This very real threat was corroborated in March by Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), who “warned that Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS could exploit the capabilities and knowledge of Latin American smuggling networks to infiltrate the U.S. through Mexico and possibly bring in weapons of mass destruction.”
by Edwin Mora, Breitbart News, June 3, 2015:
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine, indicated that it could purchase a nuclear weapon in Pakistan, take it to Nigeria, and then smuggle it into the U.S. through Mexico by using existing trafficking networks in Latin America.
In an op-ed article published in the ninth edition of ISIS’ Dabiq magazine released in late May, the jihadist group claims it could transport a nuclear device in the same way illicit drugs are smuggled into Europe through West Africa, adding that Boko Haram’s presence in Nigeria could facilitate the transaction.
The Nigeria-based Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, pledged allegiance to ISIS in March.
In March, Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), warned that Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS could exploit the capabilities and knowledge of Latin American smuggling networks to infiltrate the U.S. through Mexico and possibly bring in weapons of mass destruction.
The general, in October 2014, acknowledged that illegal drugs from South America move “through West Africa, up the Maghreb and into Western Europe,” adding that ISIS enemy al Qaeda and its affiliates take “a lot of money to allow it to flow.”
According to the alleged author of the Dabiq op-ed article, kidnapped British photojournalist John Cantlie, ISIS could smuggle a nuke into the U.S. by using the same route and reversing the flow— moving the nuke from West Africa into South America, from where it could be transported into the United States through Mexico.
“Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table,” Cantlie wrote in the article entitled “The Perfect Storm.” “The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilāyah [province] in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.” He addded:
The weapon is then transported over land until it makes it to Libya, where the mujāhidīn [fighters] move it south to Nigeria. Drug shipments from Columbia bound for Europe pass through West Africa, so moving other types of contraband from East to West is just as possible.The nuke and accompanying mujāhidīn arrive on the shorelines of South America and are transported through the porous borders of Central America before arriving in Mexico and up to the border with the United States.
“From there it’s just a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel and hey presto, they’re mingling with another 12 million ‘illegal’ aliens in America with a nuclear bomb in the trunk of their car,” he also wrote.
If not a nuke, ISIS could easily smuggle in “a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive” that is easy to manufacture, said the article.
Cantlie wrote that ISIS, which started as a movement in Iraq, has suddenly morphed into a global phenomenon that the West and the democratic world as a whole is ill-prepared to handle.
He said that Boko Haram controls most of Nigeria, home to “an exhausted and smashed national army that is now in a virtual state of collapse”.
While testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in March, Gen. Kelly noted, “Last year, ISIS adherents posted discussions on social media calling for the infiltration of the U.S. southern border. Thankfully, we have not yet seen evidence of this occurring, but I am deeply concerned that smuggling networks are a vulnerability that terrorists could seek to exploit.”
“While there is not yet any indication that the criminal networks involved in human and drug trafficking are interested in supporting the efforts of terrorist groups, these networks could unwittingly, or even wittingly, facilitate the movement of terrorist operatives or weapons of mass destruction toward our borders, potentially undetected and almost completely unrestricted,” he added.
The general, speaking at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. in October 2014, warned that Latin American drug cartels were working with jihadist groups in West Africa, namely Sunni group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliates.
KrazyKafir says
That’s two excellent reasons for sealing the southern border, first, to lessen greatly the drug flow, and secondly, and most important, to stop weapons of mass destruction coming through. The most important points that should be seized like a dog with a bone that has escaped the clueless ROP.
Jay Boo says
That may be true but, sealing up the border is just ‘reacting’ to the symptoms and not attacking the disease of Islam.
There are other easier ways to carry out a Nuke attack without crossing the southern border. I won’t be more specific just in case they haven’t thought of it yet.
What motivates Muslims to follow such an obviously crap ideology as Islam in the first place? Muslims must spy on each other constantly or else it all falls apart. Allah isn’t watching over them. After all, does ‘Allah’ really care that Muslims pray five times a day at specific times of the day? If Muslims were allowed to pray at the times most convenient it would make it difficult for Muslims to spy on each other. Ramadan is during daylight hours (same reason) A call to prayer is just more spying.
Islam is extremely fragile (when revealed)
KrazyKafir says
Instead of letting the left establish the southern border debate as being all about anti-immigration, the right should fight on the more important grounds of dramatically reducing drugs which is the number one cause for gangs north and south, and plugging a giant hole for weapons of mass destruction.
Papa Whiskey says
This is very scary-sounding, but if ISIS could do this they would do it, not telegraph the punch like this. It should be remembered that Saddam Hussein’s much feared WMD arsenal proved in the end to be nothing but an enormous bluff — and that ISIS is largely run by veterans of Saddam’s security forces.
Don McKellar says
I agree.
I am far more concerned by mysteriously missing jet airliners than this.
voegelinian says
The West is stupid enough to fail to do what’s necessary to protect America even after ISIS telegraphs their intents. And ISIS is likely not so stupid that they don’t know this. Meanwhile, the purpose of the “telegraphing” is embolden and inspire Muslims around the world.
Robert G. Smith says
I have long advocated a system like the febce between North and South
I have long advocated a system such as the fence between North and South Korea. It works there and could work here if congress would get off their lazy buts and insist that our “ahem” so called president does this. There should be no further discussions about immigration reform until such a barrier is completed
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Angemon says
Translation:
“You uppity kuffars are begging your illegitimate, non-sharia compliant governments to stop paying the jiziya to Pakistan because a great deal of it ends up in the hands of our mujahideen brothers? Well, you better think twice – who knows what might happen if your puppets in Pakistan stop getting their pockets stuffed?”
Bikku says
As an Indian I would hate to see that to happen, but for the Americans to open their eyes something like this needs to happen in their land, but in smaller magnitutde. Your American govt has been arming Pakistan against India up to the teeth and funded in billions so that the terror monster called Pakistan could create problem for India. I would like to remind Americans what Ms. Clinton said about Pakistan’s policy, which unfortunately applies to USA also. “You can’t keep (feed) snakes in your backyard & think they’ll bite only your neighbours”. As an Indian and knowing well the enemy called Pakistan and its mullah mindset they would give their atomic bomb to ISIS free of charge for the destruction of christian USA or any Christian land.
wildjew says
A nuclear-armed Iran will be more than happy to accommodate ISIS like they reportedly accommodated al-Qaeda in the 9/11/2001 attacks.
BW022 says
IMO, a false reason to be worried.
In reality, if a terrorist group had a nuclear bomb, they could get it into New York or Los Angeles simply by putting it in a shipping container. Honestly, few countries check shipments leaving the country. US Customs wouldn’t inspect it until it was already in the country. They could also just put the weapon in a small private boat. Going such a strange route is… unnecessary.
The reason to secure the southern border is to stop people — specifically terrorists coming in to do more mundane attacks — train bombings, hijackings, poisoning water supplies, blowing up power plants, etc.
Godwin says
Start forest fires, too.
Parousia says
Searching for an excuse to set up a base in Nigeria? Here it is.
But there is an easy way to seal the said route that ISIS could exploit: stop the war on drugs. The route collapses naturally.
Its that simple……
Myxlplik says
Heck, who needs to smuggle. Our immigration policies in regards to Islam will be every bit as destructive, if not more than nuclear weapons.