Ass-Assins
New jihadi threat from Ja’Bouti. It’s the butt-bomb menace. NYPost:
WASHINGTON — There’s a new al Qaeda terror technique that has American security experts pooping in their pants — call it the “butt bomb.”
A suicide bomber recently put himself next to a member of the Saudi royal family, having outwitted bomb-detection machines in the palace, to set off an explosion using a charge that had been hidden in his rectum.
The ass-assin, Abdullah Asieri, stashed a pound of explosives and a detonator inside his body in the attack on Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of counterterrorism for the kingdom, the Arab TV network Al Arabiya reported.
Bin Nayef was only slightly wounded in the attempt. The explosion, possibly detonated by a cellphone, killed the bomber.
The technique has astonished security experts, who warn that the United States isn’t equipped to prevent the gross new form of terrorism — and worry such bombers could make it aboard aircraft and blow themselves up mid-flight.
“Standard airport security is not going to detect that,” said terror expert Steve Emerson. “You need a much more intrusive type of X-ray machine that can actually see inside body cavities.”
If the terrorists make TSA look up our bums, I’d say the terrorists have won.
Sounds kind of like sticking bombs up their backsides is a somewhat self-negating tactic. How much high-explosive material can even the most determined jihadi get up there, anyway? Anyone who has any technical expertise in this department, have at it in comments.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda is going to be the butt of a lot of jokes over this. No cruel Rule No. 19 jibes, please. That’s cultural.
Topics: al qaeda, butts, explosives
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:00 pm on Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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November 8th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Crack kills.