you were dia at the time. do you think it was an intelligence no i don t. i look at. that it s easy i will take one for the team you know the president has to decide who he s going to listen to and what information he s going to use and i think that he was thoroughly advised to say that. the president makes no apologies for being measuring and deliberate about military resources. benjamin rhodes is the national security adviser and a close aid to president obama. do you think we should have been alerted to the threat that isis posed earlier? you know it s always easy to look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a spec time. the question is, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president brought to his approach to
enter saddam hussein s army dismissed my american now many at camp bucca. men with exactly the skillset al baghdadi can make use of. then he was set free. the future leader of isis was recommended for unconditional release by a military review board in december 2004. they did not consider him a threat. whether it turns out al baghdadi is the mastermind of isis or a figurehead the fact remains, the united states has put a $10 million price tag on his head. when we come back the dangerous way that isis is using us television news. while the u.s. is backing
are in the early stages of military operations. it is on iraq to free its people and defend the world from grave danger. when the u.s. invited. it hasn t really thought much about the day after. it was very much focused on overslowing saddam. and what happened in initial weeks was a total power vacuum. as the american occupation quickly devolved into chaos. one man seized the moment al zarkawi, the godfather of isis. in 2004 zarkawi swore allegiance to osama bin laden and became the leader of al qaeda in iraq. the u.s. has described him as one of the world s most
they start a new school system which i found is completely wrong, completely crazy, but it s a system. isis officials toted out a few prisoners, this man is one of a group cap cured kurdish soldiers. when did they cap cure you? he told him he was afraid. shortly after, isis put kurdish prisoners in cages, dressed in orange jump suits they were paraded through the streets and isis made a propaganda video out of it. it s hard to believe but according to him, there are people in mosul who say they are better off under the islamic state. almost all sunni and they are suffered pe hands of iraq shiite
they ask and hope their followers would act in america. but their main focus is not to come here. they want americans to go there. no mother how one rates the level of the threat isis poses, the group has changed the nature of terror. the leaders of isis have recognized that above all they are a messaging machine, which, inturn becomes a recruitment machine t. gruesome videos would seem a repulsive turnoff and are to most people but they work on the web. the shock and awe they produce makes them go viral. that s a scene by tens of millions. that ensures these videos attract those utterly alienated young men. a few thousand among the world s 1.6 billion muslims, who seek revenge, glory, and gore. as long as those young men scattered across the globe are attracted to isis and streamed