countries to be able to protect that version of islam that indigenous traditional islam from. it being pushed out by more radical versions of islam because obviously i don't know whether you would agree with me on all but i think saudi version of islam is not that attractive i mean it's not about its spiritual value but they have the money and they love that one model so i would love not like to speak about very specific cases but would like to speak about general features let me tell you that we have or i see in two thousand and five december in. an extraordinary summit we have. agreed the whole muslim or all my agreed through fifty seven heads of states agreed on. on considering eight megs hips which is force in the mess ups and two she mishaps and another two predominant must have been in the hole with eight of them equal so legally speaking we have a unanimity on the equal in this the behavior of certain schools of thought which. might be present in one school of thought cannot be considered as superior to the us this is was what we do secondly in the organization there is

islamic state is strong because of the civil war in syria. they have gained control of large parts of the country in the east towards the iraqi and the turkish border so it's a huge problem. it's a mixture of various influences of wrong policy making and government in iraq because the maliki government has miserably failed in integrating groups and tribes within iraq. >> how much support is there in the region for the u.s. and its military intervention? >> well, i think most countries are very happy. i think even iran will be very satisfied by this american strike against the islamic state and definitely the gulf states are also very happy because jordan and saudi arabia in particular are very worried that the onslaught of the islamic state movement might even push towards jordan and saudi arabia. there's quite a contradiction. the governments in those two mentioned countries are very much against the islamic state but very rich people in the gulf, they like to fund this organization because it's fighting the shiites because it's weakening ir

to moscow as far as i understand the concept of the people of islam the kony community of islam essential to qur'an but when you look at what is happening across the middle east any see muslims killing muslims more than followers of any other religion. it's really difficult to understand what is actually meant by by the and whether there is indeed unity among muslims is there anything more to this concept than just a religious matter for all mommies belonging to the same community this is a feeling that every muslim. experience when you hear the call to prayer you feel that you will belong to the same but politically today what we are going through is a special case that this extremists these violent groups there are groups who are using. and certain petitions of wrong into petitions. by misquoting the koran and other religious dogmas for their political agendas this one i received we say that if you have developed social you call them equally well developed society when you have a democratic rule when you have access to political activities programs powers parties associations but this i

assessing a threat from the islamic state group. the obamacare white house reacts to the pentagon's take that it's worse than al qaeda before 9/11. >>> russia moves convoy trucks into eastern ukraine without permission. moscow insists the trucks are carrying aid, kyiv is not so sure and calls it an invasion. >>> in ferguson trying to get back to life as usual. >>> plus app developers want to help drivers find parking but there's a catch. prompting cities to put on the break. >>> and the fate of wild horses in wyoming. there are new allegations the federal government is now causing more harm than good. we begin this hour in washington where leaders weighing the threat of the islamic state group and how far the u.s. military should go to stop it. the group is responsible for the grizzly murder of american journalist james foley. in less than a year fighters have taken huge chunks of iraq and syria by force, trying to establish their own country. and warnings by the pentagon, over the strength of the islamic state, and the president's

war flames have recently attacked islamic state fighters in islamic iraq.ays all efforts must be coordinated by the syrian government. >> translator: syria is ready to couldn't and coordinate on regional and international levels to fight terrorism to implement the resolution of the u.n. security council. in the framework of respecting the sovereignty and the independence of syria. taken in to consideration that the syrian government is representing syrian is off at this. any effort to combat terrorism should be coordinated with the syrian government. >> the islamic state group has been fighting not only syrian government force buzz rebel groupings who are opposed to president assad. the islamic state controls parts of syria, including the cities of raqqa and it says it controls the whole of raqqa province. the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma. he says the u.s. felt en tight toll get involved partly because of the recent killing of the journalist james foalism but he adds the president must be clear about what he i

for the islamic state. and they have the reports, some still need to be verified. the higher level of brutality than exercised in the minority areas in the past few weeks. at the beginning they went and they controlled these areas, then they pushed the christians out who were given three choices either convert to islam, pay tax or be killed. in the case of the yzaidis they were even more brutal. they were not given the options of paying taxes. they identify and they killed a number of them. >> president obama's humanitarian campaign a welcome development for the yzaidis. >>> afghanistan's rifle presidential candidate agreed to an initial unity government deal. auditors are rechecking votes from june's run off to see who will be president. they accuse each other of committing fraud. the united states needs the issue resolved so the security deal can be signed by the end of the year. >>> after a week of fighting with syrian levels the battle for the border town is the worst spill over from syria's three-year

