"'This is the nightmare scenario,' said Chris Yates, an aviation security consultant." Sounds pretty scary! What exactly is he talking about? Al-Qaeda suicide bomber Abdullah Asieri, who attempted to assassinate a Saudi prince using a new, silent but deadly technique.
Taking a trick from the narcotics trade – which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities – Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.This brings up a whole range of emotions and concerns, not the least of which is, really, CBS? The "Trojan bomber"? This guy and everyone else who uses this technqiue-al-Qaeda helpfully promises to put a DIY manual on the Internet soon-is going to be known as the "Ass Bomber." Also, is there a worse job in the world than being an Ass Bomber's "handler"? So many questions.This was a meticulously planned operation with al Qaeda once again producing something new: this time, the Trojan bomber.
The blast left the prince lightly wounded – a failure as an assassination, but as an exercise in defeating security, it was perfect.
Threat Level Brown
*hat tip!*
Very nice.
BALK: I'm guessing you'll want to take the ass bomb thing.
CHOIRE: !!!
CHOIRE: Um, no.
BALK: But it's about sticking things up t...
CHOIRE: DISGUSTING!!1! POO. EVERYWHERE.
BALK: Exactly. Purelling now.
I'm shocked we don't think of this stuff. After the whole increased airport security thing, I remember specifically having a conversation with my dad and within 15 minutes we had figured out that liquids in bottles would be a great explosive (it was tried) or a drug-mule thing in a body cavity (it was tried). Now if two average intelligence guys with 6 beers between them can figure this out in 15 minutes... WTF security agencies?
Tom Clancy crashed a 747 into the State of The Union Address. Clearly the greatest threat to our Security is War Porn novelists. (And possibly you and your Dad.)
Meanwhile, I still have to show my driver's license when I walk into many office buildings in New York. I guess that if they had only been checking IDs at the World Trade Center history would have turned out very differently.
Man on Wire would have been much less entertaining?
I was thinking of the Spiderman movie
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4938/is_200110/ai_n18099944/?tag=content;col1
But on the other hand, it is so low yield as to render it more a party novelty than an explosive.
this is a point that bears expanding.
my dad is a retired rocket scientist. as humourous asides, he comes up with more ways to blow things up than i can count. when i was kid he off-handedly gave me the correct air to gas ration for a pipe bomb. he thinks it's funny. but it's not uncommon knowledge. it's not hard to kill people if you really want to. staging a massive display of destruction involving airplanes is.
where are the suicide bombers in the US? have those who want to terrify us just abandoned this method? they just caught a few guys who may have been planning something. is that it?
i suppose this sounds cold. one suicide bomber would be plenty horrifying. but i'm just surprised it hasn't happened more. you'd think if there were really a lot of people who hated our culture that we'd see more of this. but we haven't. i guess dick cheney was right. if your reading this dick, sorry i called you dick so much.
It is a little strange that suicide-bombing is not more common here, at least one the surface. But on closer examination, it makes more sense. There are only two sorts of people willing to blow themselves up to accomplish something: (1) the mentally disturbed, who are unlikely to plan things well enough to cause serious trouble; and (2) people who honestly believe that death in an explosion is a better alternative than continued existence in the time and place in which they come to that belief. We have plenty of the (1), but they are pretty ineffective. We have far fewer of the (2), partially because we DO still have amazing amounts of personal freedoms and easy access to aspiration, even of the political sort,, and partially because you can get pretty good weed pretty cheap. Really, its not so bad here, despite what I sometimes believe.
of course, there is an alternate explanation. it could be that the suicide bombers come over here looking to suicide bomb and then taste some yummy appalachian pepperoni rolls and see cloudy with a chance of meatballs and think 'holy shit, this place is awesome' and decide not blow anyone up.
Who are we? and why don't you think "we" thought of this stuff? And finally, isn't it the government spooks who end up blowing stuff up? The whole idea of a "terrorist" is the way that governments avoid taking responsibility for their own attempts to control their own people.
what'sthatnow?
who are we?
whoa.
Colonasstrophe.
That calls for the super-dooper pooper-scooper.
Maimun Full of Grace.
The A Team?
I feel a South Park episode in this debacle.
ASSassination.
Yet another reason for dogs to sniff my ass.
In a thread full of really funny one-liners, yours made me spit a little.
So, as it stands, we have to take our shoes off.
Does new threat mean we all have to bend over for Seymore Butz, airport proctologist?
Imagine the fallout?
Everyone loses! Terrorists win!
Maybe it's "Trojan Bomber" because they put the assplosives in condoms so they don't get the AIDS from the Semtech?
Which begs the question: Why is there a brand of condoms called "Trojan"? Is this really sending the right message?
"Yeah, baby, I'm wearing a condom... BAM! My warriors are in your coochie, stabbin ur eggz!"
This could lead to anal haunting.
A pound of explosives might just be my limit. Unless it packs as nicely as Burrito King.
Hey! This man seriously loved Allah. Right or wrong you have to respect his commitment to his beliefs. He should not be the butt of our cheap jokes.
Bummer.