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Al Qaeda has made a horrifying—if bizarre—advance in terrorist tradecraft.
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As recently reported by my friend Frank Gardner, security correspondent for the BBC, the suicide bomber who tried unsuccessfully to blow up Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism chief in August actually had the explosives inside his body.
It's possible the bomb—which was made from materials that wouldn't set off metal detectors—was swallowed or stitched into him in some fashion, but according to one usually authoritative Saudi official, the explosives had been inserted in the terrorist's rectum.
The target, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, escaped with minor injuries, but the blast left a large crater in the floor and pieces of the bomber all over the place, including an arm blown through the ceiling.
"Fortunately, the force of it went in the wrong direction," said the same veteran of the Saudi intelligence services, speaking privately about this explosive suppository, and stifling a laugh. (Art