Posted on 12/07/2015 9:38:37 AM PST by b4its2late
We all know that Europe is in big trouble. Now it appears that the situation is even worse than most of us suspected.
A report by the European Union Parliament states that the Islamic State has been recruiting dozens of chemists, biologists, and nuclear physicists to build weapons of mass destruction - materials for which have already been smuggled into Europe.
Daily Mail:
The terror organisation, according to the briefing document, 'may be planning to try to use internationally banned weapons of mass destruction in future attacks'.
The document, which was compiled in the aftermath of the deadly attacks on Paris claimed that ISIS has already smuggled WMD material into Europe.
Experts fear that ISIS will be able to exploit a failure of EU governments to share information on possible terrorists.
Already, British police forces have been conducting exercises on how to deal with various types of terrorist attack. But the EU report claims that government should 'consider publicly addressing the possibility of terrorist attack using chemical, biological, radiological or even nuclear materials'.
The report, ISIL/Da'esh and 'non-conventional' weapons of terror warns: 'At present, European citizens are not seriously contemplating the possibility that extremist groups might use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials during attacks in Europe. Under these circumstances, the impact of such an attack, should it occur, would be even more destabilising.'
Rob Wainwright, head of Europol said after the attacks on Paris: 'We are dealing with a very serious, well-resourced, determined international terrorist organisation that is now active on the streets of Europe.
'This represents the most serious terrorist threat faced in Europe for 10 years.'
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Intelligence worry is that although the stolen suitcase / backpack nukes may not detonate due to age component age, the fissible radioactive material could readily be used as an effective “dirty bomb”.
A coordinated dirty bomb attack at financial centers would crash and cripple the economy like no other event to date.
Affected downtown areas would be evacuated and off limits for a very long time.
The litigous US public is very sensitive and wary of being exposed to anything approaching EPA radiological health limits.
Anything more than 500 CPM will make for a ghost town.
Bank and stock market brokerage outages due to interruption of operations would result in cascading financial and supply chain failure.
It’s a miracle that our adversaries haven’t carried out this type of attack,
Yet.
RE: “Yeah, I remember those too. Saw that even if they did exist from way back in the cold war era that they would be not usable even back around 9/11.”
No need to smuggle when there’s open borders. Good thing our borders are secure. Oh, wait, never mind.
Wonder if the San Bernardino wife studied more than basic pharmacology.
The EU purposefully brought Isis in, big time, in the name of refugees. They should stop feinting concern. They want Europeans dead.
Yup. I've been saying this for years and people think I'm an alarmist.
Yeah, true.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.