0:00:02 > 0:00:05Contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06'Iraq is being torn apart.'
0:00:06 > 0:00:08- Come with me!- Down here!
0:00:08 > 0:00:12'Tonight, Panorama reports from the heart of the fighting.'
0:00:15 > 0:00:17'The battle is against ISIS,
0:00:17 > 0:00:20'a brutal jihadi group that grew out of Al-Qaeda.'
0:00:20 > 0:00:22SHOUTING
0:00:22 > 0:00:24'It's declared an Islamic state.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27'We hear the story of ISIS from the inside.'
0:00:27 > 0:00:29This is the place.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31- TRANSLATION:- They put two corpses down there
0:00:31 > 0:00:33and the heads up there.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36TRANSLATION: You're either with me or against me.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38If you are against me, you will be killed.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42- TRANSLATION:- We would receive orders to kill a specific person.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49'But could the conflict eventually spill out of the Middle East?
0:00:49 > 0:00:51'We talk to a British jihadi.'
0:00:51 > 0:00:55If you don't leave our Muslim brothers around the globe
0:00:55 > 0:00:57and mind your own business,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59then you can expect these attacks.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28We are in Northern Iraq.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30These are the Kurds.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33They have their own military
0:01:33 > 0:01:35and they're in their own fight with ISIS.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40The General is talking to a tribal sheik
0:01:40 > 0:01:43who's pledged loyalty to the jihadis.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45"Turn over the foreign fighters in your town,"
0:01:45 > 0:01:48the General says, "or there will be blood."
0:02:06 > 0:02:09The General's appeal fails.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16In the next town, they're Sunni Muslim.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18They've joined with ISIS
0:02:18 > 0:02:21to rebel against Iraq's Shia Muslim-led government.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28THEY SHOUT
0:02:30 > 0:02:34ISIS is a Sunni jihadi group that grew out of Al-Qaeda
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and which has now eclipsed it in power and violence.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Kurd and Arab,
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Sunni and Shi'ite -
0:02:43 > 0:02:48Iraq is tearing itself apart along its many fault lines.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50ISIS is the catalyst.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00- How are you?- How are you, mate?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04'Lahur Talabani grew up a refugee from Saddam Hussein
0:03:04 > 0:03:07'in Beckenham, south London.'
0:03:07 > 0:03:11We were under attack from different directions last night.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14You saw the fighting when it started
0:03:14 > 0:03:17until five o'clock in the morning, from all directions.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23'Now, the former business management student
0:03:23 > 0:03:26'is head of Kurdish intelligence.'
0:03:26 > 0:03:28What kind of enemy is ISIS?
0:03:28 > 0:03:31A very dangerous enemy.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35An enemy that has attracted forces from all over the world,
0:03:35 > 0:03:37that have come here to fight.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40And they are willing to die for what they believe in.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46A Kurdish unit moves carefully into the small-town of Jalawla.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49ISIS wants it for their new Islamic state
0:03:49 > 0:03:51declared across parts of Iraq and Syria.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55The Kurdish fighters, known as Peshmerga,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57are trying to stop them.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05THEY CALL TO EACH OTHER
0:04:09 > 0:04:12The battle is over by the time we arrive.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17But the Kurdish fighters believe
0:04:17 > 0:04:21ISIS reinforcements are being sent to the outskirts of town.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23CHATTER
0:04:25 > 0:04:28OK, I think we need to be out on foot. Yeah, turn around.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Let's get into cover, here, and then we get out on foot.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Don't point...Ah, down, down, down!
0:04:39 > 0:04:43GUNSHOTS
0:04:43 > 0:04:44'They spot movement.'
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Get behind cover!
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Guys, come with me. Come with me, come with me!
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Down here, down here, down here.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00'Bullets come in from several different directions.'
0:05:00 > 0:05:02OK, OK, OK.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Jalawla. Jalawla!
0:05:06 > 0:05:09THEY SHOUT
0:05:14 > 0:05:17The Peshmerga thought they had secured this place,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21but they've just been told of 75 vehicles with ISIS fighters
0:05:21 > 0:05:23making their way here to try to cut them off.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27GUNSHOTS AND EXPLOSIONS
0:05:27 > 0:05:29The battle is going backwards and forwards.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Things are still very fluid, here.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35We are with half a dozen men who are trapped
0:05:35 > 0:05:37with ISIS on three sides.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You need to find the most senior commander you can find
0:05:40 > 0:05:43and get them to get the troops... Can you hear me?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45'There is growing panic.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48'They think the jihadis are coming in through the back of the building
0:05:48 > 0:05:51'and know what ISIS does to prisoners.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55'Everyone here expects to be shot or beheaded if captured.'
0:06:06 > 0:06:09FRANTIC SHOUTING CONTINUES
0:06:09 > 0:06:11'This man was shot through the leg.'
0:06:16 > 0:06:19It turns out this was not the main ISIS force,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22but a smaller attack.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25THEY CONTINUE TO SHOUT
0:06:27 > 0:06:30'The group attracts foreign jihadis from around the world.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34'Here, the Peshmerga think ISIS was trying to recover
0:06:34 > 0:06:37'the bodies of foreigners so they couldn't be identified.'
0:06:39 > 0:06:42The bodies that we captured, none of them were Iraqis.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45And then we noticed that they were trying very, very hard
0:06:45 > 0:06:48not to leave anybody behind, even their dead.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51The ones that they did leave behind, as many as they could,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54they would destroy their faces.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57They would just empty a whole magazine of bullets
0:06:57 > 0:06:59into their faces and completely destroy their faces
0:06:59 > 0:07:02so we wouldn't be able to recognise them.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04We know there are...the numbers of Brits
0:07:04 > 0:07:08that have joined the fight in Syria
0:07:08 > 0:07:11with ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra
0:07:11 > 0:07:13is around 400.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17We believe around 200 of those guys are still amongst those forces.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Do you think there are Brits on this front line?
0:07:19 > 0:07:23We haven't seen any evidence, even though, yesterday,
0:07:23 > 0:07:26one of the casualties of ISIS that was killed,
0:07:26 > 0:07:28he was wearing these particular gloves
0:07:28 > 0:07:32which is Gold's Gym in Surrey, I think.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Very particular gