when isis goes down, forget about isis, it's al qaeda is the threat. when al qaeda goes down, forget about al qaeda, it's isis that's the threat. the situation has to be seen as two threats emanating from two directions. these two threats are building up, they are becoming bigger. 16 years of war and terror more than trillions of dollars spent and mobilizing almost all the countries in the world and resources and so on and so forth and what we have today is a bigger isis on the tub of that, a bigger -- a bigger al qaeda and on the top of that we have isis which is competing with al qaeda over the global leadership of jihad. they want -- both of them are, i think this is what defines the next few years, as they compete over the global leadership of jihad. on the top of the two threats we have something that we don't talk about a lot, which is -- and i think we can start envision the third way of jihad, another iteration of jihad, the next big thing in jihad which is an idea between al qaeda's focus on the winning hearts and minds and trying not to provo

we didn't know what would follow isis, we can also guarantee whether it's isis, bits of al qaeda and isis merging, whatever her generations of this and this is because there are nine big drivers. there is a regional civil war between the sunni and shia that nadia referred to. they amplify all the negative collapse of arab government. there is a collapse of the arab economies, the massive population in the arab world and north africa reason in the world other than the sub-saharan africa. the populations will double inan the next 15 years ago that there is a massive wave of muslim immigration which does not have the capacity, most importantly the ideological capacity to make these french. and then there's the national european parties that will increase the alienation of muslims in europe because they are basically anti-immigrantthet parties. in hungary and poland, france and britain, these were all very marginal parties, but now theye are key players if not actually running the government. and so, if you accept that alll these big drivers are going to be out there because isis is a eu

say forget about isis when al qaeda goes down they said forget about that, isis is the bigger threat. i think there has to be seen as to threats emanating from two directions. they're building up and becoming bigger. more than $2 trillion to spend on mobilizing all the countries in the world and the resources and what we have today is a bigger isis and on top of that a bigger al qaeda and isis over the global leadership of jihad as they compete over the global leadership and on top of this threat, we have something we don't talk about a lot which is, i think we can start the third way of jihad. the next big thing in jihad which is an idea between a kite is focused on winning the heart and mind and trying not to provoke the population against it and between isis aggressive way of even speaking against, no matter what people in our area say and they did that when against what people think is right, they overplayed the hand we have a new movement of people who say something in between. we can still be jihadist but we need to be more in touch with the popular ideas. they understand this

and then to be more favorable to isis. but it does want something in return which is a transnational and to go back to the idea of a lot of people have the idea when isis goes down they say forget about al qaeda. and then emanating from two directions for girl with $2 trillion to mobilize a of those resources and then isis is competing with that global leadership and that is what defines them the next few years. then it is the third wave. and trying not to provoke and then to put that together no matter what. and to go against what they think is right and then to do something in defeat to be more in touch with that population end then to be in sync with that popular mindset. >> now we will open into the audience. >> keep your questions simple as possible. >> i have a question. >> pick one. >> now how they feel toward the isis coalition?. >> really have a few minutes >> woody doing to counter isis?. >> where they are now?. >> but we tend to be a more rational but there seems to be a popular base before it came over and befo

being inflicted by isis.is looks like it is on the wane, all i see is it is getting far messier and less concentrated. civilian casualties continue unabated. does not mean the fighters are giving up. and it raised the question of what the strategy is. i do not think there is a strategy. there is a game played at two levels. the military level... i hate this word, it was invented during the iraq invasion of 2003 — degrading, we are degrading isis. isis has been degraded in mosul, unfortunately the old city of mosul was totally degraded along with it. that is what is going on in raqqa. raqqa will be degraded along with it. at the other end you have the constant chaos of what we used to call the great powers. russia is involved. america is involved. turkey, over the border, a nato ally, this week it was announced that they are buying russian high—tech computers and military equipment. where is the organisation at the top? there isn't any at the top. at the bottom there are people who are... the fighting continue

the choice is us or isis, what would you like? isis is important or sisters. isis under any name, whether it's al qaeda, etc. the choice that the arab states, many of them it's us or them. they don't want an actual liberal voice. an actual viable democratic competition. that is way worse scenario than actually dealing with terrorists that they basically can fund. they have the almost -- they are totally in charge because they are in charge of liberal voices dunn to a sentence. opening the borders for thousands to pour into syria or -- until in the west there is again really understanding and appreciation for the power, the threat power because it's the only power they can root very liberal values. i don't see the states becoming that part of history in the arab world. daveed: i was reminded of that line from the "x-files" i want to believe. i would love to see those things come true. i share that skepticism that's wait it plays out. nadia spoke pretty well to the second scenario. on the first scenario joshua: part of what's challenging about the ideological co