these are bodies of islamic state fighters, and islamic state propaganda shows them kicking heads ofdiers and pictures too gruesome to air. they have a level of uncertainty but surely a much bloody future and calling for the assad regime are between the forces of the islamic state group, al jazeera. >> we will join northern lebanon and for the region it's incredibly important and also significant about what's going on in syria because it can impact in any direction, that is a real worry for any of the authorities and governments in the region. >> reporter: yes, there is a sinking realization, realization thinking that the world cannot actually fight the is group in iraq if they don't fight them in syria. the presence are connected and it's going to be a factor if the group is not attacked inside syria as well. the trick is how do you fight inside syria. for a while the west and many regional countries were supporting the opposition groups inside syria to defeat president assad and now the government will hoping it will change and the world will have to operate in order to defeat them

courtney kealy has more on how islamic state group is recruiting members. >> reporter: the islamic state's recent recruit. videos are produced and aimed at muslim men in the west. >> oh, my goodness, living in the west, i know how you are depressed. the cure is you have disobedience. >> reporter: the group is composed of iraqis and syrians, an estimated 6,000 syrians joined. the islamic state has routes with al qaeda in iraq, and the original leader. nicknamed the sheikh of the slaughterers, he is thought to have personally beheaded western captures. the group has been rejected by al qaeda, but has met as te sized with ferocity into a region too familiar with violence. it published mass executions and the beheading of james foley. >> this is a capable group in terms of its propagation effort. the video will play into the narrative. it's a group that wanted to show it's paying continuation. >> in a recent issue. alivant was featured on page 22. >> they are sophisticated. what i.s.i.s. did is take the words of my co-author and use it to present to their followers "look, the western analysts

john esposito is one of the leading voices on islam and understanding islam and the world. is a university professor at georgetown, the founding director of the center for muslim-christian understanding and the former head of the middle east studies association and many other organizations. he has a list 45 hooks, translated into 37 languages including weager. ahamid is a fellow at the brookings institution is a former research person and has been in the research field and will help us with that perspective. he has a new book out entitled " temptations of power." this book is one of the reasons we invited him. if you follow him on twitter, you quickly realize that his twitter account is one of the few dozen most important in the region for understanding what is going on. from last night, there are several solutions for fixing syria. error --quite a stream they are and it's good to follow him. michelle dunn is a senior associate at the carnegie endowment. she is the founding director of the hariri center and a former specialist on middle east affairs at the u.s. state depart

hit islamic state militants. the u.s. is going to arm the iraqi kurds. but this is still a targeted mission says the pentagon. by there gripped immediacy of the crisis. we want to provide immediate relief for those that are suffering. >> the militants are well organized and well equipped. some of it is ironically american. which is why the kurds now say that they need u.s. military aid to defend themselves. this will help us to match that. ,f this had been done in syria it would not be what we are seeing in iraq. controlic fighters now rod swaths of northern iraq. then they move south to towns and are advancing east towards kurdish areas. today, islamic fighters reportedly seized the town. destroy then to iraqi christians and the ancient communities stranded on the barren slopes. but the biggest risk is the path that would flood the whole regions. and taking the kurdish capital, a key ally in u.s. security operations and the biggest danger of all is that they could claim control of the country's capital. but at t

american-made vehicles commandeered by the islamic state. the road lined by twisted metal and charred fields. the air strikes cleared the way for kurdish force and iraqish troops to retake the dam. it was a small number of special forces fighting under kurdish command. unprecedented cooperation. leaving the mosul dam. these men ignored the 5,000 troops said they alone were the reason it was retaken. >> translation: we liberated it all. nobody else came with us. >> on the dam weary kurdish fighters had not stepped for days. this is like no conflict they have ever seen. >> translation: when we entered this we expected conflict and war. this is completely different. in a conventional war you go the frontline and fight accordingly. this is different. they have to respect for families, homes or children. they fight like terrorists, booby trapping houses and roads without caring for civilian life. >> reporter: iraqi explosive experts diffused more than 150 bombs. although the dam is taken, the fighting is not over. fighting continues west of mere.

