time under one flag, the potential for operations on a previously unseen level rises exponentially.
Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table. The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilāyah 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 mujāhidīn move it south to Nigeria. 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. The nuke and accompanying mujāhidīn arrive on the shorelines of South America and are transported through the porous borders of Central America before arriving in Mexico and up to the border with the United States. From there it’ s just 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 of their car.
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. And if not a nuke, what about a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive? That’ s easy enough to make. The Islamic State make no secret of the fact they have every intention of attacking America on its home soil and they’ re not going to mince about with two mujāhidīn taking down a dozen casualties if it originates from the Caliphate. They’ ll be looking to do something big, something that would make any past operation look like a squirrel shoot, and the more groups that pledge allegiance the more possible it becomes to pull off something truly epic.
Remember, all of this has happened in less than a year. How more dangerous will be the lines of communication and supply a year on from today? If the West completely failed to spot the emergence of the Islamic State and then the allies who so quickly pledged allegiance to it from around the world, what else of massive significance are they going to miss next?
Let me finish with a quick example of the sheer motivation of the Muslim fighters the West now finds itself up against. The other day I had the opportunity to meet one charismatic fighter from an Arab country. Educated and intelligent, he told me with disgust that some of his blood brothers are serving soldiers in an Arab regime army.“ I talk to them once every few months on the telephone,” he said.“ They are my blood brothers, so I speak to them and advise them in hope that they might change. If they refuse, then inshā’ allāh I will get the chance to kill them all on the battlefield. They fight for a tāghūt regime that loves America while I fight for Allah. Who is the stronger one?”
It was an awe-inspiring and humbling example of how the West can never win this war. Perhaps once there was a chance that an attack inside the West or on Western borders by the Islamic State could be averted through negotiations, but no longer. As the territory of the Islamic State crosses from one border to another like a wildfire that is burning out of control, it’ ll be only a matter of time before the Islamic State reaches the Western world.
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