Not that long ago, a question like this would never be asked by a serious reporter at a series news agency. But in this postmodern age, the ridiculous is deadly and the deadly becomes ridiculous.
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Without going into excessive detail, the main ingredients of the bomb are a certain amount of an explosive substance derived from broken down matches (don’t buy all your matches at once! [al Qaeda’s magazine] urges) as well as a variety of other household ingredients like nail polish.
The end result is a bomb, about the size of a water bottle, filled with processed match powder and other chemicals. The magazine tells the reader to cover the bomb with about a half a centimeter of silicon to ensure that it doesn’t trigger detection at airport screening. But even with a healthy coat of silicon, it’s the sort of object that would show up under routine inspection or x-ray. So what’s a would-be terrorist to do to get their new kitchen bomb aboard a plane?
First, don’t stick it in your underwear. That’s something that the Transportation Security Administration is on the lookout for, thanks to that 2009 incident when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “Underwear Bomber,” attempted to blow up an Amsterdam to Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas Day. John Pistole, head of TSA, has said that Abdulmutallab was “very close” to executing the attack and would have gotten away with it if not for the fact that he was carrying around the device for weeks and hadn’t changed his underpants.
Carrying it for weeks — in his bottom.
I try not to judge, but why exactly would an undersexed man with filthy underwear keep a highly explosive device up his bum for several weeks, unless he found some pleasure in the act?
Honestly, I’m just asking questions here. I mean no insult, because that would be wrong.
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