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Terrorist Anatomy

The likelihood and consequences of surgically implanted terrorist explosive devices; and the role of credit rating agencies in the debt crisis.

Reality Check

Bombs inside human beings?

According to a report the New York Times, there is intelligence to suggest that terrorists might be considering conducting attacks with bombs planted inside their bodies. A tactic to get around the security measures at airports.

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A demonstration of a "full body scanner" at O'Hare International airport in Chicago

Sajjan Gohel of the Asia Pacific Foundation told Steve Crilley there have been concerns that terrorists will resort to such tactics ever since 2009, when a militant wounded a Saudi prince by detonating a bomb that was believed to have been inside his body.

Finance Watch

As the Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis visits Vienna with the aim of winning Austrian sympathy for the Greek government's efforts to get to grips with the debt crisis, we look at credit rating agencies. One of the complicating factors in the crisis is the role of such agencies, which have downgraded Greece as well as Portugal many times recently. Thierry Philipponnat has just been appointed as the secretary general of Finance Watch - a new European organisation to represent the public interest in the reform of financial regulation. He told Joanna Bostock rating agencies play a double role - "judge and jury" at the same time, and that the problem lies with entire system, which in his view needs to be fundamentally reformed.

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