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During the iraq war, the most dangerous jihadis were locked up here, up to 20,000 of the countrys angriest men. Some americans who worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. It wasnt just crowded, it was violent. In 2005, riots broke out. Detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. American forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowd. At least four prisoners were killed. Now, this is camp bucca. Major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. Even he was wary of the inmates. Here he is giving cnns Nic Robertson a tour in 2008. We have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. Theyre very hard to break. You have shields up here to protect us. Everyone is crowded around looking at us now. This is not a place that you want to hang around. We dont want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us. There were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths, and several dangerous jihadis escaped. Into this cauldron, one day in early 2004, a new man arrived. We know him now as abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of isis. And, yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. Al baghdadi has shown his face publicly only once. Last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. But back when the u. S. Had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. The americans seem to see abu bakr as someone who could keep the prison quiet. There are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. He wasnt considered from everything that we know now a highlevel detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. The future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. Those inmates were jihadists or former baathists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. It most assuredly was a jihadist university. Unquestionably. Put them all together in the baking heat of southern iraq, with al baghdadi, a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror, it was a recipe for isis. They were meeting, they were playing soccer together, they were strategizing together. One thing is clear, al baghdadi went through a transformation at camp bucca. Baghdadi was an average person. He was just a sunni foot soldier when he was arrested by the americans. But by the time al baghdadi left, he was someone else. All we know is that baghdadi became an entirely different creature in terms of radicalization, in terms of militarization, in terms of building a huge network of militants in the prison. At camp bucca, al baghdadi networked with hundreds of jihadis. At least some of whom would later join isis. And the day would come when he would also need military expertise. Enter saddam husseins army. Dismissed by the americans, many now at camp bucca. Men with exactly the skill set al baghdadi could later make use of. And 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 sunni arabs in yemen, in iraq, it is fighting i think it landed last tuesday. One second its there. Then, woosh, its gone. I swear i saw it swallow seven people. Seven. I just wish one of those people could have been mrs. Johnson. [dog bark] trust me, were dealing with a higher intelligence here. The allnew audi q7 is here. Can a a subconscious. Mind . A knack for predicting the future. Reflexes faster than the speed of thought. Can a business have a spirit . Can a business have a soul . Can a business be. Alive . Youre an at t Small Business expert . 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And it is frighteningly effective. 20 years ago, you could never find the three people in minnesota who would be attracted to the isis ideology. Today you can and they can find you. Isis has used facebook, twitter, google, and the worldwide web as its command and control system. The violence in isis propaganda is enhanced by artful editing, special effects, and powerful music. Some videos really are like small films, done with real skill. Ironically, it is the barbarism that makes these clips go viral. No one has ever seen anything like this. Most of us look at this, and this, and wonder how it could possibly attract recruits. But for some young men raised on violent video games and shootthem up movies, its a powerful lure. Actions speak louder than words. It is its savagery and viciousness, all of us here. We look at it, horrible and evil. Of course its evil. This is part of its strategy to convince young men and women on the fringe, who are deluded, who have no purpose in life, who suffer from torn identities, come to us. All brothers and sisters come to jihad and feel the honor we are feeling. Feel the happiness were feeling. They want killing machines, thats why you see them, you know, doing these videos and making kids watch these videos and making kids commit the crimes and kill because they are trying to establish a new generation of killers. Its the gang mentality. The gang idea is important because isis uses it to manipulate kids. A lot of the propaganda mixes the violence with scenes of camaraderie, friendship, the people in isis videos seem to be saying we did not belong where we were, but now we have found a home. A powerful message to the millions of unemployed, disconnected young muslims across the middle east. And even in countries like france and germany. Im your brother in islam here in syria. I originally come from canada. Im thinking im still dreaming. Im feeling like im still dreaming. Im feeling like im in the dream world. You have to be here to understand what im saying. And, of course, isis also manipulates us, television news. They put their videos online, we put them on television. And in a bizarre twist, isis turns around and makes clever use of what it sees on tv. This video is called victory in kobani. It glorifies the isis capture of that syrian city, while mocking president obama and other western leaders. Air power, alone, first of all, theres no military solution to isil. The angry rhetoric of cable news fits right into their script. Even with troops on the ground, we have proven we cannot defeat these people. We are so incompetent in terms of conducting a foreign policy, in terms of conducting military operation. Cnn makes an occasional appearance. Into that city of kobani. But fox news is a favorite of isis with commentators demanding boots on the ground playing into isis dreams of a grand battle against america. When it falls, by all accounts it will, the United States will look absolutely foolish for doing some pinprick strikes that had no effect on the outcome, and isis is going to come out more empowered than ever. Isis will be the big winner and the United States will be the big loser. All of it is frighteningly effective. Creating a 21st century machine designed perfectly for the young and built to recruit followers from across the world. They were raised on twitter, they were raised on youtube, they were raised on facebook. Isis is cnn to somebodys home tv. These guys are very sophisticated. Theyre a whole different generation. In just a moment, isis and the white house, the story of what we knew about the terror group and when we knew it. We failed to understand the enemy that we faced. 