UTTERLY CHILLING – AT 11:47 A.M. ET:   This is an expansion of our earlier report of claims by ISIS that it could soon acquire a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.  The additional detail is chilling.  There is no independent reporting to back up these claims, but, given the history of ISIS, I'd take the claims very seriously.  From PressTV of Iran: 

The ISIL terrorist group claims that it has enough money to buy a nuclear weapon from Pakistan and carry out an attack inside the United States next year.

The group said in an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq that the weapon could be smuggled into the United States via its southern border with Mexico.

British journalist John Cantlie wrote in the article ISIL “has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilayah (Province) in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.”

“The weapon is then transported overland until it makes it to Libya, where the mujahidin move it south to Nigeria,” the journalist said.

He added that “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.”

Cantlie continued the weapon and accompanying radicals would then move up through Central America and Mexico before entering the US.

"From there it's 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," he wrote.

"Perhaps such a scenario is far-fetched but it's the sum of all fears for Western intelligence agencies and it's infinitely more possible today than it was just one year ago,” Cantlie said.

Cantlie is a photojournalist who was abducted in Syria by ISIL in November 2012. He has appeared in several videos since his abduction and criticized Western powers.

COMMENT:  Nice, huh?  And yes, despite the propagandistic tone of the article, it is more realistic today than last year.  And in five years it will be very realistic. 

But still, our borders are porous, and we have a president who is indifferent at best.

May 26, 2015