ISIS Ready to Dirty Bomb US (Dan 8:8)

 

ISIS has enough nuclear material to make dirty bomb: report

ADAM EDELMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Today, 1:25 PM ET

Militants in the bloodthirsty jihadist group have purportedly stolen radioactive chemicals from government labs across Iraq and Syria and are now trying to assemble explosive devices with them, The Independent, a British newspaper, reported Wednesday, citing Australian intelligence reports and ISIS propaganda literature.

In the latest issue of Dabiq, ISIS’ perverted publicity magazine, members of the group allegedly bragged they could soon have the capability to build or purchase nuclear weapons, which could, in turn, be used to build dirty bombs — devices that use radiological or chemical materials along with conventional explosives.

Previously, ISIS members allegedly had said in the magazine, the group could try to buy a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

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

ISIS militants march through their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The group now controls vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.

“(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, according to The Independent, citing intelligence reports.

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.