>> yes, i.s. has become a vanguard for global jihad. though it's an islam ick extremist organization it never subscribed to terrorism. popularizing the notion of establishing a caliphate, the efforts to force a theocracy, the sunni arabs in particular. too impressed of what the i.s. is doing, the i.s. is too extreme for al qaeda, and they've been fighting for a while. unfortunately, it does seem to be attracting the vast majorities of foreign fighters who are traveling to the region to join a jihadist entity, that is probably because of a few factors, one, their use on the ground, two, and three, their premature declaration of