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Authorities Warning Women Not to Wear Gel Bras As Worries of Possible Female Bombers Increase
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U.S. authorities are advising women not to wear gel bras on airplanes as information developed in the foiled London plot points to an expanding role for women in smuggling explosives on to an aircraft.
Authorities at Scotland Yard are questioning a husband and wife, suspects in the London terror plot, about allegations that they were planning to use their baby's bottle to hide a liquid bomb.
Police in the U.K. have recovered baby bottles containing peroxide, including some with false bottoms, from a recycling center close to the homes of some of the arrested suspects.
The use of female suicide bombers has been successful in previous airplane attacks.
When two airplanes went down within minutes of each other in Russia in 2004, officials immediately suspected a terrorist connection. It was later learned that the two suicide bombers were Chechen women. They had both been detained in the airport before boarding their flights but managed to convince airline officials using a little cash and charm to let them on board. Ninety people were killed.
"Black Widows," as they are called by the Russian media, are Chechen women who kill themselves to avenge the deaths of their husbands or other male family members.
There are numerous other examples of the use of female operatives in terrorist operations. Two women with explosive belts were among the hostage takers during the siege of a middle school in Beslan, Russia. Over 300 people were killed; half of them were children.
A woman had planned to blow herself up with her husband in an attack at a wedding in a hotel in Amman, Jordan last year that killed over 50 people. His explosive belt worked, while hers did not.
Maddy Sauer contributed to this report.
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In 6 months, we will all be boarding planes in the nude w/ no carry-on bags.
Posted by: JAL | Aug 16, 2006 1:50:58 PM
What the heck are gel bras and exactly what kind of threat do they pose? Can you make a bomb out of them? This just sounds wacky to me. We've lost our minds.
Posted by: Lucinda | Aug 16, 2006 1:51:32 PM
It's nice to know people have the freedom to type without education. BLu, even if what you posted was remotely accurate, Muslims are people who practice a particular religion and not an ethnicity. People from the United States, Middle East, Indonesia, Europe, etc. are Muslim. How do you plan to pick them out again?????
Posted by: HC | Aug 16, 2006 1:53:40 PM
All the complaints about security measures, and yet, if America sends troops to Afghanistan or Iraq to fight these terrorists, America is always considered the "bad guy".
Posted by: JFM | Aug 16, 2006 1:54:09 PM
I know... it's amusing and funny. Gel bras, of all things. But one little, laughable, step at a time we embrace the "comfort" of a nice, secure, police state.
Our phones, purchases, browser searches, and e-mails are monitored AND now you can't wear gel bras. It's just a funny little step...
Posted by: Tommy | Aug 16, 2006 1:56:32 PM
Wake up America. The govt knew since 1994 that binary liquid bombs were a possibility and there were no liquid restrictions for 12 years. Why? Because you are being played and conditioned. Wake up. Next your speech will be limited. Then you will be searched for liquids at police state check lanes. Speak out now.
Posted by: blue | Aug 16, 2006 1:57:03 PM
Wow, racisim has run a muck.
Posted by: Dan | Aug 16, 2006 1:59:42 PM
Sign in Airport in the near future: "Please remover your belt, shoes, jewlery, eye glasses....ah, hell....just take off EVRYTHING and go through security butt naked!"
Posted by: Yvonne Haghighatian | Aug 16, 2006 2:04:32 PM
Sooner or later, a terrorist will pack his rectum with C4 then go to the lavatory and try and blow up the plane. It will then come down to everyone having a rectal exam before boarding a plane. This is getting way ridiculous! With all the new security measures it will definitely damage the already economically fragile airline industry.
Posted by: SLF | Aug 16, 2006 2:06:46 PM
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN SOMEONE FIGURES OUT HOW TO MAKE A BOMB OUT OF URIN, GUM AND PAPER? I PERSONALLY THIN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY IS DOOMED EXCEPT FOR PRIVATE AIR CHARTER OPERATIONS.
Posted by: DAVID | Aug 16, 2006 2:12:08 PM
This is getting way out of hand. Panicking and creating mass hysteria is not the way to prevent terrorism. Everyone needs to CALM DOWN. Banning things on flights isn't going to deter an extremist--there will always be a way. You think that with the technology today, a baby or water bottle, mascara or gel bra is the only threat? What about eyeglasses? Pacemakers? Jewelry? Where does the paranoia stop? *slaps face and grabs shoulders* Get a hold of yourselves!
"YOU MUST CHILL!"--John Cusak as Lloyd Dobbler, Say Anything (1988)
Posted by: Ann | Aug 16, 2006 2:13:08 PM
"All terrorists are Mulsims." Let's see here. Timothy McVeigh- not. Certain elements of the Basque Separatist Movement - not.
The last 35 to 40 years has seen a lot of terrorism around thw world...ever hear of those Bader Mienhof characters?
Maybe to most Americans, terrorism doesn't matter at all if it's directed against someone else. Perhaps that is why the majority of Americans are neither psychology nor phyically prepared.
Posted by: Gus | Aug 16, 2006 2:13:54 PM
In reference to the Timothy McViegh and the other things that were referred to, yes, there are crazy people that want to murder for various reasons. You will have that anywhere. But how often do things like that happen? Terrorism is an on going thing every day of our lives and it will be until the end of time.
Posted by: Kat | Aug 16, 2006 2:15:38 PM
What about gel breast impants? A suicide female bomber could have her breasts enalrged with gel implants that contain an explosive.
She find some way of setting herself off. And depending upon the size of the impalnts, the explosion could be quite powerful. But how does one control for bombs-in-boobs? Hoow do security people tell if the woman's breasts are real or have gel filled implants?
Posted by: Hunter | Aug 16, 2006 2:16:47 PM
First of all, not all terrorists are muslim. Second, Islam is a religion, not a race. Anyone of any race can choose to follow Islam and to commit Islamic Jihad. Let's not make the situation worse by pointing fingers at the color of someone's skin.
Posted by: KS | Aug 16, 2006 2:19:16 PM
How about we just vote the morons who got us into this mess out of office!
Posted by: RS | Aug 16, 2006 2:20:54 PM
I just got back from traveling in the US with my daughter - she's 4 years old and the size of a 6 year old. They threw out her juice and dumped her sippy cups of mlk. Can you believe this?? Then the TSA got a nice glimpse with the rest of the line of the feminine products I was carrying. THEN, a love note in my luggage from Memphis to Mobile. Then on the way back, my diaper bag was searched, publicly. I'd like to see the look on the TSA people's kids faces when they're standing in line and the TSA throws THEIR milk and juice out and the kid cries. It's heartbreaking. NO CHILD deserves to be treated like that. This is way out of hand. Because my 4 year old COULD BE MacGyver, right??
Posted by: Disturbed | Aug 16, 2006 2:24:46 PM
Strip naked and prepare for cavity search!!!
Posted by: cr | Aug 16, 2006 2:26:29 PM
Didn't you guys see Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged me? :)
Posted by: jtd | Aug 16, 2006 2:26:54 PM
Ahh... so that's Victoria's secret... Wonder(if it's a bomb)-bra.
Posted by: orgreeno | Aug 16, 2006 2:27:41 PM
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