Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World
The origins of the terror group known as Islamic State or 'ISIS,' and what they want, are explored by CNN's Fareed Zakaria, in a one-hour special, Blindsided: How ISIS Shook the World. Deputy National Security Advisor for strategic communic
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The origins of the terror group known as Islamic State or 'ISIS,' and what they want, are explored by CNN's Fareed Zakaria, in a one-hour special, Blindsided: How ISIS Shook the World.
Deputy National Security Advisor for strategic communication Ben Rhodes; a former jihadi who now leads a counter-extremism think tank, Quilliam, Maajid Nawaz; former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Michael Flynn; Middle East expert and London School of Economics professor of international relations Fawaz Gerges; former FBI agent Ali Soufan; and others discuss the ambitions and goals of the terror group.
The chief objective of ISIS, or Daesh, is its unique vision of a caliphate and luring American and Western troops back to the Middle East to apocalyptic ground in combat.
Also discussed, how ISIS grew to become a transnational terror organization, how it recruits followers, what is being done to try to stop it and what does and doesn't seem to be working.
Deputy National Security Advisor for strategic communication Ben Rhodes; a former jihadi who now leads a counter-extremism think tank, Quilliam, Maajid Nawaz; former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Michael Flynn; Middle East expert and London School of Economics professor of international relations Fawaz Gerges; former FBI agent Ali Soufan; and others discuss the ambitions and goals of the terror group.
The chief objective of ISIS, or Daesh, is its unique vision of a caliphate and luring American and Western troops back to the Middle East to apocalyptic ground in combat.
Also discussed, how ISIS grew to become a transnational terror organization, how it recruits followers, what is being done to try to stop it and what does and doesn't seem to be working.
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