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Old Apr 7, 2006 | 9:18 am
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Wally Bird
 
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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.
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