Surgically implanted explosive device
In May 2012 American counter-terrorism officials leaked their acquisition of documents describing the preparation and use of surgically implanted improvised explosive devices.[1][2][3] The devices were designed to evade detection. The devices were described as containing no metal, so they could not be detected by xrays.
Security officials referred to bombs being surgically implanted into suicide bomber's "love handles".[1] In August 2009 Abdullah al-Asiri, the younger brother of Ibrahim al-Asiri, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's chief bomb-maker tried to assassinate a Saudi prince with bomb inserted up his anus. That effort was a failure, inflicting relatively slight wounds on the prince.
According to The Daily Mirror UK security officials at MI-6 asserted that female bombers could travel undetected carrying the explosive chemicals in otherwise standard breast implants.[4]
The bomber would blow up the implanted explosives by injecting a chemical trigger.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daniel Klaidman, Christopher Dickey (2012-05-14). "Ibrahim al-Asiri: The Body Bomb Menace". [[Daily Beast]]. http://www.thedailybeast.com//content/newsweek/2012/05/13/al-qaeda-s-body-bombs-al-asiri-s-next-threat.html. Retrieved 2012-05-14. "Newsweek has learned that U.S. intelligence officials circulated a secret report that laid out in vivid detail how doctors working for al-Asiri had developed the surgical technique. An American government source familiar with the report described it as 15 to 20 pages, single spaced, and replete with schematics and pictures. “It was almost like something you’d see in Scientific American,” the source said." mirror
- ↑ David Pescovitz (2012-05-14). "You da bomb! (surgically-implanted explosives)". Boing boing. http://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/youre-the-bomb-surgically.html. Retrieved 2012-05-14. "According to Newsweek, US intelligence officials report that al Qaeda's explosives expert Ibrahim al-Asiri and medical doctors have been designing bombs to be surgically implanted into the bodies of suicide bombers. The idea is that the technique would somehow foil airport scanners. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "You da bomb!"" mirror
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anissa Haddadi (2012-05-14). "Al-Qaida’s ‘Body Bombs’ increase Fears of Global Attacks by Master Bomb-Maker Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri". International Business Times. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/340801/20120514/al-qaida-s-body-bombs-increase-fears.htm. Retrieved 2012-05-14. "Experts and intelligence sources say the terrorists could use the powerful explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, known as PETN and insert it in the bodies of would-be suicide bombers. According to reports they would then be able to detonate the implanted explosives via injections. The bombs would not be detectable to airport body scanner, increasing risks of attacks similar to the 2011 September attack on the Twin Towers in New York and on the Pentagon." mirror
- ↑ "Breast bombers: Doctors trained to plant explosives inside chest of female suicide bombers". The Daily Mirror. 2012-05-14. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/doctors-trained-to-plant-explosives-inside-832010. Retrieved 2012-05-14. "MI6 chiefs believe doctors have been trained to plant explosives inside the breasts of female suicide bombers." mirror
