DHS: Bombers may use 'pregnancy prosthetics'

[sabra]

Source: NBC

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reminding law-enforcement officials of the increased use of female suicide bombers worldwide, and warning that women terrorists might hide explosives in devices “that mimic the look of a pregnant woman.”

The unclassified DHS threat assessment, released Monday and obtained by NBC News, shows photographs of “pregnancy prosthetics,” hollowed-out devices that could hold explosive devices. The report says “female suicide bombers have used devices that make them appear pregnant to hide explosive devices.”

The DHS report states that terrorists are using female bombers more frequently, in part because these attacks generate “more widespread media exposure.” It adds: “Continued use of female suicide bombers-the most recent example being a 3 February 2008 attack at the main railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka-indicates that terrorists judge this tactic as effective in increasing defenses and thwarting security measures.”

The report, marked “For Official Use Only,” is one of dozens of threat assessments issued jointly throughout the year by DHS and the FBI. The authors are quick to mention that there’s no immediate threat to the U.S.

“DHS and the FBI have no specific, credible intelligence indicating that terrorist organizations intend to utilize female suicide bombers against targets in the Homeland,” they write.



Read more: http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/11/656670.aspx

[aquart]

1. Think they have an office pool...

How many miscarriages they can cause by strip searching pregnant women?

On edit: Or are they deliberately trying to provoke an actual incident by humiliating pregnant Muslim women?

In the hopes of finally justifying their existence before a new administration comes in?

[Newsjock]

2. Now 'the Homeland' is capitalized!?

“DHS and the FBI have no specific, credible intelligence indicating that terrorist organizations intend to utilize female suicide bombers against targets in the Homeland,” they write.

Forget the utter absurdity of faux-pregnant suicide bombers in Ottumwa, Iowa ... this new phrasing from Our Government is downright creepy. Our new president, whoever he or she may be, must put an immediate end to this "homeland" crap.

[ixion]

14. yeah, the whole 'homeland' thing is creepy, just like the use of 'czar'

as in Drug Czar, etc.

[KaryninMiami]

3. They're Back! It's that wonderful time again--"Terror Time"

from the folks that brought us duct tape, color coded danger days and those fabulous fear scare statistics (of un substantiated possible alerts- now we have exploding pregnant women terrorists (who pose no immediate threat to the US).

Get ready for a year of non-stop terror teases -- especially now that Senator War hero-War Monger is their candidate.

November seems further away then ever. Oy Vey.

[Journeyman]

6. Damn, I'm nostalgic for the days of "terrorist scuba divers" . . .

maybe when the writers' strike is over DHS can get back to some truly creative terror. "Pregger prosthetics"? Sounds like something from a creative writing class you'd find on a matchbook cover.

[ckramer]

4. Strip search every woman at the airport?

Damn terrorist!

[LeftyMom]

7. Cavities too. Who knows what they're hiding in those scary woman parts. nt

[EFerrari]

10. Or in their heads! Thought criminal are sneaky!

[LeftyMom]

5. Election year. Time to scare the piss out of the ninnies and sheeple again.

Somebody'd better start to thaw out Osama for the Weekend at Bernies routine again.

[pinniped]

8. They may have to conduct sonograms at the airports.

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[Ian David]

9. Beware The Titty Bomber!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Aha!

I see you have found the new DHS Mobile Strategic Oil Reserve! Very clever of you!

[Thor_MN]

23. I'd have to say it's from the helium reserve...

Either that or * issued a signing statement on the law of gravity...

[LiberalFighter]

16. Ewwww Gross

So many answers I would to know and so many I wouldn't want to know.

[truthisfreedom]

12. "...against targets in the Homeland,” they write. Whatever happened to the United States of America?

Is bushco preparing us for a name change?

Next we'll be warned about explosive prosthetic peni.

[Kolesar]

13. Everybody run

The homecoming queen has a bomb.

[atreides1]

15. So Basically

The federal government has found a way to let the perverts feel a woman up and it's all in the name of protecting the "Homeland"!!!!

DHS=Gestapo
FBI=SD

[boricua79]

17. so how are we going to fight this?

start strip searching pregnant women in Iraq and elsewhere?

It's time to admit we have no civil way to deal with this problem. We don't search and get bombed, or we search the women and insult their culture/religion and raise the amount of suicide bomber recruits.

It's time we left.

[doodadem]

18. Airport observation

I've seen plenty of pot-bellied guys at the airport that look pregnant...........gonna start searching them too? How about all fat people? Are they going to make people with prosthetic limbs take them off so they can look inside?

Where's the line?

[endarkenment]

20. Those guys could hide a nuke in the fold. nt.

[pitohui]

22. they all go thru an x-ray

i don't see what the hysteria is, the fat man goes the same x-ray that i, a skinny woman, go thru, if he's strapped with a bomb, they'll find it

i think it's irresponsible for women in the later stages of pregnancy to be flying around exposing themselves to airport x-rays and the increased exposure to radiation that you get at 35,000 miles in the thinner part of the atmosphere but i guess if they don't care about their baby's x-ray exposure, why should i? but in any case, while i'm sure that many a bomber has strapped the bomb to his or her belly, it will show up on the x-ray that we ALL go thru so what's the big deal?

the durn thing beeps if you forget to take your belt off, like it isn't going to pick up an entire bomb in a fake belly?

[endarkenment]

19. DHS: The Terrorists Will Not Defetus!

Sorry. It had to be said. Be very afraid.

I took my aged mom in her wheelchair on a flight across the country and she got the DHS scrutiny I thought was reserved for Indian gentlemen wearing turbans. Never has a colostomy bag received such adoration.

[Beausoleil]

21. DHS

"Giving terrorists ideas since 2002!"

[bobthedrummer]

24. Did the DHS think that the two week old baby that died in their secure room

in Hawaii was something other than a two week old baby being taken for medical care? CHERTOF'S PERSONALLY CHOSEN EINSATZGRUPPEN.


:cry: :nuke:

[MrSlayer]

25. I can see that happening.

It would be an effective method.

[bklyncowgirl]

26. They could also dress up in fat man suits

If the obese dude down the aisle's butt fits in a coach seat be afraid, be very afraid.