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Contractors brutally murdered. Their bodies burned and hung from a bridge. Four u. S. Civilians butchered, dragged through the street. This was fallujah, iraq. The year was 2004. The atrocity aroused deep american anger and brought promises of retribution. We will hunt down the criminals, we will kill them or capture them. And we will pacify fallujah. And u. S. Forces fought two long and bloody battles to retake the city. Nearly 70 americans lost their lives liberating fallujah, and hundreds more were left seriously wounded. Ten years later, fallujah falls back into the hands of an enemy. This time its isis. Just a few days after fallujah fell, the president talked about the threat from the terror group in an interview with the new yorker magazine. He said, the analogy we use around here sometimes. And i think is accurate, is if a jv team puts on lakers uniforms, that doesnt make them kobe bryant. I was disappointed. I was disappointed that he said that. I dont think he was well served. The need for intelligence surveillance. Lieutenant general Michael Flynn had a frontrow seat to the rise of isis. He led the Defense Intelligence agency until late last year. We failed to understand the enemy that we faced. Flynn says intelligence officials had warned the administration that isis was growing more dangerous before the president made his infamous jv comment. But the president has said the intelligence on isis was inadequate. Here he is on 60 minutes. How did they end up where they are in control of so much territory . Was that a complete surprise to you . Well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. You were d. I. A. At the time . Yeah. Do you think it was an intelligence failure . No, i dont. I really look at that and its easy to i mean, ill take one for the team, you know . The president has to decide who hes going to listen to and what information hes going to use. And i think that he was poorly advised to say that. The president makes no apologies for being measured and deliberate about committing u. S. Military resources. Benjamin rhodes is Deputy National security adviser and close aide to president obama. Do you think we should have been alerted to the threat that isis posed earlier . You know, its always easy to look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a specific time, the question is then, what action would that have triggered . Part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. The white house did underestimate isis. And republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president , growing increasingly strident. Our strategy will fail yet again. This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. Even former top officials in the Obama Administration had tough words. Its more than just an intelligence failure, its a policy failure as well. Of course, the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most. American boots on the ground. The United States has 3500 military advisers in iraq helping them take on isis. But the biggest underestimation was not of the strength of the selfstyle Islamic State but of the weakness of the iraqi state. In the middle of 2014 when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and ran away. Remember, this was an army that the United States had spent more than 25 billion building up, an army more than 200,000 strong. Thats more than six times the size of isis and maybe more. And it was all rendered useless against the isis assault. Why . Well, much of it can be pinned on one man. If you ask me, whats the most important factor of iraq, driver behind the resurgence of isis . I would say nuri al maliki. Nuri al maliki, the iraqi Prime Minister, whom the Bush Administration had helped put into power in 2006. I appreciate your commitment to representing the people of iraq. Back then, malikis appointment was touted by the administration as a triumphant moment for the newly democratic iraq. I appreciate you recognize the fact that the future of your country is in your hands. To ensure the success of democracy, maliki, a shiite, needed to heal the powerful schism between shiites and sunnis in iraq, but he never did. So when asked by the shiite abusers to fight against isis, the sunni soldiers and the iraqi army simply said no. For many sunnis, they looked at iranianbacked regime in baghdad and they looked at isis and some of them made the disastrous calculation that isis was the lesser of two evils. The last american soldier left the country in 2011, after the u. S. Could not Reach Agreement with maliki to maintain a military presence. The question that we ask today when people look back at that decision is what would we have done with 10,000 u. S. Troops . Would they have enforced security . And frankly would we have wanted them to be fighting in places like mosul and fallujah against isil . Republicans have criticized president obama for not leaving troops in iraq. Some have said if American Forces had stayed, there would be no isis. But emma sky believes that was never in the cards. Iraqs Prime Minister al maliki had a new set of patrons, his fellow shiites in tehran, and the mullahs made him an offer he couldnt refuse. That was part of irans deal with maliki, well give you a third term, but the conditions are, no american soldiers. That was what tehran had demanded. There was no way it would have gone through the parliament. One thing is clear, it was only iraqs army that could have stopped isis. Instead, iraqi soldiers threw down their weapons and ran. [ phone ringing ] hello . Next on blindsided. What drives these people . What makes them tick . Youll go inside the mind of a radical. Meet a man who was prepared to die for a fantasy. The idea of an islamic caliphate. The 1980s and 90s in afghanistan and pakistan were crucial years for jihad. Bin laden was there, zawahiri was there. Its where al qaeda and islamic terrorism as we know it today was born. Foreign fighters were constantly flowing in. But now, incredibly, foreign fighters are flowing in even faster to iraq and syria. An estimated 20,000 of them in total. What drives these people there . What makes them leave home to go far away and fight for an idea, a fantasy . Youre about to find out. In the days that followed 9 11, just about everyone in the world seemed to be standing with the United States, even yasser arafat. I am offering my condolences to the american president , president bush. But not this man. Im very, very sorry to your viewers for saying this, but i lacked any empathy for the victims. Maajid nawaz didnt start his life as a radical. He grew up here in essex, england. The beneficiary of a middle class upbringing. The son of hard working pakistani parents. But he didnt feel quite at home in britain and yet had no other place to call home. No community to call his own. He read for us what he wrote in his diary after seeing the towers fall. Dont you think weve been crying, too, like you are now, for years . Do you think we felt no pain as you raped and plundered our lands and bombed our cities . What lands, what cities, you ask . Your arrogance is only compounded by your ignorance. You chose your side, and we have chosen ours. Nawaz had become convinced that the world of islam was under constant and brutal attack from the west. Muslims had to fight back. Nawazs chosen army was a radical group, hizb ut tahrir. The day before 9 11, he had landed in egypt to recruit for the group, which in some ways was a forerunner to isis. Its the first Islamist Organization responsible for popularizing the notion of resurrecting a socalled Islamic State. This caliphate, socalled Islamic State is what hes been dreaming of since 1953. The trigger for nawaz was the 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 didnt 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 re