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| 2017-01-16 | |
| [The Christian Science Monitor] Conservatives and the Obama administration have long disagreed about the threat of terrorists coming across the Mexico border. Data suggest the threat is not insignificant. Now, the Trump administration is poised to make it a priority. Islamic militants purchase a nuclear device from a sympathetic official in Pakistan and ship the weapon on the flip side of a drug trafficking route through West Africa to South America. Next, the package is smuggled north to the United States-Mexico border. Although this sounds like the plot line of a spy thriller, it is a scenario laid out in an online magazine produced by the Islamic State, the apocalyptic Syria-based terror group also known as ISIS. "From there it’s just a quick hop through a smuggling tunnel and ... presto, they’re mingling with another 12 million ’illegal’ aliens in America with a nuclear bomb in the trunk of their car," the 2015 ISIS article says. The debate over security along the US-Mexico border isn’t just about the millions of unauthorized migrants who have crossed the international boundary seeking work and better lives. And it isn’t just about the drug smugglers and assorted other criminals who routinely use the border as an easy back door into America. There is potentially a greater threat from a porous southern border.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Many things have been done that were not done before. Or... There's a first time for everything. The people charged with our security are required by their jobs to factor in, if not assume, the worst case scenario. (The above is not applicable to the Jarrett administration, of course.) |
| Posted by: charger 2017-01-16 22:45 |
| #4 I'm sure it has been attempted. Just that the FBI (and by extension, Homeland Security) has rather good detectors and given the nature of nuclear bombs, both nuclear explosive and dirty types, I'm sure the agencies involved is keeping it very quiet to prevent panics. How good are the detectors? FBI once detected and caught a guy going down I-5 in Washington State, turns out he was transporting his pet cat that just had radiation treatment for feline cancer. So I'll say it's very difficult, if not impossible, to smuggle nuclear anything into USA without massive clearances from various agencies. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-01-16 17:48 |
| #3 why hasn't it been done before? Your presupposition is that it HASN'T already been done. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-01-16 17:22 |
| #2 why hasn't it been done before? No need since they have ValJar in charge in the WH and Huma also close... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-16 14:54 |
| #1 ...I have said this in the past and will say it again:. If it's so easy to smuggle in a nuke, why hasn't it been done before? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-01-16 14:31 |