being treated like drug smugglers as security chiefs are expected to recommend new intrusive security measures.

French anti-terror chiefs are expected to propose the new measures, such as full body X-rays or handing in all electronic devices, after a terrorist tried to kill a Saudi prince with a bomb he had inserted into his body.

Al Qaeda's latest ploy was first pioneered by Abdullah Hassan al Asiri, who blew himself apart in Jeddah in late August in an attack on Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi anti-terrorism chief.

The 23-year-old terrorist blew himself into 70 pieces when he detonated the bomb - inserted into his rectum - with a mobile phone.

His body was said to have absorbed some of the impact of the explosion, however, leaving the prince only slightly injured.

However experts claimed such a blast would be catastrophic in the pressurised atmosphere of a passenger jet.

[cripplecreek]

Need a containment area and a means of setting off explosives.

[Mr. K]

We need to coat every surface near an airplane or airport with bacon flavored paint.

simple

[La Lydia]

Where did I store my lead-lined undies?

[Kozak]

Gonna make those lines at screening a lot longer...

[Mr. K]

"Need a containment area and a means of setting off explosives."

And a place a safe distance away with a viewing platform- this sounds like too much fun

[RAO1125]

We’ve known about this for at least three years, the Feds just needed an excuse to push it through and (as usual) they “uncover a dastardly plot” that gives them carte blanche.

Problem>Reaction>Solution

[stuartcr]

You have to figure out who to contain first, don’t you?

[Billthedrill]

Dang it. That’s how I’ve been smuggling my laptop onboard. Oh, well...

[green pastures]

“The 23-year-old terrorist blew himself into 70 pieces when he detonated the bomb - inserted into his rectum - with a mobile phone.”

What are the odds of blowing yourself up into exactly 70 pieces?

I’m thinkin’ it was probably messier than that...

[Navy Patriot]

Ouch.

[cranked]

A precautionary procedure that should have long been implimented.

[Towed_Jumper]

“The 23-year-old terrorist blew himself into 70 pieces when he detonated the bomb...”

That’s almost one piece for each of his 72 virgins.

[JHBowden]

What a lame way to die.

[klb99]

....And somebody actually counted the pieces????

Where is General Black Jack Pershing when we need him?

[luvbach1]

Blew himself into 70 pieces larger than a cockroach.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Were the wires coming out of his anus the giveaway?

[Busywhiskers]

70 pieces...one for each of the 70 virgins.

[colorado tanker]

So this guy was an asshole bomber?

Kinda catchy.

[Political Junkie Too]

Simple solution: make everyone chug down a bottle of prune juice an hour before the flight, and then wait and see what happens.

-PJ