Terrorism and Underwear

I can’t make this stuff up, but a little humor in an otherwise serious topic is occasionally necessary. A Pakistani newspaper is reporting that terrorists are starting to use suicide underwear since security personnel usually only search the upper body. Here is the story in its entirety:

Terrorists develop ‘suicide underwear’
By Imran Asghar

RAWALPINDI: Would-be suicide bombers could be using explosives “underwear briefs” rather than explosives jackets to evade “conservative” body searches, sources said on Wednesday.

Sihala Police College forensic lab sources told Daily Times that the study of recent suicide attacks showed that suicide bombers used “explosives-laden” under-garments, briefs in particular, to carry out the attacks.

The sources said that the explosives could weigh between five kilogrammes to seven kilogrammes, made deadly by adding glass splinters, metal ball bearings and bullets. The law enforcers normally search upper body parts sparing the “privates”, the sources said, hence assailants are increasingly using the lower body parts to dodge the searches. The sources said that forensic experts were trying to devise methods to pre-empt suicide bombing. The experts have achieved successes in “Post Bombing Investigation,” the sources said, adding that resources are sharpening “Pre Bombing Investigation” techniques.

I guess we’ve come to the point in the war on terror where security personnel must be trained to differentiate between skid marks and explosive materials.