Al Qaeda's Breast Implant Bomb Plot

I appeared on Channel 7, WHDH NBC Boston, tonight during the 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts to discuss reports that Al Qaeda is planning to equip female jihadists with breast implants that have been filled with explosives. Believe it or not.

This kind of tactic would be very effective, if all the pieces were in place. However, it would be extraordinarily difficult to make it happen. You need a competent surgeon with a specialty in cosmetic surgery, you need a fundamentalist woman jihadist (rare enough) who is willing to undergo the procedure in violation of Islamic modesty taboos, and that individual also needs to be able to extract the explosives from the implant and make them into a bomb in an airplane restroom. Most Al Qaeda operatives can't even manage to set their shoes or underwear on fire, let along perform surgery on themselves, then build a bomb, then detonate it.

Video of the report is here, but for a more rounded discussion, check out the new INTELWIRE podcast:

Podcast: Al Qaeda's Breast Implant Bomb Plot

I will post video when it becomes available.

Labels: Weblog

Views expressed on INTELWIRE are those of the author alone.

Posted by J.M. Berger | Permalink