according to british media reports, the families are on the turkish side of the border. they are appealing and trying to convince their children to come back home. just more evidence of that strange allure of the narrative of radical jihad. talk to me about the hit list of u.s. military personnel. it is coming from a group i never heard of before. reporter: we never heard of the group. islamic state hacking division or organization. the threat released over the weekend basically calling for attacks on u.s. military personnel on u.s. soil. about 100 of them. release of information and pictures and addresses. the department of defense is saying they are investigating and trying to verify it. there is a lot of skepticism christine, about the threat that has been taken down. the hacking division claims it
calling itself the hacking division of the islamic state. since then now the threats have been taken down. as you mentioned earlier, the names, pictures and addresses of 100 u.s. military personnel posted by the group calling for attacks on them on u.s. soil. now the department of defense and u.s. government agencies are investigating this. they are looking into this threat trying to verify. they are also threat trying to verify. they are also notifying the u.s. military personnel who are mentioned in the threat. while this group says it hacked a database and able to collect this information, there is skepticism about that beca this information might be available for them through social media. of course in cases like this the u.s. government and other countries would have to take these threats very seriously, especially with that threat of
panic? then the report isis targeting u.s. military personnel. have we ever heard of this group? i never heard of the group targeting them online. reporter: this is an unheard of group until the hacking division until we heard of it in the past couple of days with the threat posted on web sites that have been used by isis in the past. also that are open for public postings like this. of course as you mentioned, u.s. government and different agencies would take threats like this very seriously by informing people who might be mentioned in this threat. the 100 service members or others. while we never heard of it before we know this group is savvy electronically. we have seen something similar in the past. christine, isis has threatened other members of the coalition in previous videos. this one, there is some