but he carried it out as a jihadist in a jihadist manner, a decapitation which is an islamic way. but this guy was a ticking time bomb and i'm positive in saying this. if he didn't carry out this attack now at this point he would have done it in the future. there are tens of thousands of others like him lurking outside in the united states who haven't done this but are jihadists and are just waiting to do it. and that's the problem. because as you know as a judge, you need a criminal predicate in order to charge somebody. just because they express their support for jihad and willingness to kill you can't charge them and you can't open up an investigation. >> of course not. but the intent is the circumstances surrounding the crime both before and after that give us some sense of what the individual was thinking. and you know, i think for the american people, they're wondering if, you know, if this is the carrying out of a jihaddy, a lone wolf carrying out his own jihad or if this is something bigger than that. make so mistake, steve, this guy is in prison and actually tried to esca

the airtight jihadist -- the airtight coalition is hitting jihadists hard in syria.or the very first time since the crisis began over three years ago, the u.s. has decided to intervene militarily with airstrikes. but critics say the show of force is too late. i year ago -- a year ago when chemical weapons were being used against the citizens, barack obama had a golden opportunity to hit bashar assad where it hurts. al qaeda and other affiliated groups were not as powerful. obama missed a crucial opportunity and the situation now is incredibly, located. -- incredibly complicated. it is important to note that france for now is just participating in airstrikes. there is debate whether to extend that to syria as well. it is important to be clear here. what we are talking about is a war and it will cost a lot of human lives and arab nations participating in this collation is essential. >> and focusing on the fact that there are five other nations for dissipating. but that is right bahrain -- >> that is right, bahrain jordan, saudi arabia, qatar and the united arab emirate

david cameron urging airstrikes against islamic state jihadist. he says it is in the national and international interest. he calls them psychopathic terrorists. three days of mourning. french flags at half mast for the man kidnapped and beheaded by extremists. muslim demonstrates against the barbarism of the islamic state group. the world needs to help the u.s. in the fight against ebola. there's a gap between what is needed and what is being given. thank you for staying with us. david cameron is urging britain to carry out airstrikes on his stomach state jihadist in iraq. he is leading a debate in a packed house of commons. he called the extremists psychopathic terrorist and a threat to security. he said they will be justified on the request of the iraqi prime minister. the debate is expected to continue. >> is there a threat to the british people? the answer is yes. isil has murdered one hostage and is threatening the lives of two more. the first isil acts in europe have taken place with the attack on the jewish museum in brussels. security serv

they are running from jihadist to have taken dozens of villages near the border.urkish soup -- security forces brought out water cannons not against the refugees, but to break up a protest against the kurds. >> syrian refugees watch fearfully as fighters of the islamic state organization raise their flag over their village. they bring food for their relatives who stayed behind to guard the cattle. turkish soldiers agree to pass it on across the border. >> the organization of the islamic state is in our village. no one can go there to see what is going on. our animals are caught between the border fence and there. many have died of hunger and thirst. >> turkish soldiers are keeping a close eye on the violence next door. jihadist fighters are attacking kurdish villages just a few kilometers away. >> no one can guarantee. >> no one can guarantee? >> yes. >> those who made it safely into turkey tell us that the lives they left behind are ruined. >> became inside our village and killed those who fight -- tried to fight back. they were destroying everything. i don't kno

jihadist. >> germans have already been used as suicide bombers in iraq and syria. now talked our is one of the countries reported to be financing and aiding the islamic state -- call foqatar. pecks the german government says around 400 german jihadist have gone to fight for the islamic state. authorities suspect he carried out this a talk -- attack in southern baghdad two months ago. they say more than 50 people died in the bombing. the fear is they could return to launch attacks on home soil. they have expressed concerns that funding is coming from arab states like qatar. >> what is happening in iraq and syria is extremism, and such organizations are partly financed from abroad. qatar has ever supported and will never support terrorist organizations. >> qatar was one of nearly 30 countries pledging support for the campaign in paris on monday. as recently as last month, the german minister singled out qatar for funneling money to the terrorists. german chancellor said she discussed the claims with ee mere. >> the emea are -- the emir assured me it is a security iss

