Posted on 08/18/2006 11:08:33 AM PDT by presidio9
U.S. authorities are advising women not to wear gel bras on airplanes as information developed in the foiled London plot points to an expanding role for women in smuggling explosives on to an aircraft.
Authorities at Scotland Yard are questioning a husband and wife, suspects in the London terror plot, about allegations that they were planning to use their baby's bottle to hide a liquid bomb.
Police in the U.K. have recovered baby bottles containing peroxide, including some with false bottoms, from a recycling center close to the homes of some of the arrested suspects.
The use of female suicide bombers has been successful in previous airplane attacks.
When two airplanes went down within minutes of each other in Russia in 2004, officials immediately suspected a terrorist connection. It was later learned that the two suicide bombers were Chechen women. They had both been detained in the airport before boarding their flights but managed to convince airline officials using a little cash and charm to let them on board. Ninety people were killed.
"Black Widows," as they are called by the Russian media, are Chechen women who kill themselves to avenge the deaths of their husbands or other male family members.
There are numerous other examples of the use of female operatives in terrorist operations. Two women with explosive belts were among the hostage takers during the siege of a middle school in Beslan, Russia. Over 300 people were killed; half of them were children.
A woman had planned to blow herself up with her husband in an attack at a wedding in a hotel in Amman, Jordan last year that killed over 50 people. His explosive belt worked, while hers did not.
Maddy Sauer contributed to this report.
This is just beyond absurd. They won't profile Muslims for fear of discrimination, but they are telling all women what kind of bras they can/can't wear?! If they actually start checking for this, there's going to be trouble. And no, I will not put up with bra checks in the 'name of safety'. What about the name of decency and common sense? Can you even imagine a woman being asked to remove her bra because they're afraid she could make a bomb with it? I joked a while ago that we will soon be required to strip down and fly naked or in a government-issued paper gown (after an x-ray and cavity search). If things keep going down this road, my joke won't be far off from reality.
LazAir would be a hit, baby.
"Here at LazAir, if you are Islamic, YOU DON'T FLY. So, come to the safe airlines, non-Islamics. Try out flying without blowing up!"
Now, apparently well-endowed women will become the next "profile" victims.
"ACLU defends Dolly Parton"
Don't all these padded bras violate 'Truth in Advertising' laws?
Oh, the dreaded s$%t-bag bombers..............HA !
A girlfriend suggested I go to a bar with her without a bra under my tight shirt, but I declined. Just looked toooooo sleezy.
Okay, I'll bite...right.
Definitely explosive.
I wish they'd blow up the guy that wrote those commercials...
A) Renounce Allah and Mohammed.
B) Eat bacon.
C) Fart towards Mecca.
and D) Wear a pigskin blanket and lifejacket.
"So, who's your friend?"
:-)
When did the gov. start doing that, and if so is it taking place in all states?
Why couldn't they just use the actual implants as explosives?
Wait a minute...that's almost a serious question...)
don't laugh. there was a Nip/Tuck episode where girls got huge breast implants filled with cocaine in South America and then the drug lord forced the plastic surgeon to remove them when they got to the US!
Not that I've ever needed a gel bra, but I understand it's to make a woman appear more endowed. Sort of false advertising.
Well then what about the other scenario, a 100+ degree day and they start to boil.
Just Damn
OMG.........
Damn, can I keep my gel underwear, or do I have to go back to rolled up socks?
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