by isis.looks like it is on the wane, all i see is it is getting far messier and less concentrated. civilian casualties continue unabated. does not mean the fighters are giving up. i do not think there was a strategy. the military level, i hate this word, it was invented during the iraq invasion of 2003, degrading, we are degrading isis. the old city of mosul was degraded along with it. that is what is going on in raqqa. russia is involved. america is involved. turkey, over the border, a nato ally, it was announced that they are buying russian high—tech computers and military equipment. where is the organisation at the top? there isn't any at the top. at the bottom there are people who are, you know, the fighting continues as before, except isis is being pushed out. and it is leading the way into other places. as mentioned, they canjump on any pilgrimage site in this shia part of iraq if it wishes. but can it rule anything? can it make inroads anywhere? they are claiming this idiot bombing yes

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from its start, isis has realised the power of the web.rd to romanticise the idea that going to syria and taking up arms is a hijrah — a spiritual necessity. but recently the numbers of young muslim men and women making the crusade have dwindled. three, four years ago — simple, hop on a flight to turkey, go over what was essentially an unmanned border, walk straight in. now there's a system in place at the border, there's different controls at ports, at airports, they kind of know what they should be looking out for, some tell—tale signs of an individual looking to travel. so simply it's just far more difficult. lacking foot soldiers in syria, the terror group now has a new proclamation announced via twitter — if you cannot reach the caliphate, start waging war in your home country and what's more, we will help you. one of the first men to tweet this ominous sentiment was birmingham—born jihadist and supreme isis recruiter, junaid hussain. he developed something of a cult following on social media by weaving posts of his favourite music wi

it is all released in syria russia's defense ministry says if the whole area cannot be cleared of isis terrorists it would be a major blow to the terror agree to train carries the again there with more details on this. this could be a major major breakthrough couldn't it well yes and speaking of the latest things that we have received both from the syrian army and the russian military i can tell you that they are fully confirming it now first we heard the confirmation from the syrian president we saw it in a tweet that there was an announcement on syrian state t.v. we do realize that it's a very special day for syria and the people of syria then a few hours later this is something that happened within the last forty or thirty minutes or so we heard the confirmation from the russian military and now with the actual details of what's been happening on the ground the blockade was being broken are emerging we're getting statements by the russian army getting bits of that information from the defense ministry and it looks like the islamic state terrorists around the errors or were planning

well this is a whole doctrine that isis came up with based on the fact they. are not considered people of the book like christians and jews are use these are considered. basically devil worshippers they've long been called of a throughout their history they've been persecuted. every hundred years or so because of it they've actually undergone several drug slides in the past and so under the islamic state doctrine because they considered it is the devil worshippers they basically use that as a will to enslave their women and turn them into an economy at the end of the day that's what it was about it was about systematically turning their women into an economy and making money off of them as well as a racing is easy identity. and gene over it really and in many ways supplanting his innate and not just to raising it but actually supplanting it with isis as a version of an identity which is why so many of the boys of of the age of seven were actually kidnapped and sent to indoctrination camps by isis where they basically were in cold catered with ices idiology. we

isis was the winning team. they had the brand name. everybody wanted to be a part of isis. the younger generation didn't have a future. al qaeda has some pretty sophisticated, high-level educated people doctors and scientists. isis is not the case. it's more of a populist movement within the jihadist world. i think the counter narrative is we do prevail because of their ideology prevails over this destructive hate, hateful ideology and the half but we have to stay on top of this. i love jane harman's quote that terrorist don't check our political affiliation. this is a bipartisan center. i don't see terrorism as a partisan issue and i don't manipulated for political means. basically, it is about protecting the working people to for both democrats and republicans. i applaud what this organization has done. to touch on the matter of governor king advocates so strongly for and that was we have implemented pretty much of the 911 recommendations, entry and exit is one of the last ones that is in a bill that i just found. [inaudible] the hijackers came in legally and they oversta

