U.S. Fears ISIL Smuggling Nuclear and Radioactive Materials

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 9/5/2014 | Adam Kredo

[sten]

ISIL now controls about half of Iraq, potentially giving it access to some low-level radioactive and radiological materials, according to a State Department official.

I thought there were no WMD in Iraq...
-- Col Frank Slade

post of the day

[Nifster]

not that’s one scary and appropriate graphic

[Popman]

I wonder when, not if, a dirty bomb goes off in LAX or DFW who the libtards will blame?

[backwoods-engineer]

Smuggling? The southern border is so wide open, they could drive a thermonuclear bomb in a truck full of illegal alien kids right on through, over the interstate highways, and right up Main Street of some state capitol, “like the mailman bringing bad news.” (quote from the movie Short Circuit)

[Kozak]

Let’s hope there are no Cancer treatment hospitals, or significant industrial areas in ISIS territory.....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

[Carriage Hill]

Bookmark for later...

[butterdezillion]

Hopefully it won’t physically look like that for a while, but with the missing planes from Libya and the missing nukes from TX and Iraq, terrorists have a very dangerous combination of weapons to use against us. Funny how that happens when the US has a foreign enemy combatant in our White House...

[Nifster]

precisely

[what's up]

Ping

[bgill]

U.S. and Iraqi authorities have jointly ramped up their efforts to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear and radioactive materials

They're now ramping up efforts? Excuse me, but why weren't our efforts already at 100%? It couldn't be because hussein has been slipping some out to his muzzy bros, huh?

[bgill]

the United States is “not aware of any cases of these types of material being smuggled out of the country thus far,”

There are so many things wrong with that statement. Is the "US" our military or our dear leader? "Not aware" is the motto of our government these days. "These types of material" can be anything and they admit the bad guys could get it from hospitals. "Being smuggled... at this time", uh, but what about the previous time or a known time in the near future? "Out of the country", snort, but what about smuggling it into the country or that it's already here?

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[A Voice]

“.... we will just be playing footsie with a hydra. Cut one head off and two will grow in its place.”

Hail Hydra!