Talk:Body cavity bomb

Using common sense
Unnamed officials may have referred to "Surgically implanted improvised explosive devices". I question whether a device that is surgically implanted can meaningfully be referred to as "improvised". So I reverted the undiscussed merge of this article to improvised explosive device. Geo Swan (talk) 12:13, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Largely rubbish. Humans are not X-rayed at airports. They go through metal detectors, or use the scanners that use millimeter wave or backscatter (low power X-rays that DO NOT penetrate). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.27.98.95 (talk) 01:07, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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"The 'Body Cavity Bomb' (BCB) Concept"
A large section was added that seems to be implying that some guy named Robert J. Bunker is responsible for inventing the concept of a bomb contained in a bomber's body -- and that al Qaeda copied the idea from him.

I have doubts whether this new section is neutrally written.

I am concerned whether it was written by someone in a conflict of interest.

FWIW Gene Wolfe's short story Hour of trust described this kind of suicide bomb several decades ago. Geo Swan (talk) 03:12, 11 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I left the following email to the contributor who added this material Geo Swan (talk) 02:41, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * I am concerned that this large section you added to the wikipedia's article on Surgically_implanted_explosive_devices doesn't measure up to the wikipedia's standards. I voiced my concerns on the article's talk page, and when the individuals who added the section hadn't responded I checked, and found it has been our only contriution.
 * I am concerned that this large section you added to the wikipedia's article on Surgically_implanted_explosive_devices doesn't measure up to the wikipedia's standards. I voiced my concerns on the article's talk page, and when the individuals who added the section hadn't responded I checked, and found it has been our only contriution.


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surgically_implanted_explosive_device&diff=567963118&oldid=567404711


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Bunker's paper is largely a synthesis from other sources (not that's there's anything wrong with that!) but might better be used as a source for citable sources from WP:RS, instead of being dumped into this article. It can be found here: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_fac_pub/288/ &mdash; The Anome (talk) 09:59, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

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