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To do perhaps through laughter is something i think worth looking at. so i don't think the answer is just not to talk about them. and i think part of the answer may very well be diffusing at least the fear message, so long as we keep an eye on what they are actually physically capable of doing, to underestimate that is very dangerous. >> and why should any of the enemies be above satire or parody. and we went through the horrors in france and with the idea that we in a free society dictate things don't like to say, that is fine but going down the road of isis or al qaeda or the folks out there...

And executions of egyptians and jordans to pallarize domestic populations. and how does that work? >> one component is speaking specifically to the sunni populations and sunni governments in neighboring states to isis's strong holds in iraq and syria. and isis wants to try to drive a wedge between those fighting isis and those who are either passively or actively supporting them and in fact their principal message, and this is their strategy, is to try to make this very much for or against so there is quote, no gray area unquote. everyone is either for or against. it is a message to weaken a c...

Jessica mcfate is research director at the institute for the study of war and recently war an op ed in the "wall street journal." and jessica, why is it important to tikrit and what are the dangers there? >> it is a sunni majority city and a capital in a sunni majority province in forthern iraq so in one sense it is a very important test of isis' defenses to see if the iraqi security forces and shia militias can overcome them but it is a very important test of whether or not iraq can prevent a sectarian fallout after such a demographic shift with the -- with a shia militia force participating ...

To spread their propaganda and as a recruiting tool so it seems counter productive to threaten twitter. but how does this fit into what they are doing with in regards to what he call the honor yor-- the outer ring. >> well in the outer ring isis is trying to inspire fear and scare everybody into not doing anything against isis and i do think this particular threat against twitter and the co-founder of twitter is part of that strategy. it is simply meant to inspire fear possibly ip spire attacks. but i think that is primarily an issue for law enforcement. >> saturday night live has people talki...

They are calling on people to kill twitter because the social media is blocking their accounts. they don't know who has posted the threat but brookings said since last fall twitter has linked 45,000 accounts to isis propaganda. 800 confirms isis members have had accounts disabled and 18,000 related accounts. mean while, overseas the iraqi military is launching a massive attack on the city of tikrit the former home town of saddam hussein in control since the summer. and this devolving fight for tikrit. and the city is a sunni majority with shiite military. and fighting with irani air support. i...