my version of islam is as valid as osama bin laden's version of islam. i would love to sit here and say that his version is incorrect and mine is right except that that's not true. we are both right and we are both wrong. you have to christian abortion bomber. his version of christianity is as correct as desmond tutu. they are both right and they are both wrong. so, if you have muslims who say democracy is antithetical to islam they are right. if you have muslim muslims thaty democracy is absolutely compatible with islam, they are right. so, stop saying islam is this word that, christianity is this or that. there is no such thing as this or that it's what all individuals say it is. >> host: this is the dedication for my wife jessica and the entire clan whose love and acceptance have taught me more about jesus and all of my years of research and study. >> guest: anybody that saw the fox news interview knows that my wife is a christian as is my mother. by the way i am the one that converted my mother to christianity. and she's still a very devout christian

islam is respected.ry religion is respected in this country, and we should be thanking the government forallowing us to be here and exercise our freedom. they should not follow those who are calling them to go and kill their brothers in syria, in iraq, in different parts of the world and calling themselves islamic. when a muslim kill a muslim, you have no right as muslim to kill even -- i don't know -- an insect. killing a human being is like killing humanity, that's what islam stands for. this group should be held responsible and stop this, because it's tarnishing the community of islam, it's having a large impact on the islam communities. islam is a message of peace, of kindness to all and not killing innocent human beings. and i have a book that will be out next week. and i hope people will read it. and this will give me the opportunity to talk about what is journalism and looking for the truth and seeking the reality. >> unfortunately we're going to have to leave it. thank you so much for being it on

these are the bodies of islamic state fighters. men were shape kicking heads of shoulders, pictures too gruesome to air. syria entered another level of uncertainty, but surely a bloodier future. syrian rebels calling for international support against the bashar al-assad regime are squeezed between government forces and the islamic state group. >> the u.s. says an rick yoi government if it is to succeed needs to unite all sanctions. they have welcomed haider al-abadi, who is reaching out to sunnis as he forms a new government. let's get more from the kurdish north of the country, looking ahead, we are expecting the prime minister designate to address the press core and his interview, or his statement live on iraqi television. he has a lot to discussion beside forming a government. >> well, he does, but what we are looking for is some sign as to how close he is to form the government. we have spoken to political leaders. they believe whilst he is under pressure to come up with the new government in less than two weeks, they are not t

by islamic law.ran says, quote, and fight with them until there is no persecution and religion should be only for allah. >> guest: that is not a goal of islam. this notion of --údñq whole world has to be under islam, and that verse in the koran is a historically contextual verse. what is important to understand is for the latter half of the prophet's life he was at war with the pagan tribes of arabia. secondly, also important to understand that as a faith, that muslims believe that their message should be viewed by all people, all faiths believe this, but the notion that islam is a religion that is spread by the sword is actually historically incorrect. indeed, for the first 150, 200 years of islam, not only was conversion not mandatory or forced upon people, it was discouraged because there were financial benefits of conversion that created a situation-the first islamic empire which ruled not 750a.d., actually made it very difficult for people to convert to islam because you had to pay fewer taxes i

it's certainly not all of islam. but you got to pay attention to what they say and what they say motivates them and what they want to do. and these are very dangerous people. >> well, i agree with you. let me go back to 2011, cia director john brennan. he talks about this caliphate and how he says the idea of an islamic caliphate's absurd, a feckless delusion that's never going to happen. i want to get your reaction to what he said. this is all prior to isis in syria and iraq. >> our strategy is also shaped by a deeper understanding of al qaeda's goals, strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade. i'm not talking about al qaeda's grand dlpds iose vision of global domination through a violent islamic caliphate. that vision is absurd and we're not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. we are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are. >> i actually believe radical islamists th

islam, pay a tax or be killed. it's forced tens of thousands of minorities including christians to flee. >> its grotesque targeted signs of violence show all the warning signs of genocide. >> it's fighters are armed with american weapons abandoned by retreating iraqi forbes and flush with millions in cash from looted iraqi banks. >> given advances that i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l. has made i think their accounts have grown substantially above any other group. >> fighters are trying to carve out islamist state, forcing executions to enforce islamic law. the leader has boldly declared himself the leader for all islam. >> have prepared themselves well for the day we will fight you. >> he's been using slick social media campaigns to recruit foreign fighters. >> i'm in the front line. >> reporter: including hundreds of westerners. >> these are quite battle-hardened veterans who have real commitments to jihadist cause. >> those fighters have captured.much of iraq and syria but they don't want to stop here. they want to control a