cooperative between the nations that are fighting isis and you see that. isis is. losing battle ground everywhere in iraq and syria a little bit on we believe we hope that the focus on this issue is right to do to diminish to exterminate isis but the real problem we believe also is why is there isis what's the reason i systems in iraq why the reason you have isis in syria and i believe my concern is you know we fought all of us. in iraq and everywhere in the world but the real reason of why this kind of organization exists. the problem in iraq if they don't forge a real partnership between all sects i believe that my concern and even in syria my concern is you might fight this kind of groups but if you don't have real partnership real political solution with long term you know. partnership between the people then there is this is not the solution unless unless you forge these partnerships unless people believe see that you know there is no different between a syrian and another. than my my concern is you have something worse than isis important thing is to have a v

first, isis is losing, the so-called caliphate is crumbling.with support from the defeat isis coalition, local forces have liberated more than three-quarters of the territory isis once held in iraq, and about two-thirds of the territory it held in syria. this loss of safe haven makes it harder, not impossible, but harder for isis to click external operations. second, isis is prolific use of social media has expanded the groups reach. the group is capable of radicalizing and giving advice over the internet on how to conduct attacks. aspiring jihadists, therefore, are able to attack soft targets at home instead of traveling to the conflict zone. the question then becomes what do we do about it, how should the united states and its allies respond to these different kinds of terrorist threats? after 9/11 we adopted a number of new tools that were geared at disrupting and degrading a a hierarchical centralized adversary like al qaeda. for instance, we improve the intelligence community ability to intercept terrorist communications. one example is se

assessing counterterrorism policies from 9/11 to isis. our goal here today is to take an unsparing look at the united states' efforts to confront and engage terrorism over the last decade and a half. we're also seeking to engage in a difficult question, which is to try to understand the role that extremist ideology plays in the violence that continues to wrack the globe. this is a question that many have wrestled with for a long time and this is a focus of the study that we'll talk about. it's important, of course, to begin this morning by remembering that 16 years ago, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken in new york, washington and pennsylvania through a vicious and senseless terrorist attack. it's an attack that, i think, forever changed the arc of american policy. there's no question that we have invested profound resources over the last six 16 years to protect the homeland. while no amount of bloodshed is acceptable, the total of violence in the u.s. 105 casualties over the past 16 years. while, painful, this is an accomplishment.

under the banner of isis. a new generation that knows how to exploit the internet, to recruit, train, and radicalize. and we've seen this profoundly. it's one of the greatest challenges we have. in 2014, '15, and '16, when i wrote my book, when i would walk out of my classified briefing room in the capital, it was terrifying about the tempo, the numbers of arrests, the numbers of plots. as the caliphate was agrgrowing iraq and syria, we had people like the master on the internet, with 150 different twitter handles, and it went from the kinetic threat, looking at foreign fighters training in iraq and syria, and going into europe, which is still a major threat to europe. and i would say europe is still in a pre-9/11 posture, and they're still learning to stand up and protect themselves. and our focus was to prevent travel of fighters into the united states. but if you can recruit over the internet, you don't have to travel. so, sending messages all over the world and into the united states to radicalize. as we'v

and -- isis in syria in 2014. the isis bomb making factory in syria was one of the first targets the united states hit. so, that has never been far from our mind. on the other hand, we have seen this evolution and this disparate metastases of the movement that bin laden tried to promote. and in many respects, the discipline that he tried to impose on his organization to do complex and lengthy planning for attacks like 9/11. that discipline has eroded, and we have much more opportunistic and freelance operations, some of which we have had success against, some of which we have not. i think it has diminished in itr david: cohesion, if nothing else. let'e you mentioned that. i am sure it took up a large share of your time in the white house. again let's start at a high level spot. did the obama administration and let the syrianes people down by not intervening in 2012, when the civil war was being heavily contested and there was a chance to topple the assad regime? looking back there have been almost half a million p

where they basically were in cold catered with isis idiology. so credibly said now tell us what happened to the men who were able to get away who are they joining forces with to fight back isis. well you. these since they were attacked by ice is back in two thousand and fourteen in august. they were actually supposed to be protected by the peshmerga which is the u.s. backed kurdish militia of iraqi kurdistan but the person who actually retreated from sin jar in mass leaving his evenings defenseless against isis which is why so many of them were captured and why tens of thousands of them ended up trapped on that mountain so after the august third genocide of twenty fourteen years these began joining what ever group they could to get armed and save their women save their children save and rescue the people who were kidnapped by isis and to try and really protect themselves so that nothing like this would ever happen to them again and so since that day it is these have joined both the as well as the p.k. k. . and his e.t.s. who joined the p.k. k. b

