Terrorists "Surgically Implanting Bombs"

Britain and the US face a new al-Qaeda terror threat from so-called suicide body bombers with explosives surgically inserted inside them.

An operation by the UK intelligence service MI5 uncovered evidence that al-Qaeda was planning a new stage in its terror campaign by surgically inserting explosives inside terrorists, British newspaper The Mail on Sunday reported.

The explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, commonly known as PETN, would be placed in a plastic sachet inside the bomber’s body before the wound was stitched up like a normal operation incision and allowed to heal, experts said.

It would then be detonated with an injection of triacetone triperoxide, administered with syringes that could be smuggled onto planes disguised as a diabetic’s insulin kit.

The move could be an effective way to get incendiary devices past new body scanners at airports, introduced across the globe after Nigerian-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab smuggled PETN onto a US-bound flight in December, hidden under his clothes.