Originally Posted by Teacher49
According to a Columbian movie. "Maria Full of Grace," cocaine is muled via compressed tube enclosed in rubber or latex sheaths and swallowed and which, if they burst in the gut, mean certain death.
Bags of silicone and saline are routinely inserted behind the breast -- why not plastique?
Excellent point. Perhaps the explosive could itself be encapsulated within some silicone? Even assuming that
eyecue is correct (that explosives are highly toxic), wouldn't that likely protect the suicide bomber long enough to wreak their terror?