Nuclear threat from ISIS is very real - Obama and Cameron play imaginary war games

The nuclear threat from ISIS is a very real scenario because security officials are apprehensive that the Islamic State is plotting to use drones to spray deadly nuclear waste over British cities. Since the threat is considered to be real enough, David Cameron and Barack Obama held a ‘war game’ session on how to respond to such an attack that could kill thousands and leave the target town or city uninhabitable for years.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 1 April 2016.

It is common knowledge that drones can be purchased quite easily on websites such as Amazon and there was already evidence of IS trying to use them.
Prime Minister David Cameron cautioned that the terrorists would want to kill as many people as they possibly could, using whatever materials they can get their hands on. Speaking before the war-games dubbed as a ‘doomsday scenario’, The Prime Minister added that many summits are about dealing with things that have already gone wrong and that we are trying to put right. But, this Nuclear Summit is about something we are trying to prevent.
At a nuclear terror summit in Washington, world leaders had conducted a planning session, complete with TV footage of fictitious news broadcasts, to prepare for a drone attack. In the scenario, terrorists managed to steal nuclear material from a health facility and smuggle it into Britain and other Western countries. Some was detected by the intelligence agencies but other consignments got through.
The toxic material was apparently procured by jihadists on the highly encrypted ‘dark web’ after being stolen from the health site. Subsequently, drones – similar to those used to dust crops – were used to spread the lethal material. The gravity of the situation can be gauged from the fact that American commando units have been trained to seize and disable nuclear or radioactive bombs.


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President Obama hosts Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) to discuss nuclear threats

The nuclear threat is a major worry for world leaders and US President Barack Obama is hosting Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) to discuss these threats. This has become more pronounced after the recent terror attacks in Brussels because, according to Belgian media, two of the suicide bombers in the attacks had in their possession video footage of a senior official at a Flanders nuclear waste facility.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 31 March 2016.

World leaders are meeting in Washington to discuss how to prevent terrorists getting hold of radioactive material and it is expected that the UK would play a leading role in protecting nuclear facilities from cyberattack. The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) that is being hosted by President Barack Obama, will see heads of government consider what their response to such a scenario would be.
It is understood that the UK and the United States will hold a joint exercise next year to prepare for any online attack against nuclear power plants and waste storage facilities.
Moreover, Prime Minister David Cameron is to offer British expertise to other countries to protect their own civil nuclear installations because there are apprehensions that Islamic State could attempt to create a dirty bomb. While a UK Government source has indicated that there was no "credible evidence" of terrorists targeting British facilities but, the joint exercise with the US would ensure that both governments and their civil nuclear industries were prepared for any eventuality and could rectify any potential weaknesses.
Incidentally, this summit will be the fourth and final NSS, following on from the last meeting at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2014. The gatherings are from a personal initiative of President Obama, with the International Atomic Energy Agency taking forward the work on nuclear security.


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While claiming responsibility for the Brussels airport terminal and Metro station attacks in which 34 people died and many more were injured, ISIS has threatened to hit the UK 'harder and more bitter'. As a result, Britain has vamped up security with armed officers taking to the streets near major landmarks, train stations and airports.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 March 2016.

Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of the government's emergency COBRA committee, and Britain's official terrorist threat level stands at 'severe' - this is the second-highest level on a five-point scale and means an attack is highly likely.
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This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 December 2015.

It seems he had necessary permission that he had obtained online from US authorities, hence this actions is difficult to understand. He is the latest British Muslim to have reported being suddenly barred from getting on a transatlantic flight in spite of being in possession of authorization by US authorities online.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to examine the case once it was raised by Stella Creasy, the MP concerned.
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This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 July 2015.

Defense Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to make a case for allowing RAF bombers to attack Islamic State targets while insisting that no military action will be taken without a vote in the Commons.
It may be recalled that the Commons had last year given the go-ahead to bombing of militant positions in Iraq last year. However, at the time, MPs were not asked to approve wider action. At that time the situation was different because it was the chemical weapon attack by Syrian president Bashar al Assad that had sparked the previous proposal for airstrikes.
Prime Minister David Cameron is of the opinion that there is a need to crush the ISIL in both Iraq and Syria. There should be a 'full spectrum' response which would mean focusing not just one particular area where the ISIS are, but looking at a whole range of areas and how they are operating.
The main objective is to tackle the growing cut of the ISIS and blunt their cutting edge. The ISIS is an evil that must be eradicated.
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It seems he was working on a sensitive report regarding concrete evidence about the direct involvement of Russia in the separatist movement in Ukraine that had erupted last year.
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