Get Back To Me When The Plane Goes Down

Placed firmly in the category of I'll believe it when I see it, is the MI5 contention that there are jihadist women out there getting explosive breast implants.

I've seen a few references to this around the internet. While I don't doubt that some wacky crew could actually manage it once, I can't see women lining up to do this, nor is it actually clear that the damage would be as bad as they say it is. The damage could be pretty awful, but the propagandist who came up with this one wants us to believe that explosive implants would always and everywhere result in a plane crash.

I doubt it.

What I doubt even more are the logistics involved. It adds an extra layer of expense and complexity on top of an already shaky situation for the terrorists, which is why I think MI5 made this up: MI5 has the sort of tax-base which allows them the luxury of spending more money on the latest weapons systems. Sure, some terrorists can think this up too, but they just don't have the funding or the nice comfortable high security building within which to do this sort of stuff on any sort of regular basis.

Besides, government funded entities are racking up a spectacular record for coming up with scary scenarios, especially when budgets are in question.