Undie Bomber Photos Released

ABC News:

A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit.

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Comments

[HypocrisyPosse]

03:45 PM on 12/30/2009

Wonder if PETN high explosives came from Iraq.

If it can be traced back to the Al Qaqaa complex where US military "misplaced"
some 380 tons of PETN following the invasion - that would mean there's 'only'
759,999+ POUNDS still unaccounted for.

Of course some may have been responsible for (the majority of) US miltary
deaths from IED attacks. But the DOD, for some strange reason, is reluctant
to share those details with their civilian "employers"
( in a democracy, in theory, that's you and me).

[JBS]

06:09 PM on 01/02/2010

The explosive used here appears to have been "home-made", it's not military grade PETN.

A substantial portion of the missing explosives from Iraq have been either recovered or accounted for (i.e. they know which car bombs were made using explosives from that cache). Not all of it unfortunately. Some still turns up from time to time.

There's evidence that the majority, about 250 tons was actually removed by the U.S. 3rd ID instead of being looted. Still that leaves 90 to 130 tons unaccounted for. Part of the problem is no one really knows how much was there to begin with.

A big chunk of that was used for the two bombings that destroyed the UN's makeshift headquarters at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad. Another substantial amount was used for the 2006 and 2007 bombings that destroyed the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra.

There are valid operational security reasons for not blabbing about it, i.e. don't tell the bad guys what we know or how we found it out.

[JShankel]

02:29 PM on 12/29/2009

Does anyone else find themselves looking at these soiled tighty whities and thinking "a trillion dollars...a massive global mobilization...occupation of two countries...an allegiance with who knows what kind of shysters in Pakistan...thousands of dead American soldiers...hundreds of thousands if not millions of foreign casualties...a decade lost...and all it takes to keep us in it...forever...is the occassional pair of smoldering jockies."

Ever get the feeling you're being played?

[stew66]

02:20 PM on 12/29/2009

Not to minimize this, but if the terrorists are resorting to blowing up their junk...

[Bouddicca]

02:01 PM on 12/29/2009

I love reading the word Al Qaeda then having my eyes slowly move over to the little blown up panties..

[PhillyQuaker]

01:19 PM on 12/29/2009

Those bloomers need a good soaking in Blew, I mean Blue, Cheer.

[Nunnya]

01:08 PM on 12/29/2009

Do they really need a tape measure?

[VOTER]

01:23 PM on 12/29/2009

Yes.

[Grannysue]

12:50 PM on 12/29/2009

So I suppose now we will have to board planes completely naked and have a very intense cavity search, trains look better and better all the time.

[newtom]

02:21 PM on 12/29/2009

Possibly. We have to take off our shoes now because Reid tried to blow up a plane with a shoe-bomb. This is going to make travel much more intersting.

[Aikaterina]

12:08 PM on 12/29/2009

Question: How & why did Abdulmutallab get a visa if he was a suspected terrorist?

Answer: Our agencies charged with safety, security, (FBI, CIA, NSA, HS, FEMA, DOJ, State Dept., local law enforcement, etc.) do not collaborate, share information, work together. They protect their own turfs, politicize everything, play games, one-upmanship, and often focus on keeping vital intelligence from or spying on one another, rather than working together.

Since passage of the Patriot Act and FISA bill, each agency taps phones, monitors emails, web sites, and collects vast amounts of information, yet do not utilize it expediently, efficiently or for the purposes they exist. Most heads of these departments and agencies are political appointees, party loyalists, rather than trained and experienced professionals in requisite fields: law-enforcement, intelligence, communications, transportation, medical, surveillance, etc. It's time to recruit experts, and stop putting in friends, donors, loyalists (like "heck 'uv a job Brownie) into these departments-agencies, who know nothing and cause more harm than good.

This isn't a left-right, conservative-liberal, GOP-Democrat issue, but one that's vital to everyone's safety, and it should be headed and run by those most capable, regardless as to ideological-political leanings.

[jasev01]

11:59 AM on 12/29/2009

bl e w his ba lls off good job

[jasev01]

11:58 AM on 12/29/2009

blew his balls off good job

[bolmah]

11:54 AM on 12/29/2009

One thing that comes to mind when I see this:

FIRE-CROTCH

[Deborah]

11:49 AM on 12/29/2009

Unless we are willing to have our testicles and vaginas checked for explosives, I do not see how this type of bomber can be stopped.

This is terrifying.

[MacManLB]

11:38 AM on 12/29/2009

Those look more like panties. He should be called the panty-bomber

[JonathanMoulin]

11:28 AM on 12/29/2009

That is some ugly underpants . Would photos still be made public if his undies were full of skid marks?

[stew66]

11:20 AM on 12/29/2009

New York Post headline this morning: Great Balls of Fire! (really, that's the headline).