BRITAIN suicide bombers with explosives surgically inserted inside them.

[toonfandangl]

BRITAIN is facing a new al-Qa'ida terror threat from suicide bombers with explosives surgically inserted inside them.

Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines, trains and buses by secreting bombs in bags, shoes or underwear to avoid detection.

But an operation by British security agency MI5 has uncovered evidence that al-Qa'ida is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting surgical bombs inside people for the first time.

Security services believe the move has been prompted by the recent introduction at airports of body scanners, which are designed to catch terrorists before they board flights.

It is understood MI5 became aware of the threat after observing vocal internet chatter on Arab websites this year.

The warning comes in the wake of the failed attempt by London-educated Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas Day.

One security source said: "If the terrorists are talking about this, we need to be ready and do all we can to counter the threat."

A leading source added that male bombers would have the explosive secreted near their appendix or in their buttocks, while females would have the material placed inside their breasts in the same way as figure-enhancing implants.

Experts said the explosive PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber's body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal.

Security sources said the explosives would be detonated by the bomber using a hypodermic syringe to inject TATP (triacetone triperoxide) through their skin into the explosives sachet.

PETN – the main ingredient of Semtex plastic explosive – was used by Richard Reid, the British al-Qa'ida shoe-bomber, when he unsuccessfully tried to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in December 2001.

Security sources fear the body-bombers could pretend to be diabetics injecting themselves on airliners, trains or buses in order to prevent anyone stopping their missions.

Mail on Sunday.

[Chris Macpherson]

Wow Thats pretty scarey stuff... FRANK...........

[toonfandangl]

Hello Chris!! yes it gets a bit worrying for frequent travelers, I remember a TV series it was called 'Spooks'........British MI5 people stopping the baddies from ending the world, and there was an episode where a female suicide bomber had the stuff surgically implanted, they MI5 of course stop her from doing it.............. and that was awhile ago so don't think its something the authority's have not thought of. The last time I went through an airport they were pretty thorough in their efforts.

[SandyB]

Scary  stuff , and yes  perfectly possible ... I  even mentioned   it somewhere on this  site   regarding  it as a way  of  getting  rid of  the   now with 20  offspring JZ   ...  now  when   is   someone    going to  try debunk this  as  an internet hoax ...   

[Bob Molloy]

No Sandy, this isn't a hoax, it's another kind of animal we occasionally find in a newspaper. It's called a thumbsuck.

A thumbsuck is born when a journalist is stuck for a story and decides to interview his keyboard.

How does one identify a thumbsuck? Firstly, look at the origin. The story was written by Christopher Leake, Mail on Sunday Home Affairs Editor. The word "Sunday" gives it away. Anything that appears in a Sunday newspaper needs a large pinch of salt before swallowing.

However, all is not lost. Let's look further. Every non-thumbsuck story gives a source, one that can be identified, traced down and checked again for accuracy and validity.

Bingo! It mentions "British security agency M15" as "having uncovered evidence." Hey, we're on to something here.

So was this an official statement by an M15 spokesperson?

Well, no, it just mentioned M15 as a source; it didn't say who actually said it.

Alright, let's not be too demanding here, how did you know the statement really came from M15?

Well, um, I can't tell you my sources. You can see that from the way the story is written; no names, no packdrill.

So the buck stops with you, Christopher Leake, Home Affairs Editor of the Mail on Sunday?

Um, yes. Trust me.

Yes, of course I do Christopher. Let's drop that line of inquiry. Tell me, what "evidence" was uncovered?

Ah, um, well it was "vocal internet chatter on Arab websites"

Sheeiite! On that evidence any surveillance of the Oranjemund website, as Mike has already pointed out, might discover we were discussing suicide bombers. Appearing as a bald statement (and a translation from one language to another, nogal) on the desk of any keen M15 operative it could have us all branded as Al Quaida wannabees.

I can hear the order now: "Jislaaik, Van Tonder, sommer stuur hulle a blerrie drone missile dingus. Die hoof outjie werk daar in die Spar shop. Blits hom goed."

Hmmm again.  Better keep your head down for a while, Mike. 

However, let's not get too faint hearted. Let's stay positive, where there's manure there's bound to be a pony. Remember that bit about tracing and validating the source? Let's do that.

Ah, um, hmmm, this is embarrassing. It stops dead at "a leading source".

Oh, but wait, there's more. There's also "one security source said", and "Experts said", and – getting closer now – "Security sources said" and if we dig deeper it gets really scary with "Security sources fear".

Never mind the security forces, I fear that if Christopher Leake doesn't keep his thumb out of his mouth he is in dire danger of carpal tunnel syndrome, Bertie will tell you that such a condition hurts like hell.

My view? It's all of a piece with the Power of Nightmares scenario (Google it up, folks).

In the old days the Roman elite gave the masses bread and circuses (throw another Christian to the lions, Polonius, the slaves are getting restless). That kept them in check until another war could be drummed up.

Today with democracy it's more difficult. Literacy, or what passes for it in today's world, allows the masses to read even if they comprehend little. What's important is to keep them distracted. Telly serves this purpose well, keeping most people engrossed while dumbing down the youth.

The newspapers do the rest by running the official slant. The Sunday rags inspect the week's garbage, select the smelliest, stir in a few extra "facts" and suddenly we're up in arms looking for a culprit.   

It works every time. Now all the elite need do is create a few problems that will cost money to solve, like a war or two (those old Romans were on to something here). But you can't do that openly without shaking the masses out of their complacency; otherwise the buggers might do something silly like voting you out of power.

I know, let's have a terror scare. And if we can't find a real terrorist (remembering that we invented the word and as Humpty Dumpty said: "A word means just what I say it means.") let's invent a terrorist or three. And if we can't do that let's fund a few loony groups who would otherwise just waste their time talking religious nonsense and if that fails fer crissake just send a few of the lads across the border and shoot  back at ourselves.

Sadly, it's all been done before, and the body bags will keep coming back as before, and the same people will financially benefit as before until we as responsible parents and tax payers brush up our analytical skills and stop falling for the same schtick.

Meantime, a salute to Christopher for Leakeing this valuable news piece. Now I can't wait to hear him give evidence at the Iraq inquiry currently ongoing in London.

What? He's not on the list of witnesses?

Why not? A man with such valuable contacts inside M15 must surely know how we got ourselves into that war?

Oh, wait, wasn't this the same Christopher Leake who leaked the story about "weapons of mass destruction"? Y'know, the one that started the whole shebang?

I give up, my head hurts.

[SandyB]

quote  Bob  " I  give  up my  head  hurts "        ...  Ok  Bob  you got  me  the  actual intelligence  was  them  spying on O'mund online  and  seeing my  bit   on  how  if I was  terminally ill   ( heck  no  theres  no other way I would   do a suicide bomb bit ever ) I would have a   bomb  implanted ,, request as a terminally  ill person  an  audience  with my  great hero  of the 20 offspring  the honourable JZ .. while sitting and  having   a  genteel  cup of tea  and discussing    my  demise and world matters  request a  hug  from my  hero  and  take up  both out  ,, can just see the showerhead  flying  through the roof .. Ha  ha