Jihadists plan attack with bombs inside their bodies, to foil new airport scanners

Jihad Watch ^ | January 31, 2010 | Robert Spencer

[La Lydia]

As I wrote here in December: "One thing we have seen over the years since 9/11 is that airport security is always one step behind the jihadists: after jihadist Richard Reid attempted to set off a bomb hidden in his shoes, we all have to take off our shoes and send them through security scanners. After a group of jihadists tried to sneak onto planes explosive chemicals hidden in drink bottles, we can't carry drinks through airport security terminals. Because Abdulmutallab attempted his jihad attack just before the plane landed, now we can't get up during the last hour of the flight. The one thing that the TSA should have learned, but hasn't, is that next time the jihadists will do something else, not just repeat what they did before. And even if every passenger were given a full body cavity search, they will find some way to get around it. But attempt a new approach based on sensible profiling? The TSA would rather fold up shop altogether."

And just imagine if the Islamic jihadis turned all this energy and ingenuity to something constructive, instead of devoting it all to devising new ways to murder people.

"Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners," by Christopher Leake for the Mail On Sunday.

Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide 'body bombers' with explosives surgically inserted inside them. Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines, Underground trains and buses by secreting bombs in bags, shoes or underwear to avoid detection.

But an operation by MI5 has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting 'surgical bombs' inside people for the first time. Security services believe the move has been prompted by the recent introduction at airports of body scanners, which are designed to catch terrorists before they board flights.

It is understood MI5 became aware of the threat after observing increasingly vocal internet 'chatter' on Arab websites this year. One security source said: 'If the terrorists are talking about this, we need to be ready and do all we can to counter the threat.'

A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.

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....

[La Lydia]

Another reason to bar them from flying.

[Bringbackthedraft]

A small watch battery, two thin pieces of copper wire, a small cap, C4 type explosive in a condom, and boom goes the seat and the Jihadist???

[Bringbackthedraft]

A small watch battery, two thin pieces of copper wire, a small cap, C4 type explosive in a condom, and boom goes the seat and the Jihadist???

[TLEIBY308]

Beware of muslim women with big boobs.

[ReformedBeckite]

I guess they will just have to turn up the scanning power a little higher until they can see a persons bones.

[LostInBayport]

A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.

Coming soon to an airport check-in line near you: Stirrups, rubber gloves and mammogram machines, all to be used on you by low-level government employees.

But at least we're not profiling, and respecting 'diversity'! Hooray for political correctness! Everyone grab a can of Coke, hold hands and sing!

[wildbill]

Just some more ‘lone wolf’ men with access to petn explosives and a unfathomable reason to give us more ‘man made disasters’.

We can spend billions for ex-ray machines, use the Israeli observational techniques or simply hold all Muslims in quarantine from flying.

But first we have to change the mindset that says Icelandic 70 year old grannies are just as likely to be a lone wolf terrorist as a Muslim male between 18-40.

[Hulka]

And Muslim men, too. . . .all those porky fat-boys wrapped in a sheet have man-boobs. . .is it real or is it C4?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’d guess their empty craniums can hold 4 pounds of PETN. It’s patently obvious their crania aren’t being used for much else.

[SkyDancer]

Butt and boob sniffing dogs???? Call them B&B dogs .....

[duffus]

Beware of Prego muslim women.
You can stash a lot in there if you want to.

[Gondring]

Another reason to bar them from flying.

Who...the living?

Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan
Born United Arab Emirates
Pakistani heritage

NOT Terrorist... told his men to "hit the dirt" and stopped suicide bombers himself

John Phillip Walker Lindh
Born in USA (Washington, DC)
Baptized (Roman Catholic Church)
Raised in USA (Maryland and California)

BAD GUY!
Joined the Taliban

Ayman Abdelrahman Taha
Sudanese-born, son of Abdel Rahman and Amal Ali Taha


GOOD Guy... US Special Forces, doctoral candidate UMass.

Richard C. Reid
British citizen, born in south London
British mother, Jamaican father

TERRORIST
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) [same high-explosive reported for the Detroit incident, a type favored by many terrorist instructors and discussed in this post] with a triacetone triperoxide (TATP) detonator was found in his shoe after was caught trying to blow up the plane he was on.

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
Son of Feroze Khan

NOT Terrorist...

Age 14 on 9/11
Enlisted immediately after high-school graduation, wanting to show that Muslims aren't all fanatics.

Here's a tough one...
"James Michael Ahearn"

Watch out...trick question, with that Irish name...



But... Muslim!
And another of our fallen.

So while these examples might make it seem like you can profile and find bad guys by looking for non-Muslim names and appearances, it turns out that a small fraction of Muslims actually are terrorists, believe it or not, and some non-Muslims actually aren't!

Maybe anyone not under a white marble headstone should be suspect, eh?

And I suppose you want all guns banned because some are misused...

[sam_paine]

Great post. Needs to be repeated on more threads.

[Bobalu]

I thought of a simple and foolproof method to pull
off an attack with an explosive concealed within the body.

Then at the last minute noticed the red “Loose lips sink ships.” notice and reconsidered :-/

BTW: does FR seem slow to respond or is it just me?

[La Lydia]

Of course you couldn’t have known this, but I have posted over and over that they should not be allowed on flights coming into this country. You CAN profile and find bad guys. You have fewer chances of success if you don’t. We are already profiling every day, they just don’t talk about it. We don’t have to look as carefully at Fins as we do at Saudis and Egyptians. At the least, anyone who has ever been anywhere near Yemen should be barred from boarding a plane bound for the United States. There is no universal, inalienable right to travel here. Oh, and your examples are the exceptions, not the rule. Everything I know about the rule I learned on 9/11. IT IS NOT PREJUDICE AND PARANOIA IF THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU.

[puppypusher]

You can’t hide explosives from explosive detection dogs.They will detect it no matter what you do to try and conceal it.

Dogs are able to detect the molecules of explosive residue on your person that a person would never see..

[rawcatslyentist]

"Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners,"

Bio attack dispersal can be easily accomplished by this means. Why do they have so many sick passengers always in the toilet?

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

1. Because of the shoe bomber, we now have to take off our shoes to go through security.

2. Many months back I joked with my older brother that someone was going to set his underwear on fire, and we would be finding ourselves going through security naked. A year later it happened.

3. Now, I expect that in the future, body cavity searches and gastrointestinal scope searches will be added to the nudity search as we go through security. We will need to arrive to the airport 18 hours before flight time. I suggest everybody eat lots of beans before that.

But since our government is reactive rather than proactive because it doesn’t believe in profiling to protect us, this won’t happen until someone explodes oneself from within taking down a passenger jet in the process.

Bringbackthedraft,

You are correct. How about a small watch battery, thin pieces of copper wires, a couple of small caps, and C4 type explosive inserted in each ear or in few hollow teeth or in bones? That would be mind-blowing.

[Uncle Meat]

I can just see them hiding bombs in their rectums detonated by flatulence.Fart bombs they’ll be called.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

You may have something there!!!!

Methane gas can ignite!!!

Nobody but nobody will be allowed on aircrafts again.

Good.

I feel safer already.

But just in case, eat lots of beans.