Usually when a loud-mouthed jihadist insists he’s smuggled anything of consequence into a Western country, we take the claim with a heavy dose of doubt. But ISIS is unlike any other terrorist group the world has ever known. They are a well-funded, heavily armed, and highly trained army with a laser focus on worldwide dominance in the vein of Hitler’s Germany. And when they say they’ve smuggled a “radioactive device” into a European country, we’d best take them at their word.

The news follows the recent claim posted on Twitter by alleged weapons maker, Muslim al-Britani, that ISIS had obtained a “dirty bomb.” The group claims to have gotten hold of uranium after a recent raid on Mosul University.

“O by the way Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found Radioactive [sic] material from Mosul University.”

#ISIS Builds Dirty Bomb – radioactive material from Mosul University http://t.co/ELlMKDAztU #guerardmedia

— Guerard Media (@GuerardMedia) December 9, 2014

Muslim-Al-Britani’s Twitter account is now suspended—big shocker—but a screen shot grabbed by the SITE Intelligence Group, a for-profit Bethesda-based company that tracks the online activity of white supremacist and jihadi organizations, yields this chilling message:

Could it simply be propaganda intended to frighten Europeans? Sure. But even if that’s all it is, it will have achieved its goal: To terrorize. Should we therefore ignore it? Absolutely not. Better safe than sorry, because a reactive stance, which is typically the modus operandi of the Obama Administration, is always fraught with dire consequences.

To their credit, the United States and Iraq reportedly have an agreement to aggressively combat the smuggling of items like those needed to produce dirty bombs. From the State Department:

“There’s always a concern about radiological or radioactive sources,” a State Department official told the Washington Free Beacon at the time.

While the United States, at that time, was “not aware of any cases of these types of material being smuggled out of the country thus far,” ISIL could potentially use these radioactive materials to create a crude bomb, the official said.

“This is the kind of thing where if ISIL got its hands on enough radioactive sources or radioactive sources of a sufficient radioactivity level and they decided to turn it into a bomb and blow it up in a market, that would be a very unpleasant thing,” the official said.

Is it a long shot? Maybe. But, as we know from the rapid metastasizing of ISIS over the last few months, nothing will stop the determined. And with stiff competition from Al Qaeda, who say they are planning a European “Christmas Day Spectacular” of their own involving planes, ISIS’s motivation for glory and an up-close-and-personal meeting with seventy-two virgins is exponentially high.

As we should all be well aware of by now, like our own, citizens of European countries have been traveling to and from the Middle East, cohabiting with ISIS, and bringing their jihadist training back home. It is, therefore, highly conceivable that ISIS could smuggle uranium, a main component for a dirty bomb, into Europe to be used in an attack on a major city. And it’s only a matter of time, given our own porous border and a careless POTUS welcoming illegals in with open arms, that something similar could happen here. Remember, it was just last week that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was forced to admit that the Obama Administration released two terrorists onto U.S. soil. At least ten have reportedly been apprehended attempting to cross our borders. And those are just the ones we’ve caught.

Let’s hope that the “radioactive device” claim is just a ploy, but one that The Powers That Be are taking deadly seriously.