....fueled by a hundred pounds of uranium stolen in....Iraq, of all WMD-free places.
One thing we can count on: It won't stay in Iraq for very long:
M[uslims] boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical was reported missing from Mosul University.
Among [Muslim]s making online threats to the West is British explosives expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in Dudley, West Midlands, for the Middle East in 2012.
Using the Muslim name, Muslim-al-Britani, he posted on Twitter: ‘O by the way Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found some Radio active material from Mosul university,’ the Mirror reports.
He continued: ‘We’ll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We’ll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area.
‘This sort of a bomb would be terribly destructive if went off In LONDON becuz (sic) it would be more of a disruptive than a destructive weapon,’ before having his Twitter account suspended.
It is most likely not an idle boast. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim has already warned the U.N. of precisely this possibility, and ISIS did, after all, conquer Mosul six months ago, so they've had ample time to gather such nuclear materials for obligatorily nefarious purposes. It's also likely that since ISIS members are publicizing their nuclear acquisitions, they've already got a radiological weapon in place somewhere in a targeted Western city - perhaps more than one - and are only waiting for the opportune time to set it (or them) off.
New Year's Eve in Times Square, perhaps?
It's not Loki and his Chitauri army....
....but it would bring 2015 in with a bang, and would be Barack Obama's belated "fundamental transformation" Christmas gift.
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