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2011-07-06 Terror Networks

US Intel: Terrorists may surgically implant explosives inside bombers

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Posted by Frozen Al 2011-07-06 11:51|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I assume the TSA will start having it's thugs begin doing exploratory surgery on 'randomly' selected grandmothers and infants to be sure they're not implanted.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-07-06 13:00|| 2011-07-06 13:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Snark of the day!

Posted by Steve White 2011-07-06 13:04|| 2011-07-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Many decades ago, I read a science fiction short story about a time when people were surgically and psychologically modified to become human terminators. It was told from the point of view of a police officer who was trained to spot and terminate such anti-humanoids. In the end, he became just such a terminator without modifications because he believed there was no hope.
Is this where we are heading? A true end of almost any type of civilization?

Posted by sam3rd 2011-07-06 14:55|| 2011-07-06 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think igniting surgically implanted explosives is very easy. There are a lot of ways to do it, e.g., electronic communication, injected chemicals, timed, but each has problems. Another difficulty is that the body inside-which the bomb has been placed will act as a cushion so the bomb would have to be very powerful to do damage.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-07-06 15:20|| 2011-07-06 15:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Silentbrick: You kid, but others have already suggested that the TSA will use this as an excuse to subject the public to even further abuses. In short, all people with surgical scars, even c-section scars, will get extra scrutiny.

Got scars?

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-06 16:03|| 2011-07-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Oddly enough, while terrorists may not be able to pull this off too effectively (they already tried to assassinate a Saudi Prince with a rectum bomb), the US is capable of covertly implanting a jihadi with a bomb to take out very high value targets, such as Zawahiri.

That is, they would drug a captured al-Qaeda they suspected could find Zawahiri, then use laparoscopic (through the navel) surgery, to implant a sizable high explosive charge in his abdomen.

Then they would fake an injury, like an extremity fracture, by injecting a joint in the area with some temporary irritant to make it painful for a few weeks, and putting it in a cast. This would distract him from any other feelings of discomfort from his real surgery.

Then provide him with some high value if fake intelligence information "by accident", and arrange for him to escape from prison. The information would likely be that someone close to Zawahiri is informing on him, so telling anyone except Zawahiri would not work, as the traitor would intercept the message.

It would be essential that the surgical implant would also be able to send real time audio ELINT, once the al-Qaeda is "back in the zone", and out of surveillance. So the bomb could be detonated by a signal once he was close enough to the target.

As much as this sounds like something out of a spy novel, with a thousand variations this would be one way of nailing somebody the hard way. When other ways don't work. It took a decade just to find Osama, and that is too long.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-06 16:25|| 2011-07-06 16:25|| Front Page Top

#7 They had this 'surgical bomb implant into little kids' scenario as a premise in the movie 'Hurt Locker', so I don't know if it's a new method or not.

Then again, maybe H*llyweird is complicite here.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-07-06 16:28|| 2011-07-06 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Anonymoose, it was only about half sarcasm. At this point, I wouldn't put anything past the TSA or the Idiot in the WH. It's like seeing an accident, sorta of fascinating to watch while being horrible.

There's seriously times when I just want that last straw to break so we can all go insane.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-07-06 16:36|| 2011-07-06 16:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Rectum? Nearly killed him.

Bomb hidden under the boob, squeeze to set it off. Well, just gonna have to, uhum, squeeze and think of England.

IIUC, this technique has been tried for years, especially using animals, by the narco smugglers. I think the problem they had is the person would become so ill or be so drugged that they stood out, hence the move to animals. But as I've said, it has been years since...

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-07-06 17:45|| 2011-07-06 17:45|| Front Page Top

#10 HMMMM, HMMMM, I don't mind saying that I've had a number of personal Dreams/Visions about this topic from years ago - A PROB FOR ME IS THAT, AFTER ALL THIS TIME, I'M NOT SURE ON THIS ONE AS TO THE SPECIFIC CAUSE OR SOURCE, I.E. GOD, GUAM TAOTAMONAS, ........ INTEL-PYWAR [FBI-CIA-DOD, etc Xperimentation].

[MACAULAY CAULKIN, MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, + OWG PAULA "YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER" ABDUL here].

D *** NG IT, PAULA, STOP WAGING JIHAD ON THE BACKYARD + HELP YOUR OLD DADDY REMEMBER!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-06 19:43|| 2011-07-06 19:43|| Front Page Top

#11 This is also the plot of one of Charles McCarry's Paul Christopher novels.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-07-06 21:05|| 2011-07-06 21:05|| Front Page Top

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