Isis Claims It Could Buy First Nukes From Pak

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Isis claims it could buy its first nuclear weapon from Pakistan within 12 months


'We're looking to do something big, something truly epic'

HEATHER SAUL

Saturday 23 May 2015


Isis has used the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Dabiq to suggest the group is expanding so rapidly it could buy its first nuclear weapon within a year.

The hyperbolic article, which the group attributes to the British hostage John Cantlie, claims Isis has transcended its roots as “the most explosive Islamic ‘group’ in the modern world” to evolve into “the most explosive Islamic movement the modern world has ever seen” in less than twelve months.

Photojournalist Cantlie is regularly used in the terror group’s propaganda and has appeared in a number of videos, including a YouTube series called "Lend Me Your Ears". He has been held a hostage by Isis for more than two years.

John Cantlie has now been held captive for more two years by Isis militants

The piece, entitled "The Perfect Storm", describes militant Islamist groups such as Boko Haram, which recently pledged allegiance to Isis, uniting across the Middle East, Africa and Asia to create one global movement.

The article claims this alignment of groups has happened at the sane time as Isis militants have seized “tanks, rocket launchers, missile systems, anti-aircraft systems,” from the US and Iran before turning to the subject of more extreme weapons the group is not in possession of - such as nuclear weapons.

“Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table,” the article continues. “The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilāyah in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region."

It admits that such a scenario is “far-fetched” but warns: “It’s the sum of all fears for Western intelligence agencies and it’s infinitely more possible today than it was just one year ago.

"And if not a nuke, what about a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive? That’s easy enough to make."

An attack launched by Isis against America would ridicule "the attacks of the past".

"They’ll [Isis] be looking to do something big, something that would make any past operation look like a squirrel shoot, and the more groups that pledge allegiance the more possible it becomes to pull off something truly epic.

“Remember, all of this has happened in less than a year. How more dangerous will be the lines of communication and supply a year on from today?”

The capacity of Isis to acquire such a device is certainly beyond the group at the moment.

But Isis is indeed a well funded group having secured a number of oilfields in Syria and Iraq. The group also sells artefacts looted from historic areas seized during its insurgency, sometimes for six figure sums, as well as imposing taxes on civilians trapped in its self-declared caliphate and other methods of extortion.

The finances of the group have been estimated by some to be in the $2billion area, though it is impossible to verify how much money it actually has access to.

The threats come against a mixed backdrop of successes and losses in both countries; the group has been driven out of Tikrit in Iraq but has overrun Ramaldi and the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra.

A recent call to arms from its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also appeared to suggest it may be overstretched in some areas, with his speech urging supporters from across the world to travel to its territories in the Middle East.

In September last year, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, warned that the militant group could become the world's first "truly terrorist state".

“We will see the risk, often prophesied but thank God not yet fulfilled, that with the capability of a state behind them, the terrorists will acquire chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons to attack us," she said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-from-pakistan-within-12-months-10270525.html
 

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Such is the credibility of our neighbour that they can be trusted to arm anyone with nukes...... and even ISIS knows that.... question is whether they will bother buying these nukes or simply gain some helpful partners within radical pakistan to do their job for them..... Although stealing nukes is a far fetched idea but nothing seems improbable giving the rogue elements in pakistan include a nuclear scientist himself.
 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/isis-nuclear-material-dirty-bomb-report-article-1.2253492

ISIS has enough radioactive material to make dirty bomb: report

BY Dan Friedman , Adam Edelman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2015


The montrous fiends with the Islamic State hope to add another horrific weapon to their arsenal of terror — a “dirty” bomb.

The bloodthirsty jihadist group looted radioactive chemicals from government labs as they rampaged across Iraq and Syria and hope to assemble explosive devices with them, a British newspaper reported, citing Australian intelligence officials and ISIS propaganda.

The militants bragged in Dabiq, their perverted publicity magazine, that they could soon have the capability to build or purchase nuclear weapons. A more immediate threat could be “dirty” bombs — devices that use conventional explosives to spread radioactive or other hazardous materials.

According to The Independent, Australian intelligence officials were so concerned about the group’s intentions, they called for a meeting of the “Australia Group,” an international forum for stopping the proliferation of chemical weapons.

ISIS “is likely to have amongst its tens of thousands of recruits the technical expertise necessary to further refine precursor materials and build chemical weapons,” Julie Bishop, Australia’s minister of foreign affairs, said at the meeting, the newspaper reported, citing intelligence reports.

The renewed concerns over a potential radioactive weapon in the hands of ISIS come a year after Iraqi officials warned the UN the group had obtained materials that could “be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction."

A weapons expert said Wednesday that while the developments cause concern, they do little to boost ISIS’ ability to kill.

“There’s a big difference between radiological weapons and nuclear weapons,” Jim Walsh, an expert on nuclear weapons and terrorism with MIT’s Security Studies Program, told the Daily News. A dirty bomb is far less powerful.

A dirty bomb is different mostly because it causes more fear, which is what terrorists want, he said.

But terrorists have never deployed such a device.

“I don’t think people should be more fearful than they already are about these things,” Walsh said.

The renewed concerns over a potential radioactive weapon in the hands of ISIS comes nearly a year after Iraqi officials warned the U.N. the group had obtained materials that could "be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction."

In July 2014, Iraqi U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Ali Alhakim disclosed to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that ISIS had ransacked labs at a university in Mosul and stolen uranium and more than 2,000 sarin-filled rockets.
 

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