Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have reportedly monitored terrorist communications bragging about fitting women suicide bombers recruited by al Qaeda for surgical breast implants filled with explosives.
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“You could certainly put a liquid of any kind in a saline device, and a gel implant theoretically could be opened and replaced with a different type of gel,” said Maryland plastic surgeon Dr. Craig Person.
“I believe that any liquid in a breast implant, or any gel with a silicone-type of implant would be hard to detect with a body scanner,” Person told 9NewsNow.
Terrorism experts agree.
“The federal government has not put into place any system for detecting explosives at passengers’ screening checkpoints,” said Larry Johnson, the Managing Director Of Berg Associates.
The flip side is more encouraging.
“What we’ve seen is, at least, the al Qaeda explosives competence, while they are visionary with their devices, they’re not terribly competent with actually being able to get something to detonate,” Johnson said.
[ From: wusa9.com ]
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Leave A CommentI saw this on the News the other day !!!! this is crazy !!!!
I can’t help but think the body scanner wouldn’t pick up if there was a detonator in the implant… But then again I am not exactly sure how powerful they are. I think this is a threat we probably wont have to worry about for a while, though. ^^;
Explosive detecting dogs cant detect explosive liquids, only explosive detecting lolcats can. =b