chaos ensues, and radical jihadists emerge. the pattern has been repeated time and time again, and yet what we have here is a failure to understand, a failure to reflect on the outcome of our involvement in arab civil wars. they say nature abhors a vacuum. radical jihadists have again and again filled the chaotic vacuum of the middle east. secular dictators, despots who frankly do terrorize their own people, are replaced by radical jihadists who seek terror not only at home but abroad. intervention when both choices are bad is a mistake. intervention when both sides are evil is a mistake. intervention that destabilizes the middle east is a mistake. and yet, here we are again, wading into a civil war. i warned a year ago that involving us in syria's civil war was a mistake, that the inescapable irony is that someday the arms we supply would be used against us or israel. that day's now. isis has grabbed up from the u.s., from the saudis, from the qataris weapons by the truckload, and we are now forced to fight against our own wea

some are fighting with the jihadists abroad.ill they bring their terror training back to the united states? i'll ask the chairman of the house homeland security committee, congressman mike

we'll ask a former jihadist to sort it all out for us. >>> hello, i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." isis isn't the only adversary in president obama's sights today. >> it is a brazen assault. a sovereign and independent european nation. it challenges that most basic of principles of our national system. that borders cannot be redrawn at the barrel of a gun. that nations have the right to determine their own future. >> the president was attacking russia's de facto war on ukraine on russia's own doorstep. as you may have seen live here on cnn, the president delivered a fervent defense of western ideals in nato member state estonia. which itself fears military adventurism by its neighbor to the east. mr. obama is on his way to a nato summit in wales where ukraine will top the agenda. we've learned from kiev that u.s. and other friendly troops are planning to hold ten days of military exercises in ukraine. and that's set to begin on september 16th. in the meantime, in estonia, president obama had even tougher words, much tougher words, for the jihadi butchers kn

french fighter jets strike targets inside iraq for the second time after strikes in syria killed 14 jihadists and five civilians. they are targeting oil refineries in east of the country. sierra leone widens its efforts in the fight against ebola. one point 2 million people are quarantined as the death toll from the epidemic nears 3000 according to the world health organization -- 1.2 million people are quarantined as the death toll from the epidemic nears 3000 according to the world health organization. french flags are to fly at half mast on friday, saturday, and sunday, according to a french government spokesman, france morning the hostage who was beheaded in algeria by the group that had been holding him since sunday. herve gourdel was the 55-year-old father of two, from nice killed in a manner that was cruel and cowardly, according to the french president, who spoke to the united nations yesterday just after the group holding him released video on the internet making clear that he had been decapitated. even now, the french president this -- is chairing a special security meeting at the p

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in place tighter measures to make it more difficult for jihadists to leave the country.he united states is stepping up its role in the fight against the islamic state organization. president barack obama's request for correctional -- congressional backing to fight armed rebels in syria is halfway home, easily approved by the republican-controlled house. that legislation must now be passed by the senate, but that does look to happen. some politicians fear weapons could end up in the hands of the enemy. >> syria and iraq, two war-torn countries where the islamic state's organizations operate beginning by fighting syrian president bashar al-assad's troops. over the course of the uprising, divisions grew between rebel factions and the jihadists on the ground. the west witnessed their rise and refrain from harming the more moderate syrian rebels, but washington has decided to change strategy. on wednesday, the u.s. house of representatives approved president's plan to arm and train moderate syrian rebels to fight the islamic state organization. >> this is the best of the bad

a personal friend from his day as a jihadist.laukky h awlaki has been inspiring terrorist attacks around the world. london, a double decker bus, leaving 5 52 dead. >> threat level to the uk has been raised to critical. >> one to blow up planes flying to the united states, the other to blow up buildings in canada. and in 2008, a deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in yemen. and storm says he can provide the cia something no one else can. access to awlaki, himself. he tells us the cia sent him on this dangerous spy mission. october 2008. a month after the embassy attack. to see awlaki. now hiding in a remote part of yemen. >> he's worried about security but he's also worried about people following me. >> the mission, give awlaki a laptop, solar panels, night vision goggles he'd requested. some secretly implanted with spy software. then storm says he gives awlaki one more cia gift. $5,000. cash. >> he looked at me and he tapped his chest pocket where the $5,000 were, and he said, can we buy bullets and weapons? i said, yeah, of course

jihadist militants from the islamic state group closed in on a key town on the border of syria and turkey, despite continuing airstrikes on the international coalition. and a major flood hits some 60 cities across the south of france, including the historic town of montpellier. ♪ also coming up this hour, turning 50. we will take a closer look at the argentinian comic and her creator. also, sports coming up. but first for you, tens of thousands of protesters are in hong kong. they have now upped their demand, saying they want beijing to answer their calls for democratic reform before a deadline tomorrow, china's national day. leaders of the occupy central movements are they want the current executive leadership of hong kong to step down. anger over beijing moving to vet new candidates is what kicked off the protest in the first place. paul james is our correspondent. tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of the founding of communist party rule in china basically china's national holiday. protesters have made it clear they are not going anywhere. what is the response of beijing likely to be