nothing about the islamic state state is islamic.is not something i believe in personally, very concerning to us. but the question is, i don't have the solution. what do we do with a group like i.s.i.s? people are talking military intervention. how do we target this group, how do we eradicate them? we watched what we've done, in the middle east, i think i.s.i.s. is a product of some of the you know unfortunate maybe mistakes or mishaps of what military intervention can do is sometimes breed worst groups than the groups we went in to target same place. >> linda sarsur, good to have you on the program. >> thank you very much. >> this is another peaceful night in ferguson, missouri, there is hope the calm will prevail. preparations are made for michael brown's funeral, being held on monday. sparking a week of protests and unrest. the contradictory accounts of what happened when michael brown was shot, have prompted police to aware cameras. randall pinkston has the report. >> reporter: this video shows the scene of the shooting after mic

america considers expanding operations against islamic state militants. is it time to take them on in syria? >> they're beyond just a terrorist group. they marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowl es. this is beyond anything we've seen. >>> after the kremlin called intolerable delays on the boarder in ukraine. >>> five weeks after the downs of mh 17, malaysia brings home its victims. >>> and the vacuum with too much suction power. why authorities are pulling the plu plug. >>> hello. thanks for joining us. the united states warned the threat from islamic state militants is the most dangerous it's seen in years. efforts to defeat them will need to extend to syria, the heart of the base. chuck hagueel has described it imminent and beyond anything we've seen. the u.s. army has said efforts to defeat the group would have to extend into syria describing the border between the two as essentially non existent. >> how should america and allies tack ale the islamic state? during recent months, militants have been gaining ground in s

slavery." >> the islamic state has now killed an american. does this take the battle against the islamic state to an entirely new level? >> at the very least, it certainly does add a new quality to the debate about the islamic state. until now, there has been discussion in the u.s. about whether the islamic state is a direct threat to the united states, or only an indirect one to the kind of chaos that can stoke in the middle east. now there is a dramatic verification of that threat. just another -- for critics of barack obama, is just another reason why he should ramp up airstrikes. john mccain repeating that today. but it should be added that john mccain was making the same arguments yesterday, before the incident. >> you mentioned air strikes, but that is the problem. how can the i.s. be defeated if the u.s. is unwilling to go through with ground troops? what can it really accomplish? >> the point is that barack obama has never said that it is his objective to destroy the islamic state. rather, he repeatedly says that the united states can

islamic state group wants them eliminated. just last week tens of thousands of minority yazidis were strand he on sinjar mountain after running from islamic state fighters. thousands of others have been led down the mountain by kurdish troops often on foot with very little food and water. >> i came from the mountain by my foot. i'm walk, from sinjar mountain to syria p walking. just we have the bottle of water. >> over the weekend there were reports that some of the islamic state's victims were buried alive. until this crisis many people had not learned about the yazidis. our roxana saberi got to know some of them by reporting from northern iraq last year. >> many became trapped in the sinjar mountains with no food or water. many are heading 200 mild to the southeast to their holy city of lalish. all yazidis are expected to make the pilgrimage to this ain yent tomb once in their life. they believe the man who started their faith dated back to adam. babachbesh is the guardian of the temple. the holes in this rock represent the

a culture within the islamic community what we have is when we see the growth of islam across europe within that culture the negative things are coming with it and it is change in the whole area a change in the rules is changing laws changing the food a lot of things are changing there are so different. issues that people need to be express a lot people are fearful you see the you talk a lot people are worried and they would be worried if when we look to islamic leaders such as when we saw different islamic leaders the iranian president say in the islamic europe freedom through the woman's womb is that this is not things that we are sane we can just go online and you can listen to even shelly malik in this country he was elected who is the second in charge of gordon brown in a speech he says in two thousand and one we had one muslim m.p. in two thousand. and two thousand and five with six of them in peace and six thousand. he says within twenty years every m.p. in this country will be muslim and in between saying each thing he says inshallah which is our will in so it certainly is wi

