It makes the crotch bomber look benign.
British spies have reportedly found evidence al Qaeda is planning to insert “surgical bombs” inside people for the first time.
Male bombers would have the explosive implanted near their appendix or in their buttocks; women would have them inside their breasts, Britain’s Daily Mail reported over the weekend.
The British intelligence agency, MI5, believes the development was triggered by the introduction of body scanners at airports — and first got wind of the threat from increasingly vocal “chatter” on Arab Web sites.
Here’s how it would work:
The explosive PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber’s body before the wound is stitched up like a normal surgical incision and allowed to heal. The explosive would be detonated by the bomber using a hypodermic syringe to inject TATP (triacetone triperoxide) through his or her skin into the sachet.
News of the terrifying scenario comes in the wake of the failed attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day with a bomb in his underpants.