tonight, islamic state jihadists provided a video nline, a gruesome, an -- a beheading by a british jihadist. >> i'm back because of the arrogance toward the islamic state. >> president obama made no immediate comment but the white house was quick to condemn the killing. this is the second u.s. hostage to be murdered by i.s. in syria in two weeks. >> if the video is genuine, we're sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another life of an american innocent citizen. >> the islamic state militants have been holding a number of western hostages in syria. several european nationals were released. reportedly in exchange for huge ransom payments. within a week, i.s. threatened to kill him if u.s. air strikes continued. they did. but his mother made this desperate last-minute appeal, now seems in vain. >> he traveled to the middle east to coverage the suffering of muslims at the hand of tyrants. he's a loyal and generous son, rother and grandson. he's always trying to help the weak. we have not seen him for over a ear and we miss him very much. >> it follows the beheading of this u.s. journa

it's covered with jihadist propaganda including actual photos of beheadings. who does that?aden. you can read in his own words all of his progressive radicalization which clearly took place over the past year or six months in particular, brooke. >> right. and that's this islamophobe mania is all about. if there are motivations to religiously motivated violence. if you look at the fact he posted on facebook a justification for beheading. if you look at the fact he was fired for telling his co-workers that he was going to kill women if they do not conform to his version of islam. there is nothing racist about asking what motivated this crime and how he could prevent these similar types of crimes from happening in the future. >> how are we ever going to get anywhere if the fbi, the president, everyone talks about how not justice isis or al qae those who home radicalize, some have connections and some have none and those are the hardest to snuff out because they're not communicating online with some central al qaeda operative. so they do it themselves on their computer. if we ca

. >> while sympathy for jihadist groups or support for groups like isis might be on the rise since the country here joined that coalition last week, so it seems has the government cracked down, according to one lawyer of jihadists here in jordan telling us over the past month, at least 15 suspected jihadists have been detained, that's 15 according to one lawyer, errol. >> the government is certainly watching this closely. i'm curious, what has isis done if anything to gain the support of locals in ma'an, it seems as if their grievances are more economically based. >> this has been the history of it, errol. jordan has had a long history of individuals coming from this country joining the ranks of extremist groups like al qaeda, for example, in the past. and it's mostly economic grievances and political grievances, people here opposed to the monarchy who are also driven to join, but you are right, what we heard mostly from people yesterday in the city of ma'an, if you give people jobs, if there's more employment opportunities in their city, less people would be driven to join groups like

he decides to join the jihadists in somalia. >> i had to join them for my religious beliefs. >> reporter: he returns to denmark where he says he gathers military supplies, preparing himself for war. >> i said good-bye to my children and family. >> reporter: then, at the last minute a phone call from somalia. >> he said we have lost the airport. >> in mogadishu? >> in mogadishu, what does that mean? >> he says you can't come, it is too dangerous. >> what is going through your mind? >> so it is a last will that i don't go. i am so deeply disappointed and devastated. i feel betrayed, you know? >> reporter: betrayed by his god, unable to fight for his religion, he says. just as fast as islam had taken hold, doubt and questions enter. >> i sat down in front of the laptop and i type, contradiction. and i'm daring to ask this question, i had to enter -- and i saw plenty of websites talking about contradictions in the koran, it took times to research them. but once i concluded that they were general contradictions, that is when it wiped totally away my faith. >> is that when you stopped being a

unless you have strategy to fight and win against all jihadist. put out a fire here and another break out here. >> cliche is a back a -- whack a mole situation. >> it is clear that the muslim community, the middle eastern community is going to have to take control of this. they are going to have to. >> yeah, number one, they can't fight and number two i don't think that's ever going to happen. >> united states. >> i see turkey, for example, which is a secular muslim country do anything then i will say maybe hope is in the air. james rosen james kerry wait until you see this. miller on the president's speech afternoon the white house fence jumper. those reports after these messages. bad news in email. good news -- fedex has flat rate shipping. it's called fedex one rate. and it's affordable. sounds great. [ cell phone typing ] [ typing continues ] [ whoosh ] [ cell phones buzz, chirp ] and we have to work the weekend. great. more good news -- it's friday! woo! [ male announcer ] ship a pak via fedex express saver® for as low as $7.50. director of n

