The threat has been deemed \u201ccritical\u201d by the U.S. State Department, which announced on Wednesday that it had inked a new deal with Baghdad to ramp up joint efforts to detect and recover sensitive nuclear materials before ISIL and other terrorist entities can get to them.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt continues to be our assessment that there is no indication ISIL has gotten hold of any material that would pose a nonproliferation threat, and no indication frankly that they are actively [seeking it out] \u2026 even if they do control some significant portion of territory in Iraq,\u201d the official said. \u201cThere\u2019s been no indication, thankfully, that they are on the lookout for what we would consider to be a WMD.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd even if they found it they wouldn\u2019t know what to do with it,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n
Concern about these materials slipping into the wrong hands seems to have become more pressing for the United States and Iraq in recent months as ISIL gains control of more Iraqi territory, mainly in the northern and central parts of the country, including Mosul and Falluja.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It doesn’t exist, but we’re worried that ISIS will get it’s hands on something that isn’t there. Makes complete sense to me.<\/p>\n
This is just a guess on my part, but we’ll probably need boots on the ground to secure that nuclear material that doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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