i think isis is being very smart not to bring turkey into this. >> peter newman, the excuse has been,t they have this humanitarian crisis on the border and that's the main thing they have to be focused on. do you think that's really the reason why they're not so involved? >> well, they have been very ambiguous. this is going to be really interesting to watch. on one hand, the turks do not want for the west to have only one partner in the region. the kurds which the turks are trying to limit in their ambitions on the other hand, it is, of course, true that the turks have this huge infrastructure on their side of the border of all the rebel groups including isis. and for the turks, it's an interesting calculation. on the one hand, of course they want to beat isis. on the other hand, they know that isis is already within their territory and if they beat isis too hard, the fear is that these groups will turn against turkey and cause all sorts of mayhem within their country. so this is going to be really interesting to watch. >> colonel, we had reports that five or six civilians were kille

peter newman, thank you so much for your time today.st question that i have for you is what is the lure for westerners who see these videos, who see all of this information on social media, why are westerners lured into this group? >> the first group are people who have already been active in extremist networks in their home country and who look at syria and iraq as a finishing school. they're going over there to put into practice what they already believe in. butte they're also people who are drawn into the jihadist orbit by this particular group and this particular conflict. in some cases, it is about adventure, the opportunity to fight, become a hero in their point of view. but also about the humanitarian crisis, building the islamic state, building the caliphate, being part of an enormous historical project. it's a mix of things. the foreign fighters are not one monolithic group. and different people are motivated by different things. >> these westerners who join, would you say that they are accepted within the group, or are they us

peter newman, professor from the department of war studies and director of the study of radicalization. thank you professor newman for being here. first of all, what do we know about how isis recruits through social media? >> well, they have a very extensive campaign on social media. there's the stuff they themselves produce, magazines, videos. the foreign fighters in fact, the woeftern foreign fighters who aren't syria are often involved with the production and the editing of that output. but what's really important, what often gets forgotten is there are literally hundreds if not thousands of sympathizers who are not formally associated with isis, who are disseminating that stuff through twitter, facebook, instagram, all these mannstream platforms that people like you and i would be using every day, too. >> i want to look at what works in combath that social media effort. the u.s. government through its center for strategic counterterrorism communications has been trying to fight back online. they've used a lot of means, a lot of satire to undermine militants. there's one facebook pa

for more analysis on isis, peter newman joins us live, the direction of the international center forhe study of radicalization and professor at kings college, london. thank you for joining us. >> hi. >> yet again the masked man in black in this beheading video spoke in a british accent highlighting again perhaps that westerners are going to join this fight. what does it say to you this may be the same western man some are saying at these beheadings? >> yes, it's the same choreography, the same kind of video. it's the same background. it is the same setup and it seems to be the same person carrying out the execution. someone clearly speaking with a british accent and i think isis tries to make a point here in having the same choreography confronting the fact that the west and the enemies of isis really can't -- don't seem to be able to be to do anything to stop this. >> right, and it is a brute at act like a beheading. does that -- is part of it to draw recruits, would that draw recruits? is it part of a recruiting tactic in addition to get the west, to take them on and intervene in t

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