Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Gel Bras As Worries of Possible Female Bombers Increase

ABC News ^ | August 16, 2006 | Richard Esposito and Anna Schecter

[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.

[Erik Latranyi]

Aah a name caller in addition to a poor security analyst.

You are right. Sorry for the potential name-calling.

However, since you believe you are a superior security expert, how do you propose to identify Muslims for your profiling?

Documentation is a joke and you know it.

[dc27]

That's all well and good for females, but what am I to do with my penile erection pump? I had it installed just before Viagra came along and because it operates on 10W30, I'm not allowed outdoors when it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit or below. Now, I can't even fly anymore unless I first drain my crankcase.

Have you tried Slick 50?

[Junior]

...an expanding role for women ...

I'm sure the author didn't mean to make this play on words, but I found it funny.

[Truth29]

That is a serious question. Picture a female martyr corps in Iran surgically altered and given time to heal before they are sent out on their missions by President Amadinejhad. They used children by the thousands with plastic keys to heaven around their necks to march into Iraqi mine fields to clear the way for their troops. This would certainly be plausible, too.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Hey, they stand for freedom.

www.freedom-bra.com

[Just another Joe]

El Al matches EVERYONE to their luggage. They do not try to sort Muslims from non-Muslims because it is futile.

Yes? And so how is it that El Al has such a good record? I would think that we could take tips from them on how to conduct security.

And yes, El Al DOES profile.
No, they don't profile by religon, but they DO profile.

[Republicus2001]

Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Bras

lolololo - -heh - our version of Sharia law! Harr

[Slings and Arrows]

If they ban supports for boobs, how are those congressmen going to pay for their tickets?

[thoughtomator]

OK look. There's nothing in the Islamic creed that would stop a woman from boarding with a vagina full of plastic explosive or whatever components are necessary to blow up a plane. Women are NOT going to stand for having their privates searched by airport security on the routine basis necessary to stop such a thing, and any man who would allow his sister/mother/daughter/wife to be searched like that is not worthy to be called a man.

The only way to stop this is to act punitively against Islam itself. Make it plain and clear that the next act of Islamic terror will be the last day that Mecca exists. Anything short of that will be insufficient.

[Fighting Irish]

A girlfriend suggested I go to a bar with her without a bra under my tight shirt, but I declined. Just looked toooooo sleezy.

You probably saved the lives of numerous heart patients...

[thoughtomator]

The one on the left is the Muslim. The one on the right is a public health threat.

[MNJohnnie]

Gel bras????? You mean all the high and tight racks I am been marveling at are FAKE?

[LiberalBassTurds]

However, since you believe you are a superior security expert, how do you propose to identify Muslims for your profiling?

I never claimed to be an expert. What I stated was that your test was a weak way to try to show that profiling didn't make sense. But, I'll give your question a go.

First and foremost, trust the experts. We have some outstanding talent to draw from in this country. Seasoned law enforcement people will tell you that profiling works (Think FBI). Heck, common sense tells you profiling works. We all profile on a daily basis we just may not call it that. The only people who insist profiling doesn't work are those on the Left yet they can never document anything that confirms their assertion.

There are methodologies from data mining, biometrics, to human intervention that can reduce the risk of terrorism. We are in the heat of battle now. Whatever means are effective should be used. Over time they will go away, as they always do. For all the whinging I hear about the fascist state of America nowadays there's virtually no difference now versus pre-9/11 as far as personal freedoms go.

We are over-sensitive to the extremus about this issue. Many countries around the world screen passengers a lot harder than we've ever contemplated doing. Try standing behind a non-Westerner or non-Asian and flying into Singapore or Hong Kong. Yet people continue to fly there. It's all a matter of what people are used to, it's about setting expectations.

LBT
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[BlazingArizona]

There are Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 45 plotting to rid the Earth of everyone that doesn't worship Allah

NOT just "men"! Do any other old timers remember Leila Khaled? More recently, there were the two Chechen women who blew up separate Russian flights.

[thoughtomator]

Uh... make that 18 and 35, please. Airsickness is an omnipresent danger.

[thoughtomator]

Yep. Cortex bombs, if they have to resort to them.

[BlazingArizona]

That picture is disgusting...

But her boobs certainly aren't.

[sportutegrl]

First we could no longer fly on the space shuttle with breast implants. Now we can't wear our gel Wonderbra. All my dreams about flying just fell flat.

[colorado tanker]

Clearly, only women with "all naturals" ought to be permitted to fly.

Ladies, remove your tops and form a line to the right for inspection . . . .