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Will ISIS Strike America's Achilles Heel

Will ISIS Strike America's Achilles Heel

Will ISIS Strike America’s Achilles Heel?

C. Davis by C. Davis
October 3, 2014
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According to the indispensable government watchdog group Judicial Watch, the U.S. government has evidence that the jihadist Islamic State (IS) is present in Juarez, Mexico – across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. 

Worse yet, the Texas Department of Public Safety believes there is evidence that IS plans an imminent attack in this country. In light of the latest murderous attack by this organization against an American journalist, Steven Sotloff, among other atrocities, such threats must be taken with the utmost seriousness.

Among the targets national security professionals fear may now be in the jihadis’ crosshairs is America’s exceedingly vulnerable electric grid. A panel discussion being held at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday afternoon will show how a spate of recent attacks involving sabotage and destruction of property at various electric substations here and elsewhere could be leading indicators of the next 9/11 – one potentially vastly more destructive than the original which occurred thirteen years ago next week.

One of the experts participating in the event organized by the Secure the Grid Coalition (www.SecuretheGrid.com), Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, has warned that the sort of collusion that has been taking place between jihadist groups like the Islamic State and Latin American drug cartels could allow such a scenario to be actualized. After all, last October, the Knights Templar narco-traffickers blacked out the grid of the Mexican state of Michoacan to murder law enforcement personnel and others. And last June, a substation serving the border and city of Nogales, Arizona was nearly destroyed by an improvised explosive device.

Dr. Pry and two other nationally renowned experts on the grid vulnerability issue – former Defense Department official and author F. Michael Maloof and former Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Amb. Henry F. Cooper – will discuss the various naturally occurring and man-induced phenomena that threaten our bulk power distribution system and, with it, all the other critical infrastructures that depend upon the grid to supply the necessities of life in 21st-century America.

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Of particular concern is the prospect that, in the event attacks are mounted successfully against a handful of critical U.S. facilities operating high voltage transformers, widespread and protracted blackouts could occur across the United States. By one official estimate, should the power go out and stay out for over a year, nine out of ten Americans would likely perish.

Such a horrifying prospect has moved some in Hollywood to lend their celebrity and skills to raising public awareness about the need to make the electric grid more resilient. A leader in that effort is Kelly Carlson, an accomplished Hollywood actor who has been active on national and maritime security issues and serves as member of the Secure the Grid Coalition. She will be participating in the panel discussion via Skype and will present several videos that will begin rolling out nationally this week.

The timing of this discussion not only responds to the growing evidence of our vulnerability to a truly existential threat. It also anticipates deliberations in the Congress later this month on legislation sponsored by Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona and Pete Sessions of Texas and strongly supported by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul. Known as the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, this measure would require the Department of Homeland Security to make a focus for a new “National Planning Scenario” a particularly destructive means of attacking the electric grid: a high-altitude nuclear detonation unleashing electromagnetic pulse (EMP) over large areas.

Dr. Cooper will draw upon his experience overseeing the sorts of techniques that the Pentagon has used for more than fifty years to protect its critical assets (principally the nuclear deterrent forces, missile defenses and associated command and control) to illuminate measures that could be used cost-effectively and reasonably quickly to secure the grid against EMP and other perils.

The death and destruction now being meted out routinely by the Islamic State and assorted other shariah-adherent terrorists calls to mind one of the lessons drawn by the 9/11 Commission about the murderous suicidal aircraft hijackings of that black day thirteen years ago: The Commissioners described our unpreparedness for that act of jihad as “a failure of imagination.” We dare not indulge in such a failure again – especially in the face of mounting evidence that today’s terrorists have the imagination, the ability, and the desire to take down our grid.

This article was first published on http://www.breitbart.com/

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  1. TARGET says:
    9 years ago

    so what can the average every day joe do to stop this from happening

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  2. Canadian says:
    9 years ago

    Arm yourselves and your loved ones. You live in a free country, and are allowed to do so. Not all of us are so lucky…

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