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Air bomber's shorts fuse
NY Post ^ | December 29, 2009 | CHUCK BENNETT

Posted on 12/29/2009 3:10:49 AM PST by Scanian

Call them Jihad Jockeys.

These are the explosives-packed underpants worn by Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab (here in a mug shot released yesterday by the US Marshals Service) when he tried to bring down a flight over Detroit - and managed only to set his crotch on fire.

The frighty whities came with a special pouch sewn by al Qaeda's finest seamstresses. In it was a condom packed with 80 grams of PETN, a compound that's a key ingredient in the plastic explosive Semtex. The suicide bomber tried to set it off by using a hypodermic needle to inject it with a powerful acid, while trying to hide his actions by putting a blanket on his lap.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: explosives; petn; terrorists; underwear

1 posted on 12/29/2009 3:10:52 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

I hope they had to amputate what little was left.


2 posted on 12/29/2009 3:18:40 AM PST by SueRae
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3 posted on 12/29/2009 3:24:21 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Scanian
OK.

Yup.

That did it.

I'm officially tired of the pantjihadist story now.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

4 posted on 12/29/2009 3:24:40 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Scanian

So he’ll be spending the rest of his life in prison as something less than a male.


5 posted on 12/29/2009 3:29:52 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: Scanian; All

Story on Drudgereport indicates another man sitting a few rows back video taped the entire flight.

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/80201152.html


6 posted on 12/29/2009 3:42:01 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SeeSharp

“So he’ll be spending the rest of his life in prison as something less than a male.”

He won’t be functioning as a male in prison anyway!


7 posted on 12/29/2009 3:47:19 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: 1776 Reborn
"He won’t be functioning as a male in prison anyway!"

Five bucks says they knock out all his teeth first. Make him a nice bee~yotch.

Then again, given what Islamic breeder~cells our prisons have become, he may get a wounded hero's welcome, too.

I say rub him with pig's blood then hang 'im.

;-/

8 posted on 12/29/2009 3:58:40 AM PST by Gargantua (Appropriate that the re-birth of our great nation be delivered by a woman.)
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To: Gargantua

Yeah it is hard to tell how he will be received. My money is on him getting his death wish.


9 posted on 12/29/2009 4:03:01 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Gargantua

No, he will be a hero to the black Muslim gangs in prison, and they will protect him.


10 posted on 12/29/2009 4:45:56 AM PST by oblomov
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To: Scanian

I’m quite sure we will be treated to constant updates on this poor lad’s condition over the coming weeks and months, but for certain we will hear something on January 8th when he shows up for his BOND HEARING!!!

That’s right, BOND HEARING!!


11 posted on 12/29/2009 5:01:58 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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To: Scanian

Would that diaper bomb be the same one he normally wraps around his head?


12 posted on 12/29/2009 5:19:09 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Hoax and Chains)
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To: 1776 Reborn

Guess 72 Virgins in the afterlife will be kind of a waste for him!


13 posted on 12/29/2009 8:23:25 AM PST by bigiron
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To: Scanian
The head of DHS should flood the internet with recipes for bombs that don't work. Sow confusion in their ranks. Can't you just see Al Qaida digitally signing bomb recipes?

Then we should open training camps for terrorists and teach them bad techniques.

"But in my class they said the lead hijacker carries the bombs!"

"Well in my class they said the lead hijacker never carries the bomb"

"Doesn't anyone have a bomb? Curses, foiled again!"

14 posted on 12/29/2009 8:40:54 AM PST by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: Scanian

TATP - Suicide Bombers’ Weapon of Choice (Used in London, and by Palestinians)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1695442,00.html

TATP is suicide bombers’ weapon of choice
By Philippe Naughton, Times Online
In the occupied Palestinian territories, you can tell who the ‘engineers’ are: they are the ones covered in burn marks who might be missing fingers, or even a whole hand.
The engineers are the bomb-makers for the young suicide bombers sent to kill Israelis by the Islamic militant organisations such as Hamas. And their explosive of choice, triacetone triperoxide or TATP - named today as an explosive used in last week’s London bombings - is the reason for their disfigurement.
TATP’s base ingredients - drain cleaner, bleach and acetone - can be bought easily and without attracting suspicion; its chemical composition is simple; and in its finished form it is almost undetectable by sniffer dogs or conventional bomb detection systems.
For the same reasons that Hamas uses TATP to send suicide bombers undetected into Israel, the al-Qaeda network has adopted TATP for its terror missions abroad. The substance was included as the trigger in the shoe bomb that Briton Richard Reid tried to detonate on a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001, and in the identical device given to Reid’s fellow bomber Sajid Badat, who aborted his mission.
But as the Palestinian bomb-makers will attest - 40 Palestinians are thought to have been killed making or handling the explosive - it is highly unstable and sensitive to heat and friction. Not for nothing is it known as “Mother of Satan”.
As one British explosives expert said today of the news that TATP was involved in the four London blasts: “Frankly, I wouldn’t like to be wandering around with 10lb of TATP on my back.”
That expert suggested that TATP - which does not need sophisticated detonating devices - might have been used only as the trigger for the London bombs, but it could have been the main explosive. “It would be surprising, but then the Jihadis, and al-Qaeda, are always capable of surprising us,” he added.
In Reid’s case, there was a small thread of TATP running through 100 grammes of PETN, a high-grade military plastic explosive, attached to a powder-fuse running through his shoelace. That combination surprised bomb experts - TATP is not the trigger normally used for PETN - but was seen as a sophisticated mixture for avoiding detection.
Although discovered as far back as 1895 by a German scientist, Richard Wolffenstein, TATP’s instability meant it was never taken up militarily or commercially. But it was rediscovered in the West Bank in the early 1980s and soon became an extremists’ staple.
Instructions for making TATP can be found relatively quickly on the internet. Anthony Loyd, a Times reporter, found similar instructions in documents abandoned in an al-Qaeda safe house after the fall of Kabul in November 2001.
TATP is thought to have been used in used in various bomb attacks outside the Middle East, including on a Philippines Airlines flight to Japan in December 1994. It was also used as the trigger in two car bombs detonated in London in July 1994 outside the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish philanthropic institution. Two Palestinian students were later convicted of conspiracy over those bombings.


Countermeasure?: Set up a large vibrating walkway at the checkpoints. Shake ‘em up and see if they go pop!


15 posted on 12/29/2009 10:14:58 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: oblomov

The only thing that will protect him is ADMAX in Florence, CO. 23 hours a day in a solitary cell, 1 hour per day in solitary exercise cage or shower.


16 posted on 12/29/2009 10:28:53 AM PST by CholeraJoe (My baloney has a first name, it's B-A-R-A-K. My baloney has a second name, it's O-B-A-M-A)
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To: SeeSharp

Won’t he be popular.


17 posted on 12/29/2009 8:45:00 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
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