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ISIS are planning a “nuclear holocaust” which will kill hundreds of millions of innocent people, claims veteran German war reporter Jürgen Todenhöfer, 75, in his new book Ten Days in the Islamic State. He spent ten harrowing days living on the ISIS frontline. He is the only journalist given permission to operate as an “embed” with ISIS and live to tell the tale. Todenhöfer has made the stark warning that the West are dramatically underestimating the military might, power and reach of ISIS, and that their plans to launch a “nuclear tsunami” is not just simply scaremongering and hysterical hyperbole. “They are the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life,” he says. “I don’t see anyone who has a real chance to stop them. Only Arabs can stop ISIS. I came back very pessimistic.”
Todenhöfer issues the chilling warning that the Western powers alone cannot defeat ISIS, and adds that the self-styled Caliphate rulers are planning on launching a nuclear holocaust capable of wiping several hundred million people off the face of the earth. Todenhöfer adds that ISIS’ ambitions to possess atomic weapons are very real, and he likened them to a “nuclear tsunami preparing the largest religious cleansing in history.”
Todenhöfer, became a reporter 15 years ago. The former MP in Angela Merkel’s CDU party, who now specializes in war reporting, spent ten blood-chilling days dodging bullets and death threats, and in-between he was guided and chauffeured around by the notorious “Jihadi John” – real name Mohammed Emwazi.
Critics suggest that Todenhöfer was only allowed special access to ISIS because he has earned something of a name for himself as a fierce and outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Todenhöfer’s ten days on the ISIS frontline happened after several months of intense negotiations on Skype with the leadership of the Caliphate, to “hammer out security details.”
However, Todenhöfer insists that it was far from an easy choice to join ISIS on the frontline.
“This project was opposed by my family for seven months. My son ultimately accompanied me – against my will. He meant to protect me. And he filmed there.”
Upon arrival, the father and son’s mobile phones were taken from them by their ISIS hosts, and apart from the briefest contact with his family on the third day from an Internet Cafe, Todenhöfer was completely cut off from the life and people he once knew.
“My family didn’t hear from us for seven days. It was very difficult for my daughters.”
Todenhöfer also revealed that, before he departed, he made his will, in case of the worse case scenario.
“Of course I’d seen the terrible, brutal beheading videos and it was of course after seeing this in the last few months that caused me the greatest concern in my negotiations to ensure how I can avoid this. Anyway, I made my will before I left.
“People there live in shellholes, in barracks, in bombed-out houses. I slept on the floor, if I was lucky on a plastic mattress. I had a suitcase and a backpack, a sleeping bag.”
Now that he has returned, Todenhöfer is more pessimistic about the future of the world than before he left and states that ISIS are far stronger than we believe and control a region far greater in size than the U.K.
“My impressions? That they are much stronger than we here believe. They now control land greater in size than the United Kingdom and are supported by an almost ecstatic enthusiasm the like of which I’ve never encountered before in a war zone.”
Todenhöfer also admits that the beheadings, which so sickened the West, have served ISIS well and they’re growing in strength with each and every day, until a time of ultimate reckoning, which could involve a nuclear holocaust.
“The beheadings have been established as a strategy which they wanted to spread fear and terror among their enemies. This worked well – look at the capture of Mosul taken with less than 400 fighters!
“Every day hundreds of willing fighters from all over the world come.”
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