>> it's the first islam organization responsible for popularizing the notion of resurrecting the so-called islamic state, this califate is what he's been dreaming of since 1953. >> the trigger for him was a muslim slaughter he saw every night on tv. every morning in the papers, the genocide in bosnia. >> it had a profound impact on me. up until that point, i didn't consider myself particularly muslim. but almost in a form of defiance, we became so much more muslim overnight. >> and it made him a perfect prospect for a local recruiter. >> he said look at palestine, look at kashmir, look at chechnya, wherever you look, muslims are being killed. there's a global war going on against islams and muslims. i wholeheartedly felt that at 15, 16 years old, i subscribed to it, and dedicated the rest of my life -- in fact i was prepared to die for it.