US officials claim terrorists might attack aircraft with bombs surgically implanted in their bodies

[Cali_Democrat]

Please note that this is being reported by Brian Ross of ABC News. He's known for his fear mongering masquerading as investigative journalism.

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , RICHARD ESPOSITO and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
April 30, 2012

With the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death looming, American and European authorities told ABC News today that they fear al Qaeda may soon try to explode U.S.-bound aircraft with explosives hidden inside the bodies of terrorists.

As a result, security at several airports in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East has been substantially stepped up, with a focus on U.S. carriers.

Additional federal air marshals have also been shifted overseas in advance of the anniversary. A year ago Tuesday night, President Obama announced on live television that bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. raid on a compound in Pakistan.

Medical experts say there is plenty of room in the stomach area of the body for surgically implanted explosives. "The surgeon would open the abdominal cavity and literally implant the explosive device in amongst the internal organs," explained Dr. Mark Melrose, a New York emergency medicine specialist.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/officials-fear-terrorists-body-bombs-us-bound-planes/story?id=16245827

This seems very far fetched to me.

[rfranklin]

1. Colonoscopies for everyone!

The TSA can take their heads out their asses and put them in yours!

[Purveyor]

3. lol eom

[CrispyQ]

9. From a while back:

[Purveyor]

2. I'm surprised that this hasn't already happened. Good lord they have found people with

herion and cocaine implanted 'into them' so why not an explosive.

[Nye Bevan]

4. Yep. Replace 100 pounds of blubber with 100 pounds of Semtex.

With detonation controlled by pressing on the belly button in a predetermined sequence.

[Gman]

5. And monkeys might fly out of my butt

[DJ13]

6. Explosive monkeys?

[Journeyman]

7. THIS is why we should all oppose stem cell research! . . .

Next thing you know, terrorists could be growing exploding colons and developing super-noxious flatulence.

In the final analysis, these "authorities" jobs are dependent on keeping the level of fear ratcheted up enough to justify present manpower levels. Keep that in mind whenever you read bullshit such as this.

[Auntie Bush]

8. Can you just imagine if the bomb didn't go off?

Who would dare remove a bomb. I'm afraid that sucker (spelled with an F) would have a mighty fine stomach ache for the rest of his short life.
Long live the failed bomber!

[Cali_Democrat]

12. That would be weird

Hey doc, I got a bomb in my body that failed to go off. Could you take it out for me?

[Arkansas Granny]

10. So, how do they plan to prevent this? Will TSA have to strip search passengers and

demand medical documentation for any scars on the torso? This just gets wilder every day.

[Noodleboy13]

11. Didn't the Joker do this

in "The Dark Knight" ?

Be on the lookout for green haired psychos in clown makeup

peace,
Noodleboy

[immoderate]

13. If he looks like this...

He could well EXPLODE!





--imm

[AnOhioan]

14. (yawn) More nonsense

[cynatnite]

15. Not saying it will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did...

I spent some time in the medical field and I can tell you without a doubt that there are a lot of people who manage to get crazy and large objects inside themselves. They will either swallow it or insert it inside of themselves. Surgeons have pulled out large amounts of dope from a person.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. AND THANK GOD THE GOVERNMENT CAN GO INSIDE PEOPLES BODIES TO LOOK FOR TEH DRUGGGGS!!!!

GOOD GOD WHAT WOULD WE DO IF TEH GOVERNMENT DIDN'T HAVE THE POWER TO TURN YOUR INSIDES INSIDE OUT TO MAKE SURE YE DONT HAVE TEH DRUGGGGGGGGS INSIDE YOUR* BODY!


*it's not really your body, it belongs to the government.. That's why you can't put TEH DRUGGGGGS inside it, or use it in any other unauthorized fashion.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. heh.

[cynatnite]

22. Well, I suppose we could wait until the patient is dead from a ruptured balloon filled with cocaine.

It's very dangerous and shouldn't be shrugged off as government invasion of privacy.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. and during the 1920s, bathtub gin made an awful lot of people go blind, or die.

Hmm, I wonder what the best way to deal with that was.

[jp11]

16. Meanwhile there are hundreds of other ways to terrorize US citizens by the government that

aren't being exploited for cash like flying in america. Any one of which would be so much simpler to do since we aren't all freaking out over how they are going to get around this or that security measure.

Oh terrorists if only you weren't so simple minded to think the ONLY way you could possibly 'hit us' again would be the, really, one thing you did right 10+ years ago that we've been sort of working on for our american companies to cash in while scaring citizens so they bend over to lose their privacy, dignity and freedom.

[hootinholler]

17. He claimed it has been done once already in Yemen

An unsuccessful attack on someone high up, I forget whom.

[Fearless]

18. Assuming that the metal detector doesn't find it...

And infection doesn't kill them. And their bodies don't try to kill it... And they find someone willing...

It's this kind of BS that makes everyone fear going out their front door. The fact is that you could die crossing the street tomorrow. In short, don't sweat the small stuff.

[jimmydetectors]

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[Warren DeMontague]

19. I can't be the first person in the thread to make a "booby trap" joke.

Look at that, I guess I am.

[agentS]

24. It's always aircraft with the guys.

Al Qaeda never changes their 'schtick'. It's getting old and sad. If only bin laden could see them now....

[lonestarnot]

25. They must have implanted one in my dog. She got biohazrd. P U