Underwear with explosive packet from
alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Photo Credit: National Post

So, we find out that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear hid the same powder (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) as used by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid who tried to blow up an American Airlines jet to Miami in 2001.

Umar gives a literal meaning to the term Molotov cocktail. I wonder what we will end up calling this al qaeda operative who made an error in terror now that we have discovered he was carrying a Weapon of Ass Destruction. Luckily for us there was no timing device (or knicker ticker as it is called in extremist circles) hooked up and so his fumbling with the accelerant saved hundreds of lives.

Here are a few suggestions for a media nickname: the backside bomber, the thonger bonger, the klutzy blitzer, the detonator hesitator, the under-asser harasser, the panty vigilante, the brief sharif, the boxer blaster.

I'm disappointed he didn't try to blow himself up on the beach: he'd be the speedo torpedo.

If he had carried a dirty nuclear device he'd be Farouk with the Nuke.

If he had hidden a small rocket in his pants he'd be the missile stower.