07.07.11

Lame Idea Bombs

Posted in Crazy Weapons, War On Terror at 11:26 am by George Smith

The absurd nature of yesterday’s terror warning news about surgically implanted bombs led me to think there must be at least one unit in the US threat assessment apparatus that spends its time thinking of such things.

Have they come up with the dead body bomb?

Here’s how it would work.

Al Qaeda rounds up all the enthusiastic young boys that have come from America or Pakistan to Yemen. All twenty of them.

Now, here’s where the planning gets tricky. They boys have to keep in touch with their parents at home, not letting on what they’re really into.

After the parents are truly upset and in a frenzy to get the offspring home, al Qaeda sacrifices them to the dead body bomb office.

They’re killed and a bomb is sewn into the corpse in hope the parents will do anything to get the body back into America for the family plot.

You see where this is going. The operation then follows the general procedure of the failed toner cartridge bomb plot, getting the package onto a transport, to be detonated at some time in flight.

DD is sure this has been considered by our threat analysis centers.

Again, this only underscores the problem the terror agency has in recruiting effective jihadis after a decade of attrition.

This video illustrates the severe problem facing al Qaeda.

It’s Adam Gadahn’s exhortation to buy firearms at gun shows. Which worried some people.

However, Gadahn is inarguably lame looking and in delivery, scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, a terrible example for recruitment.

At a time when you can see Muslims rising up in the street all through the Middle East, people who look a lot more savvy than Gadahn, this was another of al Qaeda’s terrible ideas momentarily dressed up as something to worry about by the mainstream media.

And, as you can see, the video has been turned into a joke — a sales pitch for a book called “Jihad Joe.”

This is not to say that al Qaeda can’t recruit at all, anymore. It’s just that the time when a Mohammed Atta walked into the local office is long gone.

So what other desperation bombs are there to devise?

Well, ten years ago there was the idea that al Qaeda would employ frogmen.

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Pretty please with sugar on top.

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