Posted on 09/29/2009 8:34:51 AM PDT by MissesBush
Security officials are concerned over a tactic newly employed by al Qaeda. Sheila MacVicar reports suicide bombers are now storing explosives inside their bodies in order to avoid detection.
Suicide bomber Abdullah Asieri, avoided detection by two sets of airport security and palace security by smuggling a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator in his rectum.
Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.
To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.
How did he do it?
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 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.
The bomber persuaded the prince he wanted to leave al Qaeda, setting a trap.
Al Qaeda has an animated movie showing the meeting between the bomber and the prince. Asieri says more senior al Qaeda figures want to surrender and convinces the prince to talk to them on a cell phone.
In the conversation recorded by al Qaeda, you hear a beep in the middle of two identical phrases that are repeated by the bomber and his handler.
Explosives experts tell CBS News that beep was likely a text message activating the bomb concealed inside Asieri.
The Trojan bomber hands the phone to Prince Mohammed. He's standing next to him, and 14 seconds later, he detonates.
"This is the nightmare scenario," said Chris Yates, an aviation security consultant.
On a plane at altitude, the effects of such a bomb could be catastrophic. And there is no current security system that could stop it.
"Absolutely nothing other than to require people to strip naked at the airport," said Yates.
And al Qaeda says it will share its new technique via the Internet very soon. There is nothing that can stop that either.
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Store stuff there is real dedication to the cause.
Palace guard have to look for suspects that ‘walk kinda funny’.
That’s what I call an IMPROVISED explosive device.
I said this after Richard Reid. What if they start shoving them up their butt?
Ah yes, the ol’ “stink bomb”.
How about dogs? Still they could set it off in the airport.
Oh, sh*t.
“And there is no current security system that could stop it.”
Not true.
Do as the Israeli’s do... look for the person(s) who is a risk, not the device.
BTW, the Israeli system works, too!
That's one way of finding this cr@p.
...damn near killed him!
Of course. It's alimentary.
I have a feeling something is going to blow up sooner rather than later. A little unnerving as I have to fly over the pond at some point this year, probably four times.
I wont mention any names ,but some people(we all know who ) have bubble butts that could carry enough explosives to take down most any Government building.
How about a disincentive? If you are caught before you detonate then you will have the flesh stripped from your body and you will be fed to pigs, piece by piece, until you die. Then your wife and children will be executed in a similar manner. Those muzzie bastards might understand that!
Great!...Everytime we fly now we’ll get a free rectal exam!...thank you Al Qaeda...
It is scary. You know it’s coming. Of course this country won’t pretend to do anything about it until a few hundred lose their lives.
LOL. Well ws he walking a bit funny?
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