NEW YORK (PIX11)—
As if ripped from the Hollywood action movie "Batman: The Dark Knight", the federal government is preparing for a bizarre potential terror tactic -- bombs surgically implanted into the human body.Security analyst Robert Strang, CEO of The Investigative Management Group, told PIX 11 News, "Clearly it's a concern...at the end of the day every time we get a new technique, a new system in place, they're gonna try to find a way to get around it."
There are renewed fears over Al Qaeda making explosives that would be implanted in a terrorist's abdomen, buttocks, or breasts, designed to evade the latest security scanners.
The suspected organization behind the plan is an Al Qaeda splinter group, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Its mastermind, according to Saudi intelligence, is Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, and he's tried extreme measures to get explosives on planes before.
The "Underwear Bomber," Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was a traveler busted with a bomb in his boxers who suffered severe burns but failed to blow up a Detroit-bound jet. Al-Asiri organized that plot and a plan to put copier cartridges filled with explosive powder on planes. Both of those attempts to carry out terrorist acts on planes were foiled, and the hope of the intelligence community is that the warning going out now about this latest air travel terrorist threat will stop it before it can happen.
Strang told PIX 11 News, "This is something that's out there, please beware of it, if there is a specific threat we'll hear about it right away, so as far as getting on a flight, there's probably no safer way to travel right now than getting on an airplane."
According to published reports citing a secret government document, the 'body bomb' would be virtually undetectable.
To detonate the explosive, the terrorist could inject himself or herself with a syringe setting off a deadly chemical reaction resulting in a plane's 'explosive decompression' and leading to mass casualties.