first, isis is losing. they're crumbling. with support from the defeat isis coalition, local forces have liberated more than three quarters of territory isis once held in iraq and about two thirds of the territory it held in syria. this makes it harder for isis to plan external operations. second, isis is prolific use of social media has expanded the group's reach. the group is capable of radicalizing and giving advice over the internet on how to conduct attacks. aspiring jihadis able to attack at home instead of traveling to the conflict zone. the question then becomes what do we do about it? how should the united states and its allies respond to these different kind of terrorist threats? after 9/11 we adopted a number of new tools that were geared at disrupting and degrading a centralized adver sarry like alside a al qaeda. intercept terrorist communications. one example is section 702 which made is easier to collect the e-mails and phone calls of nonamericans who were located overseas. we also ramped up our efforts to bloc

the reason isis was able to sweep through iraq is because the sunni people found isis a more attractive alternative than the iraqi government, at the time, to be governed by. so now that isis is being moved out of that area, how does the peace get won in these regions? lisa: like any good professor, the answer is in a kernel of what you said there. i think it has to begin in both iraq and syria with addressing some of the causal factors in the first instance. let's take iraq. isis was born of the grievances, the sunni grievances that went unaddressed by the malaki government. to put a fine point on it, you had sunni populations, some form of military in sunni areas in iraq that have the following choice -- i go to fight for a government that is not addressing my grievances, hasn't done anything to indicate that i can be part of an inclusive government, or i deal with a group that would like to kill, maim, chop off the head of my family members. they are left to that choice. they roll through places like fallujah and other areas to swell their ranks with people that don't feel like they

but three years and two months isis besieged it as or one of the longest blockades in modern history the city was completely cut off from the outside world dozens and hundreds of kilometers in any direction there was isis . out of the city was a dangerous helicopter trip. thank you. and they don't need the consul but he's in new. york. times the situation seemed hopeless until now lease is the final chapter of the battle of the resort elements of the syrian military have broken the siege they have reached a defended taking thousands of square kilometers from isis in brutal battles you could have predicted that the syrian military would reach did resort in such a short time but evidence again that isis in syria is crumbling. but. while isis is weakened on the retreat they won't fall there will be plenty of brutal battles ahead but this is a turning point by breaking the siege of data stored in the syrian government has won one of its most significant victories during the civil war reportedly isis puts up stiff resistance as the syrian military approached the city they sent more than f

isis was the winning team. they had the brand name. everyone wanted to be a part of isis. i am a generation without the future. generation a younger without a future. impressive. the counter narrative at the end of the day, we do prevail because our ideology or over this district of hate, hateful ideology they have. but we have to stay on top of this. i love jane harman's quote that terrorists don't check our political affiliation. adon't look at terrorism as partisan issue or manipulated for -- manipulate it for political means. i think both democrats and republicans believe in it. i applaud what this organization has done. stronglykane advocates for implementing all the 9/11 recommendations. in a bill is on who is comingnow into our country and who is leaving. we still don't have the capability to know. we kind of know who is coming in, but we don't. and we don't know who is leaving. we have to get a better handle on that. with respect to jurisdiction, there is a tortured process of chairman to reauthorize the department for the first time since its creation. that was im

int is in local control these areas isis has been pushed out of. one of the reasons this area problem has been sent -- the syria problem has been so hard iraq, weke in i.s. -- have a partner in iraq steadily growing more and more capable in the form of the iraqi security forces. no such partner exists or existed in syria for a good, long time in this campaign, and we have gone through many iterations of trying to support , asbuild up a partner force has been written about. we are having success with syrian defense forces, and a syrianf both arab and kurdish forces. the challenge is going to be getting, and it has to be arab forces that control those places where isis has been pushed out. that is a big challenge -- which is one of the reasons i mentioned before -- i would like to see, and we would like to have seen our air of partners -- arab partners bring more to the table. david: if they don't, does that mean the u.s. is going to be there, essentially trying to protect the sunni populations from the kurds, the assad government, the uranian's --ir

