Bombs in Boobs

 A couple of years ago, I raised the spectre of terrorists developing bombs for use in boobs.  Seems the idea was not so far-fetched after all:

Heathrow Airport staff have been warned that women could conceal dangerous explosives in their breasts. Photo: ALAMY - The Telegraph

 

From Homeland Security News Wire:

Published 23 August 2013

Boob bombs: breast implants suicide bomb a threat to aviation

Security checks at Heathrow Airport have been beefed up this past week following “credible” intelligence that al Qaeda operatives may use a new method to attack airlines flying out of London: explosives concealed in breast implants. This would not the first time Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) chief bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, has sought to use the human body as a hiding place for explosives. In September 2009, al-Asiri sent his younger brother on a suicide mission in Saudi Arabia. He built a bomb which could fit in his brother’s anal cavity, and sent him to kill the Saudi deputy interior minister, who at the time was in charge of hunting down al Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia. The worry about medically implanted explosives has already led airports to use behavioral analysis to augment detection methods already in use to screen people. Body scanners are good at identifying things outside the body but not inside.


Heathrow Airport security has been on high alert amid reports of a new type of terrorist threat to aviation: explosives concealed in breast implants.


The Telegraph reports that security checks have been beefed up following “credible” intelligence that al Qaeda operatives may use the method to attack airlines flying out of London.


One Heathrow security staff member told the Telegraph: “There are genuine fears over this.


“We have been told to pay particular attention to females who may have concealed hidden explosives in their breasts.


“This is particularly difficult for us to pick up but we are on a very high state of alert.

[...]


The worry about medically implanted explosives has already led more airport to use behavioral analysis to augment detection methods already in use to screen people at airports.


Body scanners are good at identifying things outside the body but not inside....

You KNOW there is more, much more, here.


 Are YOU paying attention?