ISIS propaganda claims the group will have nuclear weapons within a year
MAY 23, 2015 1:56PM
HARRY TUCKER and NETWORK WRITERS news.com.au
THIS is the terrifying reality ISIS thinks it can achieve in a year — holding the world to ransom with nuclear weapons.
Reports out of an ISIS propaganda magazine claim that Islamic State are set to come into possession of their first nuclear bomb “within a year”.
Their plan is to either gain hold of an atomic device by purchasing it from weapons dealers with links to corrupt Pakistani officials.
The group admits however that they might face some challenges in obtaining such a weapon and would instead settle for a “few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive” instead.
The article says:
“Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table.
“The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilayah in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.”
“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.”
The piece is allegedly written by British hostage and journalist John Cantille and also claims that a future attack on the West would dwarf any of “the attacks of the past”.
The writer adds that, “They’ll 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 new propaganda comes after two big victories for Islamic State in the last week, including seizing almost full control of the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra after government defence lines collapsed.
The fall of the town to the Islamic State group is a stunning defeat for President Bashar Assad’s forces, days after IS militants launched their offensive against Palmyra in central Syria.
It is also an enormous loss to the government, not only because of its cultural significance, but because it would open the way for extremists to advance to key government-held areas, including Homs and Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for human rights reported that government forces collapsed in the face of IS attacks and withdrew from the town late yesterday.
The ruins at Palmyra are one of the region’s most renowned historic sites, and there are fears the extremists would destroy them as they did major archaeological sites in Iraq.
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