and new islamic nation.e say baghdadi is more feared and more powerful than osama bashar al-assad ever was. >> he found his moment i think when syria opened up. he rebuilt and regrouped and he obviously is extremely calculating, i think, he has both the -- not only the vision, but the political leadership. >> reporter: and he has the money. reportedly raking in $12 million a month funding his organization through extortion and robbery. morgan radford. al jazeera, new york. >> the former ambassador to iraq, christopher hill talked about the kind of threat these fighters formed to the entire region. >> what we have found is that i.s.i.s. continues the confound the experts in that it's proven to be a very effective fighting force and even there are signs it was able to push back the peshmerga a few days. that seems to be changing, u.s. air forces have been decisive in that regard but peshmerga are very well trained highly disciplined and well led force and i think as they begin to get more weapons and that appe

the islamic state group grew in power. turkey is now struggling to contain its massive border. >> mark kimmet, served as assistant secretary of state for political military affairs in the george w. bush administration. general, welcome. >> sure. >> what do you make, do you agree that the internet and social media is important and how important is it to recruiting these people? >> well, it's not just important, it's vital. i think jihadis recognize that propaganda and communications is a weapon and that the internet and media is a battlefield. and they're trying to win that battlefield. they use it not only to promote their ideology, they not only use it to expose what they believe is hypocrisy in the gulf region but they use it as a very, very effective recruiting tool by putting out these images and by putting out these videos that attract young dispossessed males that are looking for apurpose in life. >> what countries are hot spots for this recruitment? >> i think those areas where the fighting is going on particularly

they are not an islamic state.y are an unjust state in iraq and syria. >> the islamic state group already controls large areas in the east of syria all the way to the iraqi border. they have been moving freely between the two countries. syrian rebels from the islamic front are struggling to hold on to the aleppo countryside. losing this region means losing a main supply line from turkey. for years, the syrian opposition has appealed for military assistance from the international community. on saturday, they renewed that appeal and called for direct military action. >> i urge the u.n. and everyone in the international community who truly believe in freedom, especially the united states of america, to deal with the sir in syria in the same way they have handled the situation in ku kurdistan and iraq. the roots are the same in syria. the enemy is the same. the world should not have double standards. >> in iraq, the u.s. is carrying out airstrikes against the islam staikt grew. the pentagon says its mission is limited

really has no connection to islam, nor humanity. the bigger worry is they may get killed there. >> authorities here at britt tape's intelligence service, say finding those citizens, returns from the fighting in syria and iraq, is now one of their main priorities. and with most european passport holders also having visa free access to the united states, for homeland finding those fighters is also said to be top of their list. said the pentagon violated the law, the nonpartisan governor said today the department of defense probing the law when it failed to give congress 30 days notice before the exchange in the month of may. the d.a.o. also says the transfer violated another olaw barring federal agent from spending more money than congress has allocated. an american doctor and an ebolarker infected with have now been released. they are free of the virus, and pose no health risks. the experience in treating these two has taught u.s. official as great deal about epole la, which in the last six months claimed more than 1300 lives. david,

very large numbers of people have been coming into the islamic states. there are all kinds of numbers. no one knows whether to take things seriously. people say there are 10,000 people in the islamic state in the fighting brigade. some people have higher numbers than that. whatever the numbers might be, there are thousands of foreign fighters. these are the most dedicated and ruthless fighters. >> britain says they are about to identify the man who is standing over james foley. that he is most likely british. >> he is likely british, except that the accent is his accent and not that it was overdone. released whichs is apparently a british-muslim rapper. whatever is happening in the west, for whatever region, -- for whatever reason, the checks can fighters, the european fighters, some of the most brave and dangerous fighters, the people have been saying they can fight anybody with ease, but when they come up against the islamic state fighters, those guys are roofless. syrian army and the free syrian army are trade in a technique of fighting a battle. you

they are not an islamic state.y are an unjust state in iraq and syria. >> the islamic state group already controls large areas in the east of syria, all the way to the iraqi border. they have been moving freely between the two countries. syrian rebels from the islamic front are struggling to hold on to the aleppo country side, losing this region means losing a main supply line from turkey. for years, the syrian opposition has appealed for military assistance from the international community. on saturday, they renewed that appeal and called for direct military, calling for targeted airstrikes, backed up by intensive train and equip programs. in iraq, the u.s. is already caring out airstrikes against the itslamic straight group but the pent pe penned gone says at this mission is limited to defending the kurdish region. a third of iraq is ubldz the control of the islamic state group. the international community has expressed alarm about the growing strengths. but so far, there is no plan to defeat that group. the isla

