Originally Posted by FWAAA
eyecue has repeatedly posted that surgical implantation of plastic explosives would result in nearly immediate death (like that's really a problem?) - so fast, in fact, that a human bomb would die before the body could be detonated in a target-rich environment. I'm not certain he's correct.
Well it's fiction certainly, but
Series 3 Episode 10 of the TV show
Spooks (called MI5 on PBS) had a similar scenario as the plot. The mule-bomber did not immediately die after being implanted FWIW.