{"id":5478,"date":"2009-09-29T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:01:05","slug":"aaaaaaaaaagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Aaaaaaaaaagh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Al-Quaeda suicide bomber succeeds by\u00a0 – not to make excessive light of the situation – doing what many red-blooded westerners would have encouraged him to do<\/a>\u00a0– sticking the bomb where the sun doesn’t shine:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

How did he do it?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Upside:\u00a0 comedy gold for Jon Stewart and Jay Leno.<\/p>\n

Downside:\u00a0 according to CBS, it’s currently un-screenable, short of giving cavity searches to airline passengers.<\/p>\n

And as nosy as TSA can be, I don’t think even they <\/em>wanna go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Al-Quaeda suicide bomber succeeds by\u00a0 – not to make excessive light of the situation – doing what many red-blooded westerners would have encouraged him to do\u00a0– sticking the bomb where the sun doesn’t shine: Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}