Below The Beltway

Exploding breast implants:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — A new terror threat in the skies: al-Qaeda may be planning suicide attacks on airliners with bombs hidden inside the human body that would be invisible to airport scanners.

According to British intelligence sources, the move to surgically implanted devices comes as more and more airports have introduced body scanners at security checkpoints.

The implants would not only escape detection, but according to security and medical experts, they could hide enough liquid explosives to bring down an airliner.

First it was the “shoe bomber,” Richard Reid, who tried to detonate a bomb built into the bottom of his shoe.

Then in December, the so-called “Christmas bomber” allegedly tried to bring down a passenger jet with explosives that had been sewn into his underwear.

Now a new terror threat: surgically implanted explosives.

“It seems like these days, any of these things could really happen,” said Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Stuart Linder. He specializes in body sculpting. He says the idea of silicone implants that could be injected with powerful liquid explosives is not only possible, but plausible.

“The consideration that a silicone-gel implant could be placed in a woman’s body with an explosive internal device is something that is considerably possible,” said Linder.

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Security experts say the surgically implanted explosives would go undetected by full-body scanners at airports.

According to Australian security experts, the best way to detect these new kinds of implanted explosives is with a very old-fashioned but highly effective detection method: the nose of a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog.

Or, a group of high school boys.