Posted on 01/31/2016 6:46:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The following video and text don't supply an answer to that question.
The author of the text (which is in German) is purportedly a former member of the Islamic State who wants to warn the West that ISIS possesses four nuclear devices, and plans to use them against the United States, Russia, France, and Germany. What he says may well be a hoax, or more specifically, deliberately planted disinformation to achieve particular political ends. I can think of several Great Powers who would find it useful to disseminate the fiction that ISIS is ready to use nuclear weapons.
However, it could also be true. If it is, you may be sure that the intelligence services of Russia and the major Western powers are well aware of it. As the ISIS defector points out, the West has moles inside the highest levels of the Caliphate.
Before making this video, Vlad and I discussed the pros and cons of whether we should publish this material. After all, it serves the propaganda interests of the Islamic State to have this sort of thing disseminated. On the other hand, if it turns out to be true, and a mushroom cloud were to light up Berlin or Paris next week, we would have been remiss not to have put the information out.
So here it is, but with a huge CAVEAT: We have no idea whether the information given in this video and text is authentic. Listen to it or read it, and make your own best judgment.
The video and pdf were originally published by Netzplanet, which is also unable to confirm the authenticity of the story.
The text read out in the video and the text of the pdf are the same. Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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I am so screwed.
I think we would know real quick if they did get their hands on a nuke.
New girlfriend ?
ask Obama
Not if it’s from Iran.
They probably not nukes, but dirty radioactive devices. Almost as dangerous as nukes.
What would be their delivery system?
Probably a truck or cargo ship.
Well they have a new video threatening the West, implying something worse than 9/11. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3424684/White-jihadi-s-chilling-threat-ISIS-warn-West-pay-dearly-terror-attacks-worse-9-11-crushing-Muslim-rule-Spain-500-years-ago.html
If they had it and delivered it that way what would be the range of destruction?
Always willing to consider any applications!
"It will 9/11 times a hundred."
That's..."
"Yes, 91,100."
Hey, BTW, pipe up on this thread. You actually KNOW something about this topic, and you set my mind at ease about ‘suitcase nukes’ when we had that phone convo so many years back. I remember you telling me how hard it was to maintain and keep a Gamma-Emitting Firecracker functional for anything more than a year or two.
Tell ‘em bro.
Let ‘em sleep well tonight.
Well you were saying ......:o) Thought maybe ya had news !
We have to assume any of them have nukes and prepare accordingly.
There are too many unknown variables to answer that question.
They might as well detonate them in Mecca and medina...
Yes, we would be among the first to know.
Probably a ten mile radius for the worst of it.
Limited life components ..... Simple longevity of complex materials made by the limiting factors of man....... the autodidact polymaths of our era are fallible even in the arena of special weapons.
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