Al Qaeda Plants Bombs in Dogs. Somehow PETA is Not First to Strike Back

Al Qaeda Plants Bombs in Dogs

Al Qaeda Plants Bombs in Dogs. Somehow PETA is Not First to Strike Back

In case you didn't think planting explosives in ink cartridges and freight boxes was inventive enough, al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq stepped up the eerie insanity and sewed bombs inside stray dogs headed to the U.S. about two years ago.

French paper Le Figaro reported earlier this month that the terrorist group tried to put two dogs outfitted with surgically implanted explosives on a cargo plane in Baghdad. The unfortunate pups died before they were even put on board, but post mortem examinations revealed evidence of explosives and detonators set to go off during a flight to Los Angeles.

"This case illustrates the determination of al Qaeda militants, who are trying to circumvent terrorism controls by any means," French criminologist and aviation expert Christophe Naudin told Le Figaro.

While these terrorists are certainly determined, they seem to have missed the radar of the animal kingdom's number one ally.

PETA, the organization that would toss a bucket of red paint on one of Anna Wintour's winter coats in a flash, has yet to make a statement of contempt or even acknowledgement of this recent horror.

Congressman Edward J. Markey, however, has decided to take action. Rep. Markey (D-MA) introduced a new bill to House colleagues Tuesday that intends to expand security screening to 100 percent of airplane cargo, including freight on cargo-only aircrafts.

Markey authored a similar bill in 2007 to require all cargo transported on domestic and international passenger planes entering the United States be screened. His new proposalthe Air Cargo Security Actcalls for an expansion of that mandate to include less protected cargo planes.

"Al Qaeda continues to put aviation at the top of its terrorist target list, and our nation must close the cargo loophole that continues to put lives and our economy at risk," Markey said in a letter to the House.

"While we now require screening of 100% of air cargo transported on passenger planes, the thwarted Yemen bombing plot demonstrates that al Qaeda is turning its attention to less protected all-cargo aircraft. Accordingly, we must respond through strengthened security measures. On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda used box cutters; today, they are using boxes on all-cargo planes. We ignore this warning at our great peril," he concluded.

Under Markey's proposed bill, the Department of Homeland Security would be directed to develop a system to screen 100 percent of cargo transported on all-cargo aircraft within 3 years, with half of the cargo screened within 18 months.

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