Like the People's Front of Judea? :D

They do not, however, show up in person at the airport and announce they have a bomb in their suitcase.

Even terrorists who don't mind blowing themselves up tend to frown upon the idea of being locked up.

Well, here's the latest "fad" in Iraq (now showing up in Afghanistan too): kidnap someone and release them in such a way as to make them a suicide bomber, witting or unwitting at that. Either way, the attack is seen to be done by a suicide bomber. Car bombs have been done this way and so have "walk" bombs. This is not new, nor is it surprising.

However, at airports in the US, a terrorist walking into an airport and announcing they have a bomb is certainly anything but commonplace. However, from the behavior of "the authorities", the authorities seem to have a lot of trouble recognizing that.

True.

Not necessarily true (i.e., not to say it's necessarily false either), for terrorists have also shown up at an airport before and announced they had a bomb (when they didn't have bombs although they had guns). And some terrorists who didn't mind suicidal attacks themselves have even welcomed being locked up for a while. (Some later engaged in suicidal terrorist attacks while others didn't.)

I hear that they have a crack suicide squadron (which meant something entirely different 20 years ago).

Getting back to the subject of jokes...well, first off, this is OT, but maybe it will put a smile on your face as you try to help me out here.

I can't for the life of me figure out how the joke goes with the punch line "Rectum? Damn near killed em". I always break a smile just thinking about the punchline, but have long forgot how the actual joke goes.

Someone help out, please?

You're thinking of the Judean People's Front. Splitters!

For the Life of Brian.

Ok, if you really expected that one to work with someone of any age, you need to get out more... :)

As I remember it from junior high, it involved a crude fellow recounting a fight in which he kicked his opponent in the .... A much more refined fellow who was listening tried to "correct" the account by suggesting the word rectum as a substitute for "...". Not getting the drift, fellow number one, the crude one, replied as you have quoted above.

The hole matter is distinctly distasteful. :D

Google it, and you'll get a few different jokes. The standard seems to be a teacher correcting a young student who says "a**":
But even better is this two-man vaudeville spiel:

Those are the splitters! You mean the Judean People's Popular Front?

I take it writing on my plastic bag of toiletries the words "bomb components" would not be a joke the TSA would appreciate. :D

Even spelling it "bob components" will result in a terminal dump.