i have been study violent jihadist for 20 years since the russians invaded in 1994 and i will say i am only aware of two other cases even slightly, and i empicize slightly, like morten storm at all. the first is collins who was an american who converted to islam and became radical and went to fight along the arab jihad and deradicalized when he heard about people he thought understood his faith in egypt were blowing up women and children. he wrote a book in 2002 called "my jihad". the other is omar samari. he got involved with jihadist extremist and thought it would be a good idea to embezzle money from them, realized how adaption dangerous that was and went to the france government and worked with them. in the late 1990's he fell out with his insiders and wrote a book later on. both of these individuals did their work in the to be here. the palm tree isn't necessarily real behind behind him. but morten's story is exceptional. we have never seen a story like this with somebody who has gone so deep inside the world of al-qaeda and come back to tell the tale not in a courtroom or guantan

unless you have strategy to fight and win against all jihadist.ut out a fire here and another break out here. >> cliche is a back a -- whack a mole situation. >> it is clear that the muslim community, the middle eastern community is going to have to take control of this. they are going to have to. >> yeah, number one, they can't fight and number two i don't think that's ever going to happen. >> united states. >> i see turkey, for example, which is a secular muslim country do anything then i will say maybe hope is in the air. james rosen james kerry wait until you see this. miller on the president's speech afternoon the white house fence jumper. those reports after these messages. there's never been a better time to come to bass pro shops than right now. announcer: bass pro shops is the place for incredible deals. like huge savings on rugged, lockable plano sportsman's storage totes starting at only $10. abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! the smartest or nothing. the quiete

jihadists are coming from all sorts of countries. they might subsequently go home and carry out terrorist attacks. >> that was french president francois hollande speaking a short while ago in baghdad. france has said it is prepared to take part in air strikes against the islamic state organization in iraq if necessary. the president's plane is carrying 15 tons of humanitarian aid to be delivered in the kurdish capital later this friday. for more on this story, i am joined by our international affairs editor. we are seeing francois hollande in iraq. it is quite a strong showing of support for this new iraqi government. >> yes. the strong showing of support should not be understated. it is symbolic seeing him there. this is the first head of state to visit the new prime minister, a prime minister whose country is in the midst of what he says is a deteriorating security situation to say the least. you still have much of the country in thrall to the extremist fighters. there have been recent successes in the efforts to push them back. mo

in algeria, herve gourdel, a french hostage, has been beheaded by a jihadist group.ombing syria is not authorized by the u.n., another potential problem for the u.s. and its allies. they are grafting another layer of conflict onto a complex war that is spreading across the region. --r me but when, bbc news, jeremy bowen, bbc news, at the u.n.. >> i am joined by the white house counterterrorism adviser. thank you very much for joining me. in the conversations taking place in the white house at the moment, what does initial success -- what does this initial stage of airstrikes look like to you? >> what i think you have seen, the events of the last 48 hours, the president bring together a coalition of arab partners, and as far as the military strikes strikes in syria and indeed the strikes already in iraq. this is a broader effort that goes beyond military action and that is what the president was talking about today at the united nations. this is about all nations coming together about the threat posed by isil. >> you have been gathering a coalition yourself here it wh

forming what it calls a core coalition to to take on jihadist. what's left of gaza, new pictures show the overwhelming scale of destruction after 50 days of conflict with israel. >>> tributes are paid to joan rivers, the pioneer comedian who's died at the age of 81. >>> hello. welcome. western nations are poised to impose tougher sanctions on russia over the conflict in eastern ukraine. it's one of the issues discussed by world leaders at a nato summit in south wales. from there we report live. >> reporter: welcome to the nato summit, day two. new port in wales is where they're hoping to hear positive news in the ceasefire talks between russia, ukraine and pro russian rebels. as i say, they're positive, trying to be optimistic and also prepareing for failure. there's a strong message from nato and eu leaders this morning to say we're preparing further sanctions against russia if there's no progress on that rebellion in eastern ukraine. i'll talk to the foreign minister about the view where he is. first, let's bring you up to date with this report

