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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Then the Middle East will die. Well, that should have been explained to them, but you know, Barry.
It sure gave ME a chub.
You’re ignoring the option of the nukes not being in ISIS controlled territory. We wouldn’t know until the device worked if they used a transport method that avoided radiation monitors.
So are you saying that ISIS probably does NOT have 4 nukes?
“relative”.....?
I am my own grampa !
Agreed. There’d be no “wait for the perfect opportunity” or “use it on a special date like 9/11”. Just simply detonating it - anywhere, even barren desert - would be enough to cause extreme consternation ‘round the world, significantly raising their perceived power among friend & foe alike. And using it ASAP would be paramount to ensure it wasn’t located & destroyed before they could use it - and locating & destroying it would be paramount for every single foe (to the point that methinks the US military would unilaterally act on it _without_ POTUS approval, act now in earnest and tolerate the political consequences later).
I’m here on the couch speculating and reading what you are ...... as post 26 suggests. Anything is possible, for sale etc...... 3rd world manufacturing capabilities have evolved waaaaaay beyond hammer monkey status. They can hurt us.
If a nuc goes off in Russia, Russian nucs will go off in various places too. If a nuc goes off somewhere else, Russian nucs might still go off in various places, as a deterrent.
“Explain in more detail while ISIS would use a nuke right away if they had it.”
The simple version:
The longer ISIS waits to use a nuke, the more likely it won’t work.
Batteries wear out.
Irradiated components degrade rapidly.
Radioactive components “wear out” on their own (half-life degradation).
Stupid people tend to break things.
And every major military in the region & world would be he11-bent on finding it and carpet-bombing the suspected location with extreme urgency.
And, rumor is, it’s really hard to hide one of these things (radiation-detecting satellites can basically see them all everywhere).
So you basically consider it a real possibility, whether or not this specific claim is true?
How many glass parking lots do those idiots want? We have that process down pat.
The Muslim way is to give warning, so those who are hit have a chance to choose Islam instead. If ISIS does have nukes and they need to use them very soon, the warning could mean that their use is imminent.
Start looking for hairless illegals with skin problems and low white counts...
I live near an intermodal piggyback facility about 15 mins west of Atlanta that interchanges containers between RR and truck.
I know local LE and ptb well.
They are freaked out...because the feds are freaked out.
Since 9-11...there has been a blackhawk flying overwatch. Since about 4 months ago...there has been two...24-7.
"How many people does it take to keep a secret?"
"One. Any more than that, it isn't secret."
All things are possible yet the nut claims the warheads are W25 Genies (dismantled decades ago) and W89 SRAM’s (which were never built) ....
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html
The terrorist make more via propaganda that actual acts of violence. Remember the Fonz from happy days...... ya have to have hit someone once before they fear ya. 9/11 did happen and now years of fear from that event. With a POTUS thats bringing in this trash on a daily basis.
I’m not gonna say it will or will not happen but the so called clues in this video are tipping my BS meter based on my experience.
Stay Safe !
Yep .... may need to show em some Bert the Turtle cartoons now....:o)
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