it spread to mosul, baqubah and continues to spread its tentacles across syria.tain it but it's a much more difficult job than dealing with al qaeda in pakistan. when you are confining them to villages in the case of iraq, you are trying to confine them to towns and cities. >> we sleepwalked into this problem. and, you know, we read that the defense secretary chuck hagel, there had been meetings several times about the threat from isis and there had been discussions across the arab world. let me ask you this. when we talk about these new recruits, how many of them are coming from the western world? i know that, obviously, there are many there in the levant. but from the rest of the world, from the uk, even from the u.s.? >> this figure is growing and increasing by the day. we are talking about thousands of recruits from europe, from britain, from continental europe, from canada, from the united states. increasingly, they are being drawn to go fight there. they see this as their sort of afghan jihad that we witnessed in the 19 octob80s. this is their opportunity t