ISIS Moving Into Pakistani Horn (Dan 8:8)

 

 ISIS gaining traction in nuclear-armed Pakistan: Intelligence analysts

While President Barack Obama, his so-called security team and his news media water-carriers push the Iranian nuclear deal to prevent an Islamist regime from obtaining a nuclear bomb, reports coming out of the troubled nation of Pakistan on Wednesday are all but being ignored, at least for the time-being. One such intelligence report indicates that members of the notorious and bloodthirsty terrorist network, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, attacked a platoon of Pakistani soldiers killing at least three of them and wounding several others, according to Steven Dunsforth, a former U.S. police advisor in Afghanistan.

While the “always late to the party” Obama administration claims ISIS is only a threat to Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon, it’s been reported by regional newspapers in the Middle East, Asia and Africa that the Sunni terrorist army is recruiting members from a number of Muslim countries and at times entire terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria and some of the Pakistani Taliban have sworn allegiance to ISIS, which formerly called itself al-Qaida in Iraq.
What troubles many intelligence, military and law enforcement officers about a powerful jihadist organization becoming powerful in Pakistan is the fact that unlike Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen and other nations, Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons. If the extensively corrupt Pakistani government be toppled or significantly infiltrated by ISIS or its associate organizations, they would have access to atomic bombs.

According to reports, ISIS has had a presence in Pakistan at least since the Summer of 2014, but it didn’t strike any targets until the recent attack on soldiers. “As they did in Iraq, they attack a nation’s military, police and security forces just to scare them and cause civilians to panic. It’s the fear — at least initially — that helps ISIS to gain the momentum to start controlling territory and increasing their numbers,” according to Stanley Solomon, a former U.S. military intelligence operative and former police special weapons and tactics officer.

Solomon points to the attack last Saturday that appears to be ISIS’s modus operandi. A group of terrorist snipers attacked a column of army vehicles traveling from one military installation to a security garrison. The snipers picked off three soldiers that fell dead instantly. While the Pakistani government claims ISIS is a minimal threat to their nation other claim ISIS’s threat in the region may be growing.

According to law enforcement officials who spoke with the Examiner, the Obama White House and his advisors, such as Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice, believe ISIS can’t be more of a problem for the Pakistani government than its various predecessors, such as al-Qaida and the Taliban. They believe that if Pakistan becomes so corrupt as to cause a groundswell of protests and uprisings by citizens, then it may become time for real concern especially with nuclear weapons at stake.