[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. welcome to this panel, disrupting isis online, the challenge of combating online radical, this is to the congressional internet pockets and hosted by the congressional internet caucus. we would like to thank the cochairs, bob goodlatte and senator john sthune for hosting us today. we talk about salient topics to the internet and policy, and likes to come out to events for the summer. we have several excellent panelists with us. from the center for democracy, roughshod hussein from the department of justice, countering violent extremism over there and shamus hughes on the program for extremism at george washington university for cyber and homeland security. i am a fellow at the internet law and policy foundry, a fellow at the congressional internet caucus. let s get started. let s get a brief overview and jump into it and get into what is the real issue with extremists online, what role do platforms like facebook, and googl
36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. charlie d agata is with the kurdish peshmerga forces. reporter: the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. u.s. air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. dug in on the mountain side, kurdish peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u.s. advisers. this is one of the forward fighting position where s they re helping to pick targets for air strikes. soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes it s just five minutes from the moment they call it in to the time it s delivered. kurdish fighters are so close to isis militants, they can hear their conversations
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iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highwhw that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a mililon residents. charlie d agata is with the kurdish peshmerga forces. reporter: the battle to reclaim s sjar began in the air. u.s. air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. dug in on the mountain side, kurdish peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u.s. advisers. this is one of the forward fighting positioiowhere s they re heheing to pick targets for air strikes. soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes it s just five minutes to the time it s delivered. kurdish fighters are so close to isis militants, they can hear their conversations
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