Is This Plausible?

Is the terrorist working with a ninja?

Serious response: probably, although I'm not sure how long they would live, so you might have to do it pretty close to when you want to do it and it might be suspicious to have the large and fresh surgery scars you would sustain from the operation.

Could a really determined terrorist have explosives and a remote detonator surgically implanted in his/her body and just walk up close to their intended target and have someone blow them up[no pun intended) from a remote location?

...Whether you could cram enough explosives to do much damage is a question for the science minded amongst us!

Could a really determined terrorist have explosives and a remote detonator surgically implanted in his/her body and just walk up close to their intended target and have someone blow them up[no pun intended) from a remote location?

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

Could a really determined terrorist have explosives and a remote detonator surgically implanted in his/her body and just walk up close to their intended target and have someone blow them up[no pun intended) from a remote location?

Probably easier to inject the person full of nasty contagious virus (Let's pick one at random... oh, let's say, Military Smallpox for example) and then buy her and here friends a round trip ticket to see the world with stops at such lovely ports as New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Madrid, Sydney and Cairo. Metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs won't have a clue, and you can probably get a nice worldwide dispersal in less than a week.

A global pandemic could be a bit risky to the "home crowd", but if you're a true fanatic, then you're probably going to a better afterlife anyway, just let the chips fall where they may...

(the world is a very dangerous place, and the best defense starts with minimizing the motivations behind such attacks, but that's probably a discussion for another thead).[/quote[/b]]

you are preaching to the choir...oh but I wish everyone would listen and agree to that and make it their litany...no profit in it though...

Regarding the biological agent scenario, note that a relatively low budget operation (a few million dollars???) with a small number of people could produce a disproportionately large effect. This so called asymmetric threat is a serious problem facing the world today.

Brandon9000 wrote:

Regarding the biological agent scenario, note that a relatively low budget operation (a few million dollars???) with a small number of people could produce a disproportionately large effect. This so called asymmetric threat is a serious problem facing the world today.

How to keep the carriers alive and healthy seeming enough to get them around?

Maybe choose a bug or modify one to get a suitable incubation period. If the carrier went on a tour of the US, you might have many separate epicenters for the outbreak. The really scary aspect here is that if you almost always catch the people who try this in time, but finally one gets through, you still lose.