caliphate, and the governance and taking the power and how the exercise the power. and it is quite clear that the el goals are often trumping the so-called religious ones. so they are going to the museum in iraq, and destroy to a few of the statues to show how islamic they are, and pure islam, you don t have any idol worship, but quietly, they are selling most of the others and they take the hostage hostages, but they want money for them, to make money. and yes, there is a lot more that we have to get to, and lot more talk including the rerecruitment. and another major offensive to take back the city of takrit, and how to defeat isis, and what that would mean, and if the kun kun people in the countries in the region can do it, and what role the united states should play, if any. with my android from tracfone, i can. order safety goggles. play music for seedlings. post science fair projects.
victorious. that is the other worldly end game. the temporal goals are dogmatic too. what they re focussing on is the caliphate and governance and taking power and how to exercise that power. and it seems quite clear that those goals actually often trump the so-called religious ones. so they re going to the museum in iraq. they destroy a few of the statues to show how islamic they are, you know, because pure islam, you don t have any kind of idol worship. but quietly, they re selling most of them. they take hostages, but yet they want money for the hostages. there s a lot more we re going to get to, a lot more to talk about, including recruitment. also, a major yoefrsive getting started to take back tikrit. we ll look at what it will take to defeat isis and what that means and whether the countries in the region are willing and able to do it and what role if
still fresh along with fears of terrorist attacks at home. the next 9/11 is in the making. reporter: the radical fighters are coming from isis, short for the islamic state of iraq and syria. pure islam as they define it. puritanical and intolerant. sources confirm to abc news, president obama hold a national security meeting on iraq but the white house will not confirm who was there or what they discussed. john and rina. susan, thank you. a painful mosquito-borne virus infected 100,000 people in the caribbean made its way to the united states. 40 cases have been reported in the country so far. patients who had recently traveled there. a tennessee pastor who organizes missionary trips say it is important for travelers to protect themselves. we can be as safe in haiti tomorrow as in nashville. good and harm fall all of us as life goes along.
ground to extremists there maybe more troops from iraq heading in there. terry moran has more from iraq. ferocious fighting in northern iraq. iraqi soldiers desperately trying to hold off the jihadist onslaught sweeping down toward baghdad but the iraqi troops are losing. these incredible scenes posted on you-tube by the militants show thousands of iraqi soldiers who surrendered and are now prisoners, the militants claimed. they have wracked up victory after victory. vast territory, major cities falling under this black flag an these fighters threaten baghdad, 11 years after u.s. troops toppled saddam hussein. all of that is now crumbling. the triumphant fighters from the islamic state of iraq and syria, as they are called, isis. a track record of brutality, executions, mass beheadings, massacres. even al qaeda disavowed them. their goal, a new nation straddling two countries and pure islam as they define it,
they don t want to answer your questions. we talked to somebody responsible at the mosque. he said, look, there are thousands of young people that attend the mosque here. how can we know if tamerlan was present? it seems to sort of really beg the question everyone kind of knows who he is in this city right now. everyone is pretty much aware of him. so it really does seem surprising he ll make a statement like that. look, you can t say that people with long beards are all radical islamists, far, far from it. but when you compare the people attending that mosque can other mosques in the city, there were some people there who would look not look out of place on some of the wanted posters that are posted outside police checkpoints here for wanted jihadists. so it s a mosque that itself by its own volition of the people we talked to admit they go for pure islam and that other mosques in the city really don t measure up. so it s an extremist venue and possibly a nexus of concern for securi