Could be X-Ray machines for planes next

Bottle_of_Smoke

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8276016.stm

Fears over 'internal' terror bomb

Security and intelligence experts are deeply worried by a new development in suicide bombing, the BBC has learned.
It has emerged that an al-Qaeda bomber who died last month while trying to blow up a Saudi prince in Jeddah had hidden the explosives inside his body.
Only the attacker died, but it is feared that the new development could be copied by others.
Experts say it could have implications for airport security, rendering traditional metal detectors "useless".
Last month's bombing left people wondering how one of the most wanted al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia could get so close to the prince in charge of counter-terrorism that he was able to blow himself up in the same room.
Western forensic investigators think they have the answer, and it is worrying them profoundly.
Peter Neuman of Kings College London says the case will be studied intensively, and that there are "tremendous implications for airport security with the potential of making it even more complicated to get on to your plane".
"If it really is true that the metal detectors couldn't detect this person's hidden explosive device, that would mean that the metal detectors as they currently exist in airports are pretty much useless," he said.
The bomber was a Saudi al-Qaeda fugitive who said he wanted to give himself up to the prince in person.
The prince took him at his word and gave him safe passage to his palace.
But there, once he got next to his target, the bomb inside him was detonated.
Miraculously the prince survived with minor injuries, but footage emerging this week shows a sizeable crater in the concrete floor and the bomber's body blown in half.
It is believed the force of the blast went downwards which is why only the bomber died.

Bit of a nightmare this. Possibly a new idea/technology they were saving this bomb for a big target (Saudi Prince in charge of counter terrorism)

Would love to know the details of how it got around a metal detector, hoping he was perhaps stripsearched and therefore they never bothered with the scan. Otherwise I really don't want to think about the implications for air travel.

murphaph

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Bit of a nightmare this. Possibly a new idea/technology they were saving this bomb for a big target (Saudi Prince in charge of counter terrorism)

Would love to know the details of how it got around a metal detector, hoping he was perhaps stripsearched and therefore they never bothered with the scan. Otherwise I really don't want to think about the implications for air travel.

Metal detectors can detect internal pieces of metal, just not sure how big they have to be (some people with metal limb replacements/plates get stopped)

Joey the lips

I have plates. I am always stopped and s/he uses the want thing. I imagine I will be x rayed if this continues.

Bottle_of_Smoke

murphaph wrote: »

Metal detectors can detect internal pieces of metal, just not sure how big they have to be (some people with metal limb replacements/plates get stopped)

that's what i'm thinking, so i don't know how this guy got past the scanner. perhaps a new type of detonator, which could be frightening

Overheal

And you know TSA will do it better than the rest - cavity searches if you have too much iron in your diet

bonkey

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

that's what i'm thinking, so i don't know how this guy got past the scanner. perhaps a new type of detonator, which could be frightening

If there's a new type of detonator, then it doesn't need to be inside the body.

I dunno...the story smacks of journalist sensationalism to me, mixed with a dose of the type of hyperbole we've seen with any "airport security threat" issue in the last 8 years.

Dirk Gently

murphaph wrote: »

Metal detectors can detect internal pieces of metal, just not sure how big they have to be (some people with metal limb replacements/plates get stopped)

I have a couple of plates in my arm but they don't set off the metal detectors.

peasant

footage emerging this week shows a sizeable crater in the concrete floor and the bomber's body blown in half.
It is believed the force of the blast went downwards which is why only the bomber died.

This really should be in AH ...they'd have a field day

peasant

peasant wrote: »

This really should be in AH ...they'd have a field day

we already did :pac: