Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers

New Technique of Storing Bomb Materials Inside Body Cavity Nearly Kills a Saudi Prince

(CBS)  Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.

Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.

To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.

How did he do it?

Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.

This was a meticulously planned operation with al Qaeda once again producing something new: this time, the Trojan bomber.

The blast left the prince lightly wounded - a failure as an assassination, but as an exercise in defeating security, it was perfect.

The bomber persuaded the prince he wanted to leave al Qaeda, setting a trap.

Al Qaeda has an animated movie showing the meeting between the bomber and the prince. Asieri says more senior al Qaeda figures want to surrender and convinces the prince to talk to them on a cell phone.

In the conversation recorded by al Qaeda, you hear a beep in the middle of two identical phrases that are repeated by the bomber and his handler.

Explosives experts tell CBS News that beep was likely a text message activating the bomb concealed inside Asieri.

The Trojan bomber hands the phone to Prince Mohammed. He's standing next to him, and 14 seconds later, he detonates.

"This is the nightmare scenario," said Chris Yates, an aviation security consultant.

On a plane at altitude, the effects of such a bomb could be catastrophic. And there is no current security system that could stop it.

"Absolutely nothing other than to require people to strip naked at the airport," said Yates.

And al Qaeda says it will share its new technique via the Internet very soon. There is nothing that can stop that either.

[bmedork]

There was a young man from Arabia,
who stuck a bomb up his posteria.
The fuseness was lit, it smelled strongly of
and the prince cleaned him off of the cupola.

[Virgil-1]

There is no end to what man will lower himself to get what he wants!

[MichaelMooreFan]

Washington (AP) -- Just moments after delivering a fiery address to the government watchdog group Public Citizen in Washington yesterday, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, director of three of the five highest-grossing documentaries of all time, clutched at his abdomen, groaned loudly, and steadied himself on a nearby railing.
All of what followed is still unclear, although witnesses say...http://wp.me/pENnF-d

[johnindy15]

Feel sorry for the bomb squad if they ever have to retrieve one of these things. Ah heck, bring out the robot! I can hear it now. It is lodged in there pretty tight. Guess we will just have to detonate it. Uses the shotgun on the robots arm!

[covalentblue]

Send the media idiots some love anonymously from hatecards.net! They are so full of Sh*t!

[thesevenveils]

Al Qaeda has shown to be anal, but this takes the cake. All that work and the man fudged his mission.
This man was with the prince for 30 hours. Talk about uncomfortable. Wouldn't he be walking and sitting funny? And how could he have this massive up his rectum without him having the urge to evacuate his colon. For 30 hours! Maybe the bomber should have waited until prayers to detonate. Buns up!

[DrunkenMime]

I'm sorry but if someone has a POUND of anything in his rectum, he's going to be walking funny at the very least. If they suspect someone, they should have him run a half mile on a treadmill in a bomb proof area and see what falls out. I guarantee he won't be able to do that without making a mess...

[curiousQ]

maaaan... the idea of being on an exploding plane is beyond scary... not all that funny though. A 33,000 foot freefall while possibly burning alive... no sir, i don't like it.

Gotta hate the long standing repercussions of justifying war and the killing of civilians in order to secure our geopolitical power via control of the world's oil supply. And we were doing this to other countries WAY before 9/11, shoe bombs and tush TNT....

Here's our logic for the last few decades of middle east warring: Go to an unstable country, blanket bomb the civilians, sanction and starve them too, seize their commodities, occupy their land, invade their airspace, and then hope their corrupt governments don't brain wash them into thinking America is evil.... sounds logical.

I sincerely hope we can find a way to stop all of all of this world terror.. but the ante just keeps rising.

Was that un-American of me to post?

[rhs648]

curiousQ - You can be wrog without being un-American. Countries look out for their interests first. What is good for one country isn't always good for another country. Aside from your perception of American agression, ther is a lot of jealousy and resentment toward what othees perceive as our wealthy country. And there are many rotten leaders running their countries into the ground. Africa, for example, has a number of leaders who really don't care about the welfare of their eople. Your analysis is just too simple and leaves out too many variables.

[p3c-orion]

How do you defeat this at airports? Esay: just do as the Israelis have done for decades and use COMMON SENSE instead of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS in security measures. What group has committed 99.9% of all terrorist acts over the last 30 years? Pissed-off Arabic Muslim men between the ages of 15 and 45. Devote you security to them, and you will eliminate most of the problem, and free up the wheelchair-bound grandmothers, US Senators, and 4-year-olds with water pistols that are being harassed now.

[kenga186]

You said "What group has committed 99.9% of all terrorist acts over the last 30 years? Pissed-off Arabic Muslim men between the ages of 15 and 45."
I'm sorry to have to tell you that you are wrong, though it isn't too surprising if you live in the USA and don't pay much attention to world news.
Meet the Tamil Tigers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam

[pistol7621]

Well it does give 'A hole" new meaning to the smell of explosives..

[jerryintampa]

Maybe his Alah told him to stick it up his a**. Wow talk about gas! Good bye to another Islamic dirt bag!

[DisturbedMary]

I wonder if he got 21 boys?

[Lee_Harvey_Oswald]

At least he found a sure-cure for Constipation.

[DisturbedMary]

I love Abdullah Asieri's hat. It is soooooo gay.

[MikeBoston3]

Check out "Naked Lunch," William Burroughs. He mentions this tactic in the novel.

[LinKarpiscak]

You shouldn't be surprised. After all, assassin has the word "ass" in it twice.

[steve_s_denver]

Barney Frank will be head of the airport anal cavity division.

[jke1]

Why are we screwing around with these goat herders.

Put all the good muslims on a boat in the Gulf, bomb the middle east flatter than it is, sink the boats. No more problem.

The next time I sit in HK and a guy with towel on his head gets on my plane knowing that he may be "packing" I will have him removed.

To eradicate a virus or cancer unfortunately a few good people of cells must be eliminated. Harm a few, save the whole. When will the world wake up to the fact that Islam=Evil!

[corvuscorax51]

How perversely odd. Had anyone actually suggested that Islamic fanatics take their IEDs and stick 'em up their a**es, no doubt a Fatwa would have been sworn, and a huge hue and cry would have gone up alleging insensitive, disrespectful and offensive slandering of the Islamic faith.

[jnstrawn]

Terrorists will now start recruiting homosexuals in order to increase the size of the explosive.

[Danyboi787]

LOL, jnstrawn. But, you also forget that they kill them, but I can see them making an exception for gay Jihadists. Speaking of which, that guy in the video looks exactly like the type of person you would stereotype as putting a bomb up his stink hole. He is far creepier than the mountain men in the movie, "Deliverance". They must have shopped around far and wide in the creepiest corners of the earth to find that winner.