NY Post: WEIRD PLOT OF WOMB BOMBER

[GRClarkesq]

By BRIAN BLOMQUIST and ANDY GELLER

January 4, 2004 -- A she-bomber planned to blow up British Airways Flight 223 over Washington with plastic explosives hidden inside her body, a chilling new report says.

U.S. security services told Scotland Yard that the woman - almost certainly linked to al Qaeda - planned to hide 8 to 12 ounces of the material tucked inside her reproductive region, London's Mirror newspaper reported.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/4929.htm

[truthisfreedom]

1. mind if i DON'T read that article?

i haven't had breakfast.

[The Zanti Regent]

17. More lies from the SCREW YORK POST

I guess Screwpert paid this writer a $50 bonus for coming up with this!

[kalian]

2. Oh come on!!!

And people are expected to believe this crap?! :wtf:

Oh...and note the keyword: "IED"...this is military jargon coming
out of Iraq BTW for "improvised explosive device". Whatever happened
to "booby trap"...? :eyes: That's right...silly me...sounds too
much like Vietnam jargon...

[Dogmudgeon]

4. IED ... they had to

The term Ordnance du Jour was French.

--bkl

[Just Me]

13. Not just silly,...but offensive as well,...

,...they are taking the art of terrorist propaganda too far.

[frylock]

21. ied or iud?

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. I still say it's going to be mass transit buses

someday. Terrorists are very patient as demonstrated by 9/11 and the planning that went into it. Call me crazy, but bring in 10, 15, or 20 suicide bombers with work visas in major cities, have them live among us for a few months, then one day they all hop public buses and/or trains at approximately the same time either to or from the rush hour of work and kaboom.

Sick, I know. But a plausible scenario nonetheless.

[Beaker]

18. i've always envisioned a cyanide gas attack of some kind

in crowded malls, busses, trains, or even a plane.

[Fovea]

20. I figure

It is going to be Gasoline trucks as highway bombs.
Imagine what that would be like at rush hour...
I tend to avoid going near the freeway
and as a symbolic target, any highway would work.

Imagine what that would do to our economy...
But I don't see this as a terror war
as terror is a strategy to further sandbag
our economy.

A pure terror campaign would be like
France in the late fifties vs the Algerians.

[northzax]

46. frankly, that isn't ambitious enough for al quaeda

they like the big striek. Now if I had sleeper cells across th eUS, I would have set off some bombs in malls during the doliday shopping season. Maybe the odd pizza hut. One of the most horrific suicide bombings in Israel was the Sbarro, right? why bother with airplanes, which can be avoided? go after the mcdonalds in Omaha. If AQ was really tyhis powerhouse, they would have brought fear tothe heartland, not the relatively remote new york/dc axis.

[aquart]

50. Yet France still stands.

[aquart]

49. Nice, still doesn't come close to 9/11.

Al qaeda's big problem is their stunning overachievement on 9/11. How to top it? And if they do? How to top the topper? It can really hurt your brain.

If 15-20 suicide bombers can get into the US long enough to hop a bus, then I have some serious problems with the INS.

[Occulus]

53. Suicide bombers

can just as easily be a home-cooked meal.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. This one does take the cake, doesn't it?

The idea of an explosive device inserted into a woman's "birth canal" is ludicrous. What kind of triggering device would she use? Did she think she could just light a fuse?
:crazy:

[DemExpat]

41. The article states that she would remove it in the toilet

before detonating...

DemEx

[aquart]

52. Okay, now we're talking delusional.

[NJCher]

6. First the shoe bomber

Now the Tampax bomber!!



Cher

[peekaloo]

8. next on Fox News....the Vaginal Suiciders

:crazy:

[Beaker]

14. look out!- she's got a fuse hanging out of her....privates.

the security line at the airport is about to get a lot more fun.

[RUexperienced]

7. I can't wait to see the new security procedures in airports looking for

womb bombs.

"Mam, remove your shoes... and put your feet in the stirrups."

[IndianaGreen]

16. Sigh! We'll be on Orange Alert until Labor Day

then it is Red Alert until Election Day.

[Baclava]

19. ?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/%20content_objectid=13776147_method=full_siteid=50143<br%20/>_headline=-SHE-BOMBER-name_page.html

"Defence analyst Paul Beaver..."

Well, they've certainly got the right man on the job.

[bubblesby2002]

33. LOL

I did, I did I laughed right out loud.

[kath]

47. OMFG!!! I'm sitting here laughing my ass off!

Good one, RU

[Beaker]

9. if you thought taking off your shoes at the airport was bad...

just wait until they start equipping the security people with speculums.