sharyl: but italy is targeted by isis, right? scott: giamperro massolo, the former head of intelligence, tells me not only would italians be very surprised if they had any clue how many plots have been foiled, he says they'd also be quite proud of what the intelligence agencies have done, but never made public. sharyl: interesting. great piece, scott. thank you. coming up on "full measure" -- it's a critical week for the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. we'll hear from senator lindsey graham, an architect of the plan. did you get fios too? no. mr. peterson, fios is a 100% fiber optic-network. what does that mean? think about it. if you got an awesome new car you'd put the best gas in it, right. so why hook up your awesome technology to anything other than a fiber-optic network? i got to go. peterson. peterson's wife. counting on you guys. your internet deserves the 100% fiber-optic network. and now get our fastest internet ever plus tv and phone for just $79.99 per month. sharyl: after a humilia

isis is collapsing and various areas across iraq especially near the syrian border it's increasingly difficult for isis to get the reinforcements it's needs and it's essentially surrounded at this point so it was able to hold off the siege because at this point isis is just there's too many forces stacked against it and we should note it was less than a year ago i believe the u.s. accidentally they say bombed syrian forces fighting isis right there in paris or meanwhile though rania the u.s. is battling isis in syria and they're defacto capital rocka what can you tell us about this fight is it different from the battle over there is or. about iraq as much different because there's so many people involved you've got the u.s. involved you have the u.s. backed forces which are the syrian democratic forces which is essentially just another name for the syrian p.k. group the kurds in syria and you've also got the syrian army involved and syrian allied forces involved and so it's a very complex fight with people on different sides essentially trying to defeat isis but also getting in each

moving now into the fight against isis the russian navy has targeted a number of isis held areas with missiles near the syrian city of dera zora. reports thursday's strikes are really quite significant because many see darrow's or as sort of one of isis last remaining strongholds in syria that we could be seeing the beginning of the end of i saw a final push to take back what little land they do have left at this point and the pictures we have of the seven cruise missiles being launched from two russian submarines in the mediterranean sea really do show a lot of destruction being dug to their targets and of course a statement from the russian defense ministry has confirmed already that all their intended targets were hit and that includes control centers communications hubs and possibly most significantly an ammunition stockpile all in dares or now of course the fall of there is already really started last week when the british did when landmark progress in the city was finally settling a syrian forces backed by russian air force were finally able to break free year long blockade of t

to impede the advancing military units russian forces had to carry out hundreds of air strikes on isis targets there intrenchments their bases as well as ball making factories weapons factories more than that the russian navy launched a salvo of cruise missiles at isis targets and that is order in order to open up this corner to into the city siege has been broken but it hasn't yet been lifted isis still surrounds did a sort of they also hold a number of districts inside the city and it will take a big. battle to clear those and to advance further outside the city nevertheless this is a significant victory that is be celebrated in datasource both by the defendants and the civilians who have suffered so much during the. move the one who despite what may be syria is celebrating with their allies as well this is a tremendous victory against isis. senator dick block from the u.s. state of virginia believes the liberation of duras or will mean the end for a lethal in servia the relief of vieira was or was a spectacular strategic victory by syria and its allies it is one of the greatest thea

in syria is crumbling while isis is on the retreat they won't fold it will be plenty of brutal battles ahead but this is a turning point by breaking the siege of data stored in the syrian government has won one of its most significant victories during the civil war reportedly isis put up stiff resistance as the syrian military approached the city they sent more than fifty suicide car bombs in order to impede the advancing military units the russian air force had to carry out hundreds of air strikes on isis targets there and tried. bases as well as bomb making factories weapons factories more than that the russian navy launched a salvo of cruise missiles that isis targets and there is order in order to open up this color to into the city the siege has been broken but it hasn't yet been lifted isis still surrounds datasource they also hold a number of districts inside the city and it will take a big battle to clear the roads and to advance further outside the city nevertheless this is a significant victory that is being celebrated in datasource both by the defendants and the civilians wh

