then my nutrition heart health mix is for you. it s a wholesome blend of peanuts, pecans and other delicious nuts specially mixed for people with hearts. i said people with hearts. because hearts health is important. that s why i ve researched optimized and packaged this mix just for you. not you. so if you have a heart start optimizing your nutrition with my nutrition. planters. nutrition starts with nut. two california men arrested this week charged with conspiring to travel to the middle east to join isis. these arrests, in which officials tracked down suspects they believe want to join the terror group. there have been 31 isis-related arrests in this country since january taking place across nine states. some wondering if the u.s. is now a terrorist sanctuary. jim hansen executive vice president at the center for security and former member of
a safe place. as you mentioned, there are ongoing fearing about the city s archaeological site being destroyed. isis took control of palmyra earlier this week a city dating back 2,000 years. while we haven t heard of any archaeological sites or artifacts being destroyed we are hearing about growing violence. in fact we ve been getting reports that isis militants had been hunting down syrian government troops and executing them in the streets. either shooting or beheading them and palmyra, we re also seeing not only does it have historical relevance, also strategic military relevance. really it s a crossroads linking damascus to city the to the eastern and northern parts of country, and as we ve seen isis has been basically pushing westward towards damascus. in fact a syrian observatory for human rights says the terror organization already controls half of syria. though this is a huge gain for
and feeling so disenfranchised that they would link up with a grur like isis. it s one thing to point out atrocities they do and another to remind people that america is a great place. we do have is a civilization and culture worth preserving and that the things that are happening in these islamic states are barbaric and uncivilized. it s a return to the seventh century and that s not something anybody should be happy to have happen or to look forward to. jim, if you look back over history, that was a very hopeless time. and yet here in america, there are people filled with a lot of hope for a better tomorrow, and dealing with situations. so what s fueling this desire among these young men to even think or consider that isis would be a great thing to do? well like i said they do have a tremendous outreach program through social media and online means, but the center for security policy commissioned a study of mosques here in the united states and out of a
the terror group and a huge loss for syria s government and in particular syrian president bashar al assad. also the capture of ramadi as you laid out, as you talked about, julie, the capital in anbar province also a huge gain for isis. isis took control last week. so far an ximtestimated 50,000 people have fled heading towards baghdad. we ve seen images of heading over a bridge that goes over the euphrates into anbar province and we ve heard of hurns being killed and isis militants essentially executing anybody trying to escape including women and children. so the indication at this point is that while isis has tried to push to the east we also heard, as you mentioned, that iraqi troops launched a counterattack, took control of a town outside of ramadi and indication perhaps, that a major ground offensive may be in the works. we ve been waiting for that. also as we know julie isis
rights and reminding parents to keep their eye on their children and keep them 0u6 harm s way and out of trouble over the weekend as tensions could escalate there in cleveland, ohio. moving on. iraqi forces launching a counterattack against isis recaptures a town the terror greep seized friday. iraqi militias killing several militants before they withdrew, that area about four miles from the key city where isis took over. s now a large-scale offensive and in syria isis fighters breaking into a museum there. militants taking over that city earlier in the week raising fears that ancient ruins will be destroyed. more from our middle eastern bureau. reporter: the good news the militants that broke into the museum didn t get an artifacts because apparently they had already been removed and are in