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A al-Qaeda-affiliated Saudi suicide bomber, carrying explosives in his anal cavity, managed to get close to the Saudi deputy interior minister and detonate himself (the minister was unharmed); analysts fear this may be a new method of carrying explosives on a plane
An affiliate of al Qaeda has taken a page from the drug mule's playbook, hiding an improvised explosive device (IED) in the anal cavity of a suicide bomber who detonated himself in late August in Saudi Arabia, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reports.
The terrorist, a wanted militant from al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP), pretended to renounce terrorism and repent in order to get close to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister who leads the kingdom's counter-terrorism campaign.
In the attack on August 28, the bomber obliterated himself but the prince survived shaken but unharmed.
AQAP claimed credit for the attack in an Internet statement but was coy about the method, declaring: "No one will be able to know the type of this device or the way it was detonated."
The AAP credits the U.S. private intelligence services firm, STRATFOR, with the intimate details of the suicide bombing. According to the firm's intelligence report, the bombing signals a paradigm shift in suicide bombing tactics.
Originally posted by KSPigpen
AQAP claimed credit for the attack in an Internet statement but was coy about the method, declaring: "No one will be able to know the type of this device or the way it was detonated."
The AAP credits the U.S. private intelligence services firm, STRATFOR, with the intimate details of the suicide bombing. According to the firm's intelligence report, the bombing signals a paradigm shift in suicide bombing tactics.
1) Isnt jamming things up their rear in violation of some Muslim code or something? With all the stonings of homosexuals and rape victims and all jamming something up there, even for Allah, has to be a pretty gray area for them.
Originally posted by Kaytagg
The amount of explosives you can fit in your bum can't be enough to cause serious damage -- especially when you consider that a portion of the blast will be absorbed by the mass of the body it's hidden in.
I'm guessing they were able to determine the explosives were hidden in his rear because the body was still partially intact -- except for certain areas indicative of a butt-bomb.