control whose security forces are actually beginning take the fight to isis, to those who are fighting alongside isis rather than the image portrayed thus far of an army that abandoned weapons. whether that s happening or not we ll see. you said that the threat from these foreign fighters is unlike any jihad threat that the united states and western europe faced. how so? now in the situation between iraq and syria, we have 12,000 foreign fighters, most from about 81 different countries. unlike other jihad wars that happened before, most of these people went knowing exactly who isis are, knowing exactly who al qaeda affiliates not like someone went to afghanistan pre9/11 with some other idea. exactly and recruited using social media tools, they have their own bubbles in social heed media. the situation in iraq is different there are foreign