New Nightmare For Airport Authorities
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society, Travel
If women are able to have hard-to-detect plastic explosives inserted surgically into their bodies, then flying becomes little more than playing a game of Russian roulette.
Just hours after the aborted attempt on Christmas Day to blow up a plane, Britain’s MI5 intelligence service reports that Britain’s worldwide eavesdropping ‘spy in the sky’ agency (GCHQ) began picking up ‘chatter’ emanating from Pakistand and Yemen, concerning lethal breast implants, on Arab websites.
MI5 agents say that Muslim doctors, who were trained at leading UK teaching hospitals, are returning to their native countries to perform surgeries that involve inserting plastic implants containing PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) explosives into women’s breasts and men’s bodies, using the buttocks, or appendix areas.
PETN was used by British shoe-bomber, Richard Reid, who tried unsuccessfully to blow up an American airliner in December 2001. London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came close to blowing up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, when he tried to inject TATP from a syringe, so as to detonate the explosives he had stuffed inside his underpants. Fortunately for the 280 passengers onboard, the fluid had ignited his clothes instead of detonating the explosives.
Jonathan Evans, head of MI5, warns that the body-bombers pose a serious threat to security. Surgeons from the UK’s National Health Service agree that plastic implants are virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines.
A hand-picked team has been appointed by Evans, to investigate a threat which he says “Can circumvent our defense, given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet and would be such a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot”.
Explosive experts at Britain’s Porton Down biological and chemical warfare research centre estimate that just five ounces of PETN in a plastic sachet inside a bomber’s body could easily blow a large enough hole in a fuselage to crash an airliner. Eight ounces of PETN could penetrate five inches of armour.
The bomber could detonate the explosives using a hypodermic syringe to inject TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide) through his or her skin into the explosives sachet. The concern is that it would appear to be a diabetic injecting him/herself.
The urgency now is for more high specification X-ray machines, which can detect body bombs, be placed in ‘hot spots’.
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[...] Only hours after the aborted attempt on Christmas Day to blow up a plane, Britain’s MI5 intelligence service reports that Britain’s worldwide eavesdropping ‘spy in the sky’ agency (GCHQ) began picking up ‘chatter’ emanating from Pakistand and Yemen, concerning lethal breast implants, on Arab websites. Read how the authorities are attempting to combat this new and very real threat… [...]