it is now engaged in the battle against islamic state jihadists. >> the pkk plays a central role. the kurdish fighters in northern syria are an offshoot. in the mountains in iraq, it was pkk from the party's central office who shielded the minority in the retreat and escape from the region. >> unlike the pkk, another group, the peshmerga, have received to german weapons to help against i.s. critics question of the groups are working together and whether the pkk could misuse the weapons. on the other hand, the pkk's fighters could wipe out i.s. for the west, it poses a dilemma. >> if an organization is listed as a terrorist group, that prevents countries from working with him. for european organizations, the pkk poses problems on the national level in different countries. also in terms of international relations. >> if countries like germany legalize the pkk, as demonstrators demand, the move could anger nato partner turkey. for now, the pkk remains on the terror list, no matter how much their help may be needed in fighting i.s. jihadists. >> there is growing pressure on countries

but my point here is those american jihadist and western jihadist are not produced overnight or over. over the past five or six years we have seen how many maybe 60 attempts, only three were bloody, fortunately. fort hood, the boston attack. looking at the other attempts, that will give us a real number of how many could be jihadist. switching to isis now. melissa: what do we do to slow down the recruitment? >> we need an aggressive psychological operation campaign going after before and fighters overseas, we must be attacking their jihadist website endlessly, creating false websites we can lure people into help us identify who they are. we need to be an aggressive campaign that has nothing to do with fighting on the job but everything with information technology. melissa: do you agree with that? >> already fighting against them and have not received any aid from us. melissa: we appreciate it. scotland this time, talking to the man campaigning 24/7 to make sure scott's vote yes to independence. for since the fear of concerns he is met with every day. and often called the toughest job

there are plenty of jihadist organizations all over. >> how has it gotten so big? i mean i know the israelis have been watching for a long time and they've been telling us a lot of things about iran, but how is it that it got to this point where boko haram is such a big part of africa and now we have isis. how did it get so wildly out of control large. >> it's not clear what's going on in the middle east in the last five or ten years, but you found that the jihadist organizations are taking ground in iraq and syria, in gaza, in central africa, in nigeria, all over the place. and actually, although the focus is now on isil because of their pr approach, they executed some journalists in front of the camera, but boko haram in central africa executed more civilians so far than isil in iraq. it has abducted 300 girls, schoolgirls and raped them and sold them. hamas in gaza, they just now executed 160 palestinian civilians. and by the way, hamas, you could see them doing like isil does in iraq. the only difference is that the idea of confronting hamas, otherwise we would

against jihadist. and from one of our viewers, she tweets, what is winning? what do we get? new york on the democrats line. caller: good morning. theuld like to speak about news i got about the bombing in syria. i think president barack obama is his decision to strike these isis terrorists was a good decision, his leadership is very good. rushing to do all of these things without a proper plan would be the wrong way to go. now is the right time. i think it is very presidential, and doing a very good job on

so this became ground zero for jihadists around the world. and this is one of the challenges that we're going to have generally is where you get states that are failing or in the midst of civil war. these kinds of orgainizations thrive. that's why it's so important for us to recognize part of our solution here is going to be military. we push them back and shrink their space and go after their command and control and their capacity and their weapons and fueling and cut off their financing and work to eliminate the flow of foreign fighters. >> you mentioned james clapper the director of national intelligence. he didn't just say that we under estimated isil. he says we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the iraqi army to fight. >> that's true. that's absolutely true. >> you can see the full interview with president obama later this evening on 60 mins. just days after a man jumped the fence of the whitehouse details reveal a gunman firing several bullets. the secret service fumbled its response and as julianna gold up tells us

well, no, actually it's jihadists. it's a very broad term.hey come in various places in the world and they are spreading out in a number of continents. and we have to it be serious about going after these people and keeping them from taking over territory, getting sources of funding, having training camps and launching attacks against us. and, you know, i know that many people don't feel president bush had it exactly right, but he did have certainly right the concept that this is a war against this huge movement around the world. and when you sit back and pretend like it's not a real movement, and there are not people doing these things that endanger ourselves and our friends around the world, well, then, obviously bad things happen and they have been allowed to grow and expand throughout africa, throughout the middle east, and throughout other parts of the world. and now, as you know, even recruiting people from the west. i mean, this is -- this is that's not been secret. this is something that our intelligence community has been briefing th

and ignoring the threat of radical islamist jihadist them.ould disagree. >> i want to concentrate on the victim in this too. >> hurt by domestic terrorism do not have a right to say they warn their 7000 comes with mark i am just talking about one thing. >> you did compare them. >> i did not. they are all under one umbrella. >> we have to agree to disagree. >> i think it is important you talk about the victims on 9/11, so much this week, but this 19-year-old has something in common with them. that is it was random and it was hit because he was an american in that can be happening to any of us. this is a special young man. he made the world better, he was a blessing. yes, i live in new jersey so i know more about this story, but it is gaining traction. watch for it. i hope other media pick up on it too because whatever you want to call it isis would love to see happen on our shores, it is already happening. president obama isis strategy facing major criticism from military analysts. they say relying on the syrian rebels who have now been you ha

