Terrorist Devise a New Method of Blowing Up Passenger Planes

Basically the thing was about Osama trying to get even with the House of Saud and there is no evidence that this kind of ´internal bomb´ would be employed in attacks on Western interests.

Actually what really happens in Saudi is not very transparent to say the least and there have been already rumors for some years now that several assassination attempts against Saudi officials have occurred with explosives hidden in body cavities. This time they probably could not hold the mess under wraps...

bladerunner said:

Dont know anything about what makes things go bang so whats the advantage of a binary explosive? How would you get the two to mix if its shoved up your arse?

I think Ill have to pic a national airline that no ones got a grudge against the country.
It could certainly disrupt the tourist passengers anyway.If You are a big shot businessman one can charter ones own plane etc.

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i remember reading somewhere that binary explosives are harder to detect by airport security.

if i were to write an action/comedy script, this is how it would go: ahmed, the hapless terrorist, and abdullah, the equally hapless terrorist, would each carry a sack of one of the explosive components onto an airplane; then the two of them would go into the same bathroom, or should i say lavatory, on the plane and try to pull the stuff out of each other's ass and mix them. And passengers waiting outside would, of course, hear heavy panting and moaning from two men and go "WTF!"

kitsch? yes. bad taste? yes. but hey, hollywood is right next door, what do you expect?

Violet Oboe said:

Basically the thing was about Osama trying to get even with the House of Saud and there is no evidence that this kind of ´internal bomb´ would be employed in attacks on Western interests.

Actually what really happens in Saudi is not very transparent to say the least and there have been already rumors for some years now that several assassination attempts against Saudi officials have occurred with explosives hidden in body cavities. This time they probably could not hold the mess under wraps...

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I hope you are right in your assesment, and its just sensationalising on the part of the news source. But you can never say they wont try the technique in the light of recent failures,in other words(unfortunately, if ignored, things like that have a habit of coming back and biting us on the buttocks)

They also played this video clip, unfortunately I cant determine whether it was the bomber saying his goodbyes etc as is the norm, or another terrorist making the threats of spreading the technique into other areas as the english translation/voiceover was suggesting as i cant recall seeing a time date thingy on the bottom of the clip.