islamic state, the so-called islamic state has been able to acquire, a, a lot of money from bank robberies, extortion, donations and has been able to acquire a lot of weapons including what the iraqi army abandoned when they left mosul and a lot of other areas. they have rocket launchers and they have tanks including some helicopters. i'm told. >> so mohammed, let's talk more about the religious content of this call that lathe was talking about. if you go into your mother's kitchen and say one country ov over, two countries over, they made this call and i'm going, is that going to say, well, it is a religious call, i'll pray for you son. or are they going to say, sit down. forget it. this is not the caliph. this is not the caliphate. go to work tomorrow. >> this is interesting because something that was mentioned it doesn't matter how the caliph is declared. regardless, it becomes obligatory for everyone to succumb and pledge allegiance. that is not actually true. there is a lot of talk amongst the scholars today about a means towards the end. it is not sufficient just to say the caliphate

islamic state is compassion, justice and also mercy.t happened here is completely against those ethos. and secondly, in terms of what has gone wrong that we find british muslims going to syria, iraq, and other places, the message is very clear from imams and the mosque that whatever is happening in those conflict areas is not jihad. it is a misunderstanding if someone is going from british to take part in iraq and syria and other places and where there is conflict thinking actually they are contributing to the jihad ethos and that's not the case. we all need to work together with intelligence services, police and everyone else to try and work out why is it that young people who are perhaps manipulated by those who are against the government or against other ethos to organize such activities, taking part in conflict areas. >> in that sense, do you feel let down? you have worked tirelessly, haven't you, with your own community. you've pleaded for people not to go to syria, not to go to iraq. but it is still happening. >> it is. and it is

john esposito is one of the leading voices on islam and understanding islam and the world. he is a university professor at georgetown, the founding director of the center for muslim-christian understanding and the former head of the middle east studies association and many other organizations. he has published 45 hooks, translated into 37 languages including uigar. shad ahamid is a fellow at the brookings institution is a former research person and has been in the research field and will help us with that perspective. he has a new book out entitled " temptations of power." this book is one of the reasons we invited him. if you follow him on twitter, you quickly realize that his twitter account is one of the few dozen most important in the region for understanding what is going on. from last night, there are several solutions for fixing syria. he's got quite a string there and it's good to follow him. michelle dunn is a senior associate at the carnegie endowment. she is the founding director of the hariri center and a former specialist on middle east affairs at the u.s. stat

. >> reporter: putting the islamic state group on notice as reports surface the united states is nowreparing to send spy flights over syria. ♪ we begin with breaking news coming out of gaza where there are celebrations in the streets. after 50 days and more than 2000 deaths on both sides there is now hope for peace in the region. both hamas and israel say they have agreed to a long-term ceasefire, andrew similar monday is in gaza. >> the sky behind me has been certainly moved in essence by the iron dome weapon, the israelis use to counter rockets, at least three rockets have been fired and used to intercept them. we have had a lot of military activity intensifying over tuesday. at least half a dozen palestinian deaths. there has been a lot of mortar fire across the border into israel from the palestinian factions, at least 100 rockets fired. now whether this is just part of the patent there has been ten ceasefires so far. there is, in fact, more hope here or not, it would appear there is more hope because it would see that this time there is an agreement to stick to the script. that

more than 6,000 joined the islamic state. the incentives a salary of 450, money for children and for the wives. >> douglas mccain was an aspiring rapper, active on social media he was hinting about what was to com, including posting an image of the islamic state group. the signs were there. >> now to an expert on middle east erp terrorism and director of human rites research at the university of dayton. and joins us from dayton. what makes a young man want to leave the country and move to iraq and syria and join groups like the islamic state. >> a sense of identity, a sense of purpose in one life. a sense of belonging to a community, fellow believers. the ideological pull is enormous, potent. islam, for people who are searching for a purpose in their life, may not have opportunities. this is a potent psychological motivation for them to go abroad if they believe the rel imon calls them to fight. >> a lot of people would say "join the peace core. why join a group that, let's be realistics, is massacring, beheading people every

