http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061015-756726-islamic-state-has-means-to-make-a-dirty-bomb-but-seeks-a-real-nuke.htm Don't Look Now, But 'JV' ISIS May Soon Have A Nuke
*War On Terror: *A report from a trusted U.S. ally claims the Islamic State now has enough radioactive material to make a dirty bomb — a terrorist WMD. This is the post-9/11 world President Obama has wrought. Julie Bishop, Australia's foreign minister, says NATO is alarmed over dangerous materials that the Islamic State has taken from laboratories and hospitals, in particular nuclear material. "This is really worrying them," Bishop told the Australian newspaper. And Britain's Independent <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isiss-dirty-bomb-jihadists-have-seized-enough-radioactive-material-to-build-their-first-wmd-10309220.html>, citing Australian intelligence, reports that IS has "enough radioactive material from government facilities to ... build a large and devastating 'dirty' bomb." This is alarming on a number of levels. Just last month, IS announced its desire to create weapons of mass destruction and claimed it might be able to buy a working nuclear weapon from Pakistan within a year. Given the shambles that U.S. Mideast policy is in after nearly seven years of diplomatic ineptitude, that's a very real and frightening threat. With the looming one-year anniversary of the establishment of the caliphate — really, the fall of Mosul to IS forces — the threat from the old al-Qaida is metastasizing. That's a big reason Obama is sending 500 U.S. military "trainers" back to Anbar province in Iraq. It's unraveling faster than even he thought it might, and he's surely worried that feckless Democrats will be crushed in the next election if he doesn't at least appear to care. And coming on the heels of Obama's admission <http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/politics/obama-abadi-iraq-germany-g7/> that he "no complete strategy" in place for dealing with the Islamic State — 10 months after he first declared he had no strategy — you begin to wonder. Also last year, he likened IS to a "JV team" compared to al-Qaida. Well, the JV team looks like it's going nuclear, ready for a varsity move like al-Qaida's 9/11 attack. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins June 17. Having gobbled up pieces of Iraq and Syria, IS "is likely to begin and end Ramadan with attempted spectacular military offensive actions in Iraq and Syria," said the Institute for the Study of War <http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis%E2%80%99s-military-operations-during-ramadan-forecast-2015>, a U.S. think tank. All this because Obama chose to walk away from a war that was already won in Iraq — then encouraged a foolhardy Arab Spring that empowered our enemy Iran, dissolved functional governments in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt, and isolated Saudi Arabia and Israel. As everything unravels, Obama may just kick the can down the road and let the next president deal with it. Given the mess he's made, that might be his best idea yet. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmMXVpaThyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MzQwMzAwNzI-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbDM1NThjBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQzNDAzMDA3Mg--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
