Terror 'Mules': Bombs in Bodies
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Even if every airport in the United States scanned every bag
loaded onto every airplane for explosives, and every passenger went under the
metal-detector, a bomb could still get onto a passenger jet, experts say. The
Federal Aviation Authority's next generation of holographic body imaging
scanners can be trumped too. Welcome to the world of the "terror mule." Criminal
groups running drugs and diamonds into the United States have for years smuggled
contraband by stuffing it into condoms and having a "mule" swallow the load, or
by having it implanted surgically or rectally. The same technique can be used to
smuggle plastic explosives like Semtex past security at an
airport. Welcome to
the world of the "terror mule." Criminal groups running drugs and diamonds into
the United States have for years smuggled contraband by s
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tuffing it into condoms and having a "mule" swallow the load,
or by having it implanted surgically or rectally. The same technique can
be used to smuggle plastic explosives like Semtex past security at an
airport.
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