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For The Most Part Undetectable, A New Weapon For The Bad Guys
Terrorists blowing themselves up for the purpose of killing and maiming innocent women and children is nothing new. They will indiscriminately take life, supposedly in the name of creating a better world.
Now comes the assassination attempt last month against a Saudi Prince by a man who was there under the guise of turning himself in. He went through a security check unlike any that you and I go through at the airport. It was thorough and took quite some time before he was allowed close to the Prince.
Once there, he blew himself up, only slightly injuring his intended target. It seems as if explosives within a body cavity are extremely hard to detect, and certainly not by the cursory inspection done at an airport. While these explosives cannot be devastatingly large, they can still be strong enough to inflict damage both physically and mentally.
So in the Global War on Terror, in a society where the simple inspections at airport security are considered to be over the top by some and an intrusion on our privacy, what will the solution to this new terrorist weaponry be? Will private rooms at the airport for cavity searches fly? They may have to.
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dave_in_atl (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 12:33PM EST (link)A determined individual can commit mass murder no matter how many precautions we take as a society.
I mean we cant even keep drugs out of maximum security prisons… what makes anyone think we can keep suicide bombers out of public places. Best we can hope for is to catch the stupid ones…. thankfully most people are idiots.
Not mass murder - as the story says
Michael M. Keohane (Diary) Friday, October 2nd at 7:05PM EST (link)the amount of explosives that can be packed into a body cavity is small. This tactic may be used as a one-on-one terror weapon or for assassination but not for mass killings. Most of the explosive force will be expended in breaching the terrorist’s flesh or deflected out the available body opening. Beware of someone trying to stick their butt in your face.
Do not classify the words or deeds of your opponents as being hatefull, malicious or criminal in nature if they can also be easily characterized as simple ignorance or gross stupidity. Anon.
Plastic Explosive
halthouse1 (Diary) Saturday, October 3rd at 5:12PM EST (link)Imagine where this could be used to create terror as well as collateral damage.
“Plastic explosive (or plastique) is a specialised form of explosive material. It is soft and hand moldable solid material. Plastic explosives are properly known as Putty explosives within the field of explosives engineering.[1]
Common plastic explosives include Semtex and C-4. Plastic explosives are especially suited for explosive demolition as they can be easily formed into the best shapes for cutting structural members, and have a high enough velocity of detonation and density for metal cutting work”
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