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The Butt Bomb -- Al Qaeda's hidden weapon
New Republic ^ | January 7, 2010 | Michael Crowley

Posted on 01/07/2010 5:30:14 AM PST by Zakeet

In the wake of the failed bombing attempt by Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, airport security experts are wringing their hands over how to stop the next underwear bomber. X-ray machines don’t detect the type of explosive, known as PETN, that Abdulmutallab carried. Only a careful pat-down around Abdulmutallab’s crotch, where the explosive had been sewn into his undies, would have detected his deadly cargo. But Abdulmutallab’s al Qaeda handlers knew that pat-downs are rare and that social mores make highly intrusive, crotch-fondling searches almost unheard of. In the wake of the Abdulmutallab episode, however, standards will change. Pat downs will become more common—and more intrusive. We may not see the famous vision of the crazed dictator from Woody Allen’s Bananas—“Underwear shall be worn on the outside!”—but those searches by hand are likely to get a little more, shall we say, intimate.

Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won’t protect us completely—not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an underwear bomb and that is also more alarming: the butt bomb.

The concept is simple. Rather than sew explosives into his underwear, a terrorist might actually plant a bomb, which can weigh as little as a pound, inside his anal cavity. Like drug mules, would-be butt bombers could store the explosives inside a condom.

Sound crazy? Perhaps. But security experts initially believed that a terrorist’s derriere nearly killed a top Saudi Arabian counterterrorism official last fall.

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It stands to reason that a terrorist who wants to down a plane needs only to smuggle his PETN onboard, much like a drug mule with a cocaine-stuffed rectum. After that, he can excuse himself to the lavatory and extract his cargo, then return to his seat to detonate the explosive outside his body.

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If a terrorist does succeed in detonating a butt bomb, airport security might be in for a radical change. You think taking off your shoes is bad? Try bending over for a TSA worker wearing green surgical gloves.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; buttbomb; islam; terrorism; wot
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The green gloves are OK as long as we don't use profiling against swarthy Muzzie types.

1 posted on 01/07/2010 5:30:14 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
"Rather than sew explosives into his underwear, a terrorist might actually plant a bomb, which can weigh as little as a pound, inside his anal cavity."

Barney Frank will lead a fact finding commission and will probe deeply to "get to he bottom of this."

2 posted on 01/07/2010 5:33:30 AM PST by jessduntno ("Speak endlessly and carry a small stick..." - B. Hussein Obama)
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To: jessduntno

LMBO!!


3 posted on 01/07/2010 5:36:58 AM PST by homegroan (ZQczar...happily addicted to the Refresh Button.....)
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To: Zakeet

That’s certainly one way to permanently take care of hemorrhoids.


4 posted on 01/07/2010 5:37:28 AM PST by cajuncow
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To: Zakeet

And yet a Palestinian activist, Salahi and his wife and an African American waltz right into the White House with no CLEARANCE whatsoever.

Heaven forbid a bomb exploded I suspect the pres and his cabal would be blaming that on an inside job too.

And it was, their inside.


5 posted on 01/07/2010 5:38:32 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Zakeet

Islam is an insane murder cult. Period. The rest is P.R.


6 posted on 01/07/2010 5:42:03 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Zakeet

or imagine a scenario where 3 to 4 muslim males have stuff stuck up their a*s, they all go to the restroom, with the last guy combining all ingredients then setting it off in the bathroom, blowing the tail off the plane..

but we gotta keep searchin little old ladies in wheelchairs..


7 posted on 01/07/2010 5:42:30 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A moderate muslim is one who is simply buying time to reload..)
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To: Zakeet
George: He was... touching and rubbing.

Jerry: That's a massage.

George: And then I took my pants off.

Jerry: You took your pants off?

George: For my hamstring.

Jerry: Oh.

George: He got about two inches from... there.

Jerry: Really?

George: I think it moved.

Jerry: Moved?

George: It may have moved, I don't know.

Jerry: I'm sure it didn't move.

George: It moved! It was imperceptible but I felt it.

Jerry: Maybe it just wanted to change positions? You know, shift to the other side.

George: No, no. It wasn't a shift, I've shifted, this was a move.

Jerry: Okay, so what if it moved?

George: That's the sign! The test; if a man makes it move.

Jerry: That's not the test. Contact is the test, if it moves as a result of contact.

George: You think it's contact? It has to be touched?

Jerry: That's what a gym teacher once told me.
8 posted on 01/07/2010 5:45:33 AM PST by Overtaxed Patriot (Lock and load.)
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"....but those searches by hand are likely to get a little more, shall we say, intimate....

Yes, they will. That is why only Muslims who have been profiled should be subject to this treatment. The rest of us should be left alone. There is no reason to subject nuns, elderly white men, etc. to this "treatment." Every Muslim man who gets on an airplane ought to have his underwear, and perhaps his nether parts, "searched" first.

Israeli security expert: "The United States does not have a security system; it has a system for bothering people." That HAS to change.

9 posted on 01/07/2010 5:50:22 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: Zakeet

“Butt Bomb”

heh heh heh heh snort


10 posted on 01/07/2010 6:06:28 AM PST by envisio (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Zakeet

He put his finger on the problem.


11 posted on 01/07/2010 6:06:47 AM PST by AU72
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Well we have the butt bomb, soon to be follwed by the colo-retal bomb. No Shite!

Correct,accurate profiling is in order. Screw the trillions invested in machines. A few good dogs would do the job. They can smell shite mixed with explosives from a half mile away.


12 posted on 01/07/2010 6:10:39 AM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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To: Zakeet

Already been done and Bawney Fwank had nothing to do with this one
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml


13 posted on 01/07/2010 6:11:22 AM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: Zakeet

If Bush were still Prez, the media wouldn’t find this so funny.


14 posted on 01/07/2010 6:11:43 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: Zakeet

Gives a whole new meaning to “Blow it out your ass”.


15 posted on 01/07/2010 6:13:52 AM PST by aragona
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To: Zakeet
In the wake of the failed bombing attempt by Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, airport security experts are wringing their hands over how to stop the next underwear bomber. X-ray machines don’t detect the type of explosive, known as PETN, that Abdulmutallab carried.

Uh, what about something as simple as DOGS! Put them at the airport and on the planes!

Wouldn't the muzzies love that!?

16 posted on 01/07/2010 6:19:29 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT (You can call me "ma'am" !)
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To: Zakeet

where is Sir-mix-a-lot when you need him?


17 posted on 01/07/2010 6:20:22 AM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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To: Zakeet; xzins; blue-duncan
A "Butt Bomb" occurs when you accidentally dial your boss on your Blackberry with your butt while you are talking to a co worker about how your boss is a jerk.
18 posted on 01/07/2010 6:28:33 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Zakeet

Airlines should have signs in the waiting area, in Arabic, that the airplane is equipped with packages of pork products stowed in several undisclosed locations. The fear of being contaminated by this “filth” during an explosion, and perhaps missing out on eternal bliss with 6 dozen virgins, might deter some of these fanatics.


19 posted on 01/07/2010 6:30:04 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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To: Zakeet
I recall a March 2007 episode of South Park where a nuclear weapon a "snuke" was concealed in Hillary Clinton's vagina. link to episode
20 posted on 01/07/2010 6:33:12 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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