ISIS's Dirty Bomb: Jihadists Have Seized 'Enough Radioactive Material To Build Their First WMD'

[Purveyor]

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Wednesday 10 June 2015

The Isis militant group has seized enough radioactive material from government facilities to suggest it has the capacity to build a large and devastating “dirty” bomb, according to Australian intelligence reports.

Isis declared its ambition to develop weapons of mass destruction in the most recent edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, and Indian defence officials have previously warned of the possibility the militants could acquire a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

According to the Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, Nato has expressed deep concerns about the materials seized by Isis from research centres and hospitals that would normally only be available to governments.

The threat of Isis’s radioactive and biological weapons stockpile was so severe that the Australia Group, a 40-nation bloc dedicated to ending the use of chemical weapons, held a session on the subject at its summit in Perth last week.

“This is really worrying them,” Ms Bishop said in an interview with The Australian.

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[DetlefK]

1. I suggested it, I suggest it again.

- Bomb anything that remotely looks like anything related to gas or oil.
- Bomb anything that looks like a workshop for cars.

Let's see how ISIS keeps fighting when they can't move.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. They have no way of deploying such a weapon.

But they do not appear to give a fuck if their own conquered people die a horrible death.

[yurbud]

3. a dirty bomb is not a particularly effective tactical weapon

After you detonate it, you'd have to come back ten years later and tell everybody who has cancer that you gave it to them, which they may or may not believe.

Unfortunately, "dirty effects" are only noticed when they are side effects of more direct weapons like nukes or depleted uranium shells.

When you realize that besides their tank and bunker penetrating abilities, that is what depleted uranium shells essentially are, we have used far more "dirty bombs" in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan than any terrorist could ever hope to.