Links
Body scanner wouldn't have foiled syringe bomber, says MP who worked on new machines
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plans to foil terrorist attacks by installing body scanners at UK airports are doomed to failure, according to an MP who helped to design the machines.
Tory MP Ben Wallace, who worked on the scanners at defense research organization QinetiQ before entering Parliament in 2005, said the £100,000 'millimeter wave' machines would not have stopped syringe bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from trying to mount his attack on Christmas Day.
The terrorist had sewn high explosives into his underpants, which he attempted to detonate as the plane flew over Detroit.