Exploding boobies

OK, consider the source when determining just how concerned you should be.

World Net Daily: MI5 hunting breast implants of death

Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.

Similar surgery has been performed on male suicide bombers. In their cases, the explosives are inserted in the appendix area or in a buttock. Both are parts of the body that diabetics use to inject themselves with their prescribed drugs.

Huh.

But here’s the thing. Why go to all the bother of surgery? For decades, “drug mules” have been swallowing condoms full of cocaine and the like. Seems to me it’d be easy enough to translate that process into swallowing a whole lot of explosives and one remote control detonator.

Soon enough there’ll be some sci-fi-like situation where the explosives are floating merrily through the terrorists bloodstream. At which point, the TSA will have only a few options:

1) Bring air travel effectively to an end

2) Turn the security search into an intensive operation that includes CAT scans, urine samples and drawing blood

3) Say “Ta Hell wit it” and toss the whole notion of effective prevention, and give passengers a waiver they must sign and small billyclubs to beat the crap out of hijackers

But I suppose the message here is that we are now supposed to view women smooshing their bazooms up against windows as a *bad* *thing.*