youtube has yanked, the video has been removed. it violates the policy on vie lance. as you were saying, clancy, they will find other places to put that video out. plenty of other places that video is going to be seen. you re right. it s to recruit new people. right now there s a whole what they call a twitter storm. all eyes on isis. it s out there. that s the hashtag that they re using. people coming in, oh, yes, we support you from all over the world. these are mostly people that have never done much of anything in their lives. and they see this as very exciting. but in english. yes. are they trying to recruit disaffected europeans? americans? they re trying to get anybody they can. they need numbers. we estimate them to be about 10,000 strong. that s not that that many. and they lose a lot of people in these suicide bombings. and i have looked at the recruitment process. when u.s. troops were in iraq, they captured data from the al qaeda in iraq. the precedent for this
slick videos that they are putting together, targeted specifically toward a western potential jihadi audience, they are exhibiting a much greater level of sophistication than we have seen as of yet. they are significantly more sophisticated than al qaeda and iraq, for example. and isis has managed to attract more foreign fighters, more europeans and westerners, into the battlefield than al qaeda and iraq ever did. so it s a much more developed organization that the iraqi security forces are up against than the american military was ever facing during its its decade plus in iraq. so that being said, what kind of an impact is it having in terms of recruitment on the ground? look, most people are going to join isis are not necessarily going to join it because it has a very slick production video that s out there or because they ve launched a eed a massiv twitter campaign. they re going to do so because they buy into the radicalized ideolo ideology. if one wants to defeat isis they