It was not so long ago that the very idea of suicidal terrorism on a plane was unthinkable; the concept of a person willing to take their own life and those of others at 30,000 feet was something the industry preferred not to consider.

We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Three years later, in 2012, the Taliban attempted to assassinate Asadullah Khalid, then the head of the domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan. However, Jan Steven van Wingerden of OD Security suggests that, “Customs and security could share the X-ray body scanner for selective screening.

According to Europol’s assessment of the attack, the bomb is thought to have been detonated via radiofrequency after a phone call was made to an al Qaeda operative in Yemen during the meeting between al-Asiri and Nayef. The mass media love a flight attendant story, especially if there is a sexual twist to it. So why have we not seen more recent incidents involving internally concealed devices? If we are to continue the linear sequence of increasingly intimately concealed devices then body cavity bombs do appear to be the next logical step (see Robert J. Bunker and Christopher Flaherty’s Body Cavity Bombers for a fascinating and very thorough account of the evolution of the body bomb). The plan failed, however, because the dogs died from the procedure prior to boarding and the devices were discovered. Christopher Flaherty, co-author of Body Cavity Bombers suggests it is simply “too difficult to pull off”. “…the positioning of the IED in the rectum meant that the blast followed the path of least resistance – downward rather than outward, leaving the bomber’s torso above the waist intact…”Also, since the main reason for concealing a device inside the body is to avoid detection, a minimal amount of metal components may be used. The following are some examples of body packing methods commonly used to smuggle objects, and items that have been found inside various body cavities: While the average rectum is capable of holding around half a litre before the impulse to ‘evacuate’ becomes overpowering, individuals, particularly ‘career mules’ have been known to ‘train’ their sphincters and stretch out their rectums in order to hold up to three times that amount. This undoubtedly would have made it possible for al-Asiri to pass unnoticed through airport security metal detectors on his way to Jeddah (at which point, it is thought, the device would have already been in situ). Drug mules, prisoners and visitors to prisons have been successfully smuggling contraband within body cavities for decades, and if an individual is capable of smuggling drugs across borders then they are capable of smuggling the components of a bomb onto a plane inside their vagina or rectum, and then extracting, assembling and detonating them once on board. Behavioural analysis has been shown to be effective in identifying individuals who could pose a threat.

It does appear that the closer the bomb is to the body, the harder it is to get it right: Richard Reid’s shoe bomb failed to detonate, and the underpants bomb of 2009 malfunctioned leaving Abdulmuttallab rather singed and disfigured but basically still intact. There is enough evidence, therefore, to believe that the development of internally concealed bombs was very much on terrorists’ minds, particularly between 2006 and 2012. During a cavity search of her vagina, they found a Kimber.380-calibre handgun, fully loaded and with a bullet chambered. It has been suggested that men are capable of stowing greater quantities than women, however the capacities of various cavities can vary widely from individual to individual. Both of these were examples of bombs that had almost certainly been inserted into the rectum, a fairly simple method of concealing items that is well established by prisoners and the drug smuggling trade.


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