backed rebels that is not to say it's over or that it will be easy isis has nothing left in. according to the syrian military the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of my dean they have nowhere else to go in the shrinking caliphate the past is quite a good indication for what they might do in the future everywhere they were whatever these areas were liberate the people who thought for the presence of isis have told us horror stories about how they use people as human shields so it's not surprising at all if they would and there was no way for anyone to predict to what extent they would do that but. would they be hampered by any norms of any reason or any more i live the past doesn't indicate that this is the final act the dream of an islamic state has been shattered but even in its death throes will inevitably claim more lives guys do have see from their disorder syria. and as i so loses ground not only in syria but also in iraq and the fate of the families of foreign militants is in question we ask what should happen to the

in syria is crumbling while isis is on the retreat fold it will be plenty of brutal battles ahead but this is a turning point by breaking the siege of data the syrian government has won one of its most significant victories during this civil war reportedly isis put up resistance as the syrian military approached the city sent more than fifty suicide car bombs in order to impede the advancing military units russian forces had to carry out hundreds of air strikes on isis targets there intrenchments their bases as well as ball making factories and weapons factories more than that the russian navy launched a salvo of cruise missiles that isis targets and did as order in order to open up this color to into the city siege has been broken but it hasn't yet been lifted isis still surrounds datasource they also hold a number of districts inside the city and it will take a big battle to clear the lives and to advance further outside the city never the less this is a significant victory that is be celebrated in datasource both by the defendants and the civilians who have suffered so much during

isis, that is three or four steps removed from any debate that this body has ever had. that is not what the founding fathers intended. i will vigorously work with my colleagues. yield the floor. >> the senator from kansas. >> thank you. prior to arriving in the u.s. senate after the election of 2010, i was a member of the house of representatives and i'm one of the 30% of us in congress who were here in 2001 and approve the use of military force. another vote is closely pending. i don't know what the right answer is. i firmly believe constitutional's ability to declare war they will work vigorously to vote for a resolution authorizing force. we have the current head ofgu the force. we will argue that it's our responsibility. the question in my mind, is it prudent to eliminate the authorizations today before we have a new authorizations in place. i don't know the answer to that question.tes i know i've heard colleagues say we will work toas accomplish that but i worry, having experience u.s. senate for the past seven years, that a six-month opportunity will be foregone,

three against isis we discussed the importance of the syrian army's latest victory with the former u.k. ambassador to syria peter ford going to be the breaking of the extremely significant militarily and psychologically tremendous booth for the morale of the government and the government for through. we must be a bit cautious not clear whether it will take days or or weeks to clear i flew out of the the the main fifty of your and then the fourth who can look forward to consolidating the control of the government in pocket jihad these will. hold sway so it going at beth beth going to take a number of months before the syrian government really control over the whole of syria. this week so angry reaction from moscow to the aggressive search of a russian diplomatic compounds ordered shot by the united states video of men searching on the roof and ripping up the flooring at one of the sites was posted on the russian foreign ministry is facebook page shortly after personnel had left the building f.b.i. agents checked basements and attics draws on closets with moscow saying the whole operatio

isis has nothing left to numerous according to the syrian military and the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of my dean they have nowhere else to go in the shrinking caliphate the past is quite a good indication for what they might do in the future everywhere they were whatever the areas where liberated the people who fought for the presence of isis have told us all about how do you people like you when you could not surprising that if they would and there's no way for anyone to predict what they were but. would they be hampered by any norm any reason or any more islet the or the past doesn't indicate that this is the final act the dream of an islamic state has been shattered but even in its death throes it will inevitably claim more lives more guys do you have see from that is or syria. directs parliament has authorized sending troops to kurdish held her cook to take control of the oil fields in that region the move comes in response to the successful kurdish referendum on independence artie's paula sawyer has more tonight the iraq

isis has lost a number of senior leaders. been expelled from key cities and suffered other significant defeats. as isis copes with the loss of territory. they operate as a covert terrorist operation. in some ways they are reverting to its roots. with tactics we saw in the period of 2004 and 2008. however, these territorial losses have unfortunately not translated into a corresponding reduction in the ability to inspire attacks. progress has been made in shrinking the size of territory. this has diminished their ability to inspire attacks beyond the conflict zone. attacks in places like the united kingdom. countries in europe. this highlights the global threat. and the number of arrests and disruptions we have seen that is testament to intelligence work. it tells us the isis ability to reach globally is still largely in tact. this up tick in inspired attacks is in contrast to the pattern of western attacked directed and enabled by the headquarters in syria that we saw in 2016. all of this under scores the belief there's not in