Life imitates art with the terrierists

Definitely not one for Tom Rick’s War Dogs of the Week series:

AL-QAEDA operatives in Iraq tried to unleash deadly terror in the skies by deploying a pair of dogs on a US-bound plane, it has emerged.

The plot failed because the bombs were so badly stitched inside the dogs that they died, according to a report in the respected French daily newspaper Le Figaro.

“This case illustrates the determination of al-Qaeda militants, who are trying to circumvent terrorism controls by any means,” French criminologist Christophe Naudin, an aviation security expert, told the newspaper.

The plot unfolded two years ago, when al-Qaeda bomb makers grabbed the two stray dogs off the street and surgically implanted powerful explosives and detonators in each, the New York Post reported.

Which, of course, brings to mind this:

How long before Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris come under control orders?