ISIS terrorists pose an
“imminent” threat to the U.S. electric grid with the capacity to
coordinate a devastating assault on our nation’s infrastructure, warned a
leading homeland security and terrorism expert in a radio interview
Sunday.
Dr. Peter Pry, a former CIA officer, is
executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security
and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both congressional
advisory boards. He also served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the
Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, and the House Armed
Services Committee.
“There is an imminent threat from ISIS to the national electric grid and not just to a single U.S. city,” said Pry.
Pry was speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s AM 970 The Answer.
Outlining the threat, Pry recalled a leaked
U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report divulged this past
March that coordinated terrorist attacks on just nine of the nation’s
55,000 electrical power substations could provoke coast-to-coast
blackouts for up to 18 months.
Such an attack would mirror the devastating
impact of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack without the need for any
nuclear device or delivery system.
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The congressional EMP Commission previously
estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, upwards of 90
percent of the U.S. population could possibly die from disease, lack of
food and resources and larger societal breakdown.
Speaking to Klein’s audience, Pry pointed
specifically to the possibility of ISIS immediately hiring Mexican
extremists such as the Knights Templar drug cartel, which last year
successfully utilized guns and Molotov cocktails to attack numerous
Mexican power stations, leaving 11 towns without electricity.
“Now those guys are just across our southern border,” stated Pry.
Pry continued: “That means that ISIS doesn’t
have to actually come to the United States on those U.S. passports. You
know, Obama is always talking about how he’s got a phone. Well, ISIS has
got a telephone, too. All they’ve got to do is contact the Knights
Templar, wire these guys $10 million, I mean they’ll do anything for
money. And say, ‘Hey, go across that open U.S. border and take out the
electric grid in Arizona, or New Mexico, or Minnesota or New York. Or
the entire nation.’”
Pry surmised such an attack on the U.S. power grid “wouldn’t be difficult for them.”
“There are … open-source computer models
where you can figure out which are those nine critical transformer
substations where if attacked would take down the whole national power
grid,” he said.
“So something like that could be arranged. It could happen tomorrow. It could happen next week.”
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