defeatat will it take to the islamic state now? we're on front lines with iraqi forces who are in the thick of battle. and calling it a miraculous day. his colleagueand infected with ebola are released from hospital and declared free virus. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the u.s. defense secretary the threat posed by the islamic state as beyond anything we have seen. he was speaking as details emerge about the murder of american journalist james foley by militants. we begin with this report from the bbc's international correspondent. hunt is on for the man who murdered james foley. every detail of the gruesome of his killing will be scoured for clues, with the mi-5 and others leading the search. james foley was an experienced front-line reporter. this is some of the footage he shot. he'd worked in libya, iraq and syria. he captured wasn't just the heat of battle, but those humanity as often run through the most hostile of environments. children anden and makeshift bomb shelters. james f

no more islamic extremism because it is not politically correct. the enemy is not islam.it is not all muslims. that is understood. but the enemy is islamic extremism. and while not all terrorists are muslims, that is certainly the case, in recent years, the have seen that most terrorist instances have been conducted by islamic extremists. so we have to understand that. guantanamo bay, gitmo, that was something of that, when obama took office, he made a pledge that he would immediately close down gitmo. that policy was doomed to dismal failure because they are not criminals, they are enemy combatants. it would be a grave mistake to bring the detainees to the u.s. and put them on civilian trial. that was seen when they made if you attempt to do it. -- a few attempts to do it. they are acquitted and they are free. now have terrorist threats in new york and chicago, los angeles, wherever. one of the reasons for gitmo is that their home countries do not want them back. these were terrorists that started off in the war in afghanistan against the soviets and they went through th

since his capture i've learned about islam. i have learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held for th responsible for the sins of others. stephen has no responsibility for the actions of others. i ask you to please release my child. as a mother i ask the justice to be merciful and not punish my son over matters he has no control over. i ask you to use your authority to spare his life and to follow the example set by the prophet mohammed, who protected people of the book. i want what every mother wants to, live to see her children's children. i plead with you to grant me this. >> now, all of this on the day that another american journalist, this one freed, spoke out. curtis was held for 22 months. he arrived in the u.s. yesterday, and now is resting at home with his family. today he thanked those who helped free him. >> in the days following my release on sunday i have learned bit by bit that there have been literally hundreds of people brave, determined, big-hearted people all over the world working for my rele

they sought safety in tent cities there when mosul fell to the islamic state, formerly known as islamic state of iraq and the levant. this week yasr fell then another post of the islamic state. replaced by the group's own. abu and his family left, two days ago he left the camp. >> we heard that the islamic state my come and storm the camp. withdrawal of peshmerga forces i picked up my family and we left. >> heading west this was the only roof over their heads they could find. the kurdish region has always taken pride as being the most safe and prosperous part of iraq. in this area, apartments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. but in the last couple of weeks, this has become the outpost of nowhere else to go. >> for some rakes it has been falling a part for a while. he has been disabled since not getting proper medical care. >> i went to the hospital the doctors say i have to have my legs amputated. i said how will i survive afterwards, they just said we need the cut them off. >> they've moved three times in the last two years. >> translator: we came at 3:00 in the morning the

islam itself. therefore it is an illetting jihad. >> i think most americans have a hard time understanding the recruits, the people who left america to go fight. what don't we know about this group and these recruits? >> i think a lot of attention has been paid on the islamic state, slick online recruitment campaign, their use of twitter and other websites such as justpasted, where they're able to post their videos, to particularly new muslim converts. i would say this is not a new tactic, not innovative, we have seen this before when we think of al qaeda or john walker lind who joined the taliban. i would say that this was able to find individuals who just came to islam. they -- this is an identity struggling. these individuals struggle on the one hand with am i loyal to the west or should i be loyal to islam? if i'm loyal to islam, particularly if you are a recruit and a convert to the faith, should i not go and fight in favor of islam? not only those predisposed to violence but new muslim conver

now fallen to islamic state fighters. at risk are also oil fields which had been protected by iraqi security forces and then the peshmerga. now within territory held by the radical group. mosul a center of power for islamic state fighters is just 60 kilometers from here. the city of erbil is the kurdish capitol, an economic hub. propping up kurdish security forces will be a much longer mission. jane arath, al jazeera, erbil. >> huge population movements in iraq much of it driven by internal sectarian violence. as the group called islamic state moved into iraq this year the situation became suddenly and dramatically worse. over the last two months, the group's fighters have consolidated their gains in iraq's north and pushed into kurdish territory sending christians and other minorities fleeing. close to 200,000 people have been displaced in areas around mosul erbil and kirkuk. former news editor for the baghdad bureau of the new york times. good to see you. >> thank you, good to see you. >> how would you describe the chan