18yo bomber Iat Alacharas
I just posted a couple weeks ago that all this
airport scanner security is pointless because people will always be able to get things in to places and on to planes… and that a real security includes diplomacy, castigation, and a complete overhaul of our priorities and perhaps our point of view both domestically and around the world. Now it’s been found out that
Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives.
“Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.”
“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.”
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It’s worth pointing out that implanted explosives would be much less effective than external ones. Ever seen old war movies where someone jumps on a grenade to spare his comrades? Bodies have a lot of soft tissue capable of absorbing shrapnel and concussive force.
This is true, however it might also make the blast more directional. It’s fairly easy to turn in your seat to point your snappy new breasts at the hull of the plane you’re riding to hell in.