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I'm not entirely clear why they think this. There's a huge number of problems involved in the concept of surgically-implanting a bomb inside a person: surgeon skill, infection issues, toxicity of explosives, how to detonate, the dampening effect of water mass on explosives, etc. So from the top, the difficulties of doing this in a third-world country would be very difficult to overcome.
Aircraft defense still boils down to: x-ray everything that goes on to the plane to prevent Locherbie attacks and lock the cockpit door. Everyone knows that a hijacked plane now represent potential mass death, so there's nothing to lose to attack a hijacker. DHS still constantly talks about the terrorist attacks that they've stopped that they can't talk about, yet you never hear about the TSA stopping mad bombers at the security checkpoints.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/body-bombs-are-a-good-sign-dhs-insider-claims/
Aircraft defense still boils down to: x-ray everything that goes on to the plane to prevent Locherbie attacks and lock the cockpit door. Everyone knows that a hijacked plane now represent potential mass death, so there's nothing to lose to attack a hijacker. DHS still constantly talks about the terrorist attacks that they've stopped that they can't talk about, yet you never hear about the TSA stopping mad bombers at the security checkpoints.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/body-bombs-are-a-good-sign-dhs-insider-claims/