american jihadists?going -- there's one recruiter that was just picked up -- well, identified in bloomington, minnesota at the mosque, there are recruiters going around the country in other mosques where they identify potential volunteers. they test them out to see if they're willing to die on behalf of martyrdom of the cause for all l allah. they give them cash, money for their families in case they die. they go through turkey. turkey has allowed hundreds to go through to syria then to iraq. and we counts turkey as one of our top allies. we haven't put them on the terrorism watch list which we should. so there's a major disconnect judge here between what we should be doing to protect the homeland and protect american citizens versus what the president is doing in not stopping isis on the ground in iraq versus what he's not doing here in the homeland itself. >> all right, steve emerson, always good to hear your take on things. thanks so much for being with us. >> sure. >>> all right. coming up, obama's s

jihadists in syria release this video. faces of their enemies, lined up on a wall.a photo of morton storm. >> the american, british, danish spy agencies, all decline cnn's request for comment on morton storm. to date, storm's story and his value to those agencies, has never been publicly contradicted. >> my jenn was to do a change to people's life. now i have done so, so, so i was, a bad spy, able of creating good results. >> multiple identities. shifting loyalties. a life of extremes. from radical islam to top level secret agent. now, morton storm has emerged from the shadows. taking his chances in the spt light. left with what he says are few allies. but plenty of deadly enemies. ♪ ♪ >>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. >> great to have you back, don. i'm alisyn. a rochester man indicted for allegedly recruiting for isis and plotting to attack u.s. troops returning from iraq. is the terror threat growing at home? >> plus, manhunt. police searching for a pennsylvania man they belief ambushed two state troopers killing one and wounding the other. and threatening

i think the jihadists are look at the west and see a paper tiger and understand these airstrikes maybe will extract a very small tactical toll but they are a significant army with the resources of a nation-state. they have a lot of resources, oil resources. they have taxation resources. wise communication and security, all of that lends to a credible state, and we don't really have an army ready to chase them out like we did in libya. you have the peshmerga and the kurdish forces and the iraqi army, but none of that seems like it's capable of dislodging of doing what the president said, of degradingsering and destroying the islamic state. >> you predicted that maybe nothing would happen. what are you saying should happen? >> it's a bad situation. iraqi civilian deaths and decline from 3500 month at the peak of the insurgency. 500 troops being killed a month down to zero. yes, maliki misbehaved, but the bad actors in the region have to make deals with the other bad actors to survive. we'll see what happens when the west withdraw from ther from there. there is no appetite for another gro

the jihadists well understand the west does not have the will to defeat them.t's why they behead people on camera. they are arrogant. these savages don't fear reprisals because the reprisals are so weak. and that brings me to general george patent. as you may know, i have been promoting my new book killing patent and many interviews ask what general patent would think about fighting the jihad. yesterday on abc news, george stephanopoulos and i discussed my idea for mercenary army paid for by the coalition which is obviously not willing to fight itself. george patent's name came up. >> would he really believe in outsourcing our national security like that? >> no. patent would want to just go in himself to do it. if george patent were alive today, he would be saying to president obama, give me the third, i'll go in to syria and i will wipe them all out. and he would. that's what he would do. it's a war wide war against jihad not going to stop. so let's win the war. that's what george patton would say. let's win the damn war. >> that's easy to say, difficult to do

it views itself as the new leader of the global jihadist movement. it operates the most significant propaganda machine of any extremist group. it disseminates timely and media content on multiple platforms, including social media, all designed with widespread following in the group. to tout itsedia military capabilities, its execution of captured soldiers, and its consecutive number of battlefield victories. the group's supporters have more recently sustained the momentum on social media by encouraging attacks in the united states and against u.s. interests in retaliation for our airstrikes. it uses propaganda campaign to bring foreign fighters to the group, including many western -- from western countries. qaeda is the dominant voice of influence in the global extremist movement. today, isil has more than 10,000 ,ighters, it controls much crossroads of the middle east area, about the size of the kingdom, and its strategic goal is to establish a caliphate to armed conflict with apostate regimes. those it considers apostates such as iraq, syria, and t