Editing Improvised explosive device (section)

====Surgically implanted====
{{Main|Surgically implanted explosive device}}
In May 2012 American [[counter-terrorism]] officials leaked their acquisition of documents describing the preparation and use of surgically implanted improvised explosive devices.<ref name=DailyBeast2012-05-14>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.thedailybeast.com//content/newsweek/2012/05/13/al-qaeda-s-body-bombs-al-asiri-s-next-threat.html
| title       = Ibrahim al-Asiri: The Body Bomb Menace
| publisher   = [[The Daily Beast]]
| date        = 14 May 2012
| access-date  = 14 May 2012
| quote       = Newsweek has learned that U.S. intelligence officials circulated a secret report that laid out in vivid detail how doctors working for al-Asiri had developed the surgical technique. An American government source familiar with the report described it as 15 to 20 pages, single spaced, and replete with schematics and pictures. "It was almost like something you’d see in Scientific American," the source said.
| author      = Daniel Klaidman, Christopher Dickey
}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20120514050214/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/al-qaeda-s-body-bombs-al-asiri-s-next-threat.html mirror]</ref><ref name=Boing2012-05-14>
{{cite news
 |url=http://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/youre-the-bomb-surgically.html 
 |title=You da bomb! (surgically-implanted explosives) 
 |publisher=[[Boing boing]] 
 |date=14 May 2012 
 |access-date=14 May 2012 
 |quote=According to Newsweek, US intelligence officials report that al Qaeda's explosives expert Ibrahim al-Asiri and medical doctors have been designing bombs to be surgically implanted into the bodies of suicide bombers. The idea is that the technique would somehow foil airport scanners. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "You da bomb!" 
 |author=David Pescovitz 
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517033413/http://boingboing.net/2012/05/14/youre-the-bomb-surgically.html
 |archive-date=17 May 2012
}}</ref><ref name=IBTimes-2012-05-14>{{cite news
 |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/340801/20120514/al-qaida-s-body-bombs-increase-fears.htm 
 |title=Al-Qaida's 'Body Bombs' increase Fears of Global Attacks by Master Bomb-Maker Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri 
 |work=[[International Business Times]] 
 |date=14 May 2012 
 |access-date=14 May 2012 
 |quote=Experts and intelligence sources say the terrorists could use the powerful explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate, known as PETN and insert it in the bodies of would-be suicide bombers. According to reports they would then be able to detonate the implanted explosives via injections. The bombs would not be detectable to airport body scanner, increasing risks of attacks similar to the 2011 September attack on the Twin Towers in New York and on the Pentagon. 
 |author=Anissa Haddadi 
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610051119/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/340801/20120514/al-qaida-s-body-bombs-increase-fears.htm
 |archive-date=10 June 2012
 }}</ref>
The devices were designed to evade detection.
The devices were described as containing no metal, so they could not be detected by X-rays.{{according to whom?|date=October 2024}}

Security officials referred to bombs being surgically implanted into suicide bombers' "[[Abdominal obesity|love handles]]".<ref name=DailyBeast2012-05-14/>

According to the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' UK security officials at [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI-6]] asserted that female bombers could travel undetected carrying the explosive chemicals in otherwise standard [[breast implant]]s.<ref name=TheMirror2012-05-14>{{cite news
 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/doctors-trained-to-plant-explosives-inside-832010 
 |title=Breast bombers: Doctors trained to plant explosives inside chest of female suicide bombers 
 |publisher=[[Daily Mirror]] 
 |date=14 May 2012 
 |access-date=14 May 2012 
 |quote=MI6 chiefs believe doctors have been trained to plant explosives inside the breasts of female suicide bombers. 
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514085514/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/doctors-trained-to-plant-explosives-inside-832010
 |archive-date=14 May 2012
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| url                  = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breast-implants-suicide-bomb-threat-2172911
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819100626/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breast-implants-suicide-bomb-threat-2172911
|archive-date=August 19, 2013
| title                = Breast implants suicide bomb threat: Heathrow on high alert over "credible" intelligence
| publisher            = [[The Daily Mirror]]
| date                =  16 August 2013
| access-date          =  21 August 2013
| quote               =  Security has been beefed up after intelligence al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on airlines flying out of London.
| last                 = Lines
| first                = Andy
}}</ref> The bomber would blow up the implanted explosives by injecting a chemical trigger.<ref name=IBTimes-2012-05-14/>