[TeeYiYi]

12. Niiiiice. Actually, it's not that hard to imagine. . .

. . . women smuggle 'stuff' using that particular orifice every day. This woman was planning on dying anyway and I think the plan was to surgically implant the explosive inside her womb. I think it is a very plausible idea. Frightening to ponder.

TYY

[Beaker]

15. michelle pfeiffer used hers to smuggle emeralds in a movie.

after all, if you can fit a baby in there, why not?

[JPace]

37. "after all, if you can fit a baby in there, why not?"

during a womans pregnancy a hormone is
released that enables the vaginal canal
to stretch in preparation for birth.
When a woman is not pregnant she cannot
stretch to those proportions. If terrorists
want to use women this way they will have
to get a pregnant one. I wonder how many
pregnant women will want to destroy their
unborn child by blowing themselves up?

[aquart]

51. And detonate, HOW?

[amber dog democrat]

10. Highly unlikely

What kind of bomb are we talking about? C4 or Symtex?

How large are we talking about to structurally damage an aircraft?
How would it be fused?

I doubt very much such a thing would be successful even if the procedure was possible. I am not an engineer but I don't believe this scenario is feasible.

This is indicative of more of these false alarms that are used to justify a high level of fear.

Creative as it may be.

[Just Me]

11. Is GRClarkesq really "Tomahawk"?

Does NY Post often publish this kind of stuff?

[0007]

22. ....another Ann Coulter in paper form, 'eh?

I can't link to this news source. But if true, I don't think this would become common knowledge. Sounds like a wild idea that may have some validity.

[Bozola]

23. My God! It's a population explosion!

[RedSock]

24. what kind of newspaper

what kind of newspaper and reporter use the term

"she-bomber"?

(i know the answer.)

[Gin]

25. Be on the lookout for females walking as if they have explosives

in their vaginas.

Vagina Alert....code red!

[kittykitty]

26. Can't the Bomb-Sniffing Dogs ID Her?

I mean dogs are bad enough always sniffing your private parts anyway.
Couldn't they detect a little bomb?

[TeeYiYi]

29. Probably not . . .

. . . if they don't know what they're sniffing for. And especially if it's sewed inside her clenis. :7

TYY

[snippy]

35. Ken Starr should be able find it.

[truthisfreedom]

27. i think we're headed for mandatory x-rays. or ultrasound of some kind.

perhaps some new non-invasive, non-ionizing technology. this article signals something.

[Zhade]

28. This is from a Murdoch fish-wrapper.

Not even worth taking the time to dismiss.

NY Post? *snort*

[MacCovern]

30. Watch out for pregnant women with almanacs!!!!

Wonder what's next.

[Geeky_boy]

31. What's next?

The Vagina Monologues Part II

[Minstrel Boy]

32. "Womb Bomber"? Now who does that remind me of? Oh yeah...

George, Jeb, Neil and Marvin - bombs away!

[snippy]

36. A good reminder to spay your bitch.

[daleo]

34. And if this ever did happen

We would be told "it was just a mechanical failure, not terrorism".

So, the point is to maintain terror and demonize the other ("they would put what in their where"), while never admitting that Big Brother can't protect you.

And yes, Murdoch and Hollinger rags can't be trusted to report the daily temperature.

Regarding the demonization/dehumanization - note the use of the term "she-bomber". How would people react if the female American helicopter pilot that was recently killed in Iraq was called a "she-pilot".

[truthisfreedom]

38. she-bomber, she-pilot, she-devil. condi is a she-advisor, and laura is a

she-idiot.

edit: come to think of it, since the twins are legal now, i suppose they're fair game as well... she-drunks.

oh, and jeb's daughter is a she-junkie.

[SkipNewarkDE]

39. Daryl Kagan squirmed her way through....

reading this story this morning on CNN. It was as funny as the story itself.

[Venomous_Rhetoric]

40. the shoe

Bomber only had a small amount of plastic high explosive in his shoe. it was more than enough to bring down a jet,
Why wouldn't a good sized dildo charge, electric detonator (just pull the string hahaha) not work? it's more than enough to do the job.

[DemExpat]

42. Very feasible, IMO.....

deadly.

DemEx

[opihimoimoi]

43. HEY, Those Male Anal Bombers want Equal time

They will demand to be groped too and fondled as well.

[DemExpat]

45. lol Opi......

DemEx

[kath]

48. "a good sized dildo charge"

ya just gotta love it!!

What a thread this is!

(still laughing my ass off)

[priller]

44. On that show Nip/Tuck

the drug smuggler was bringing in heroin in breast implants. So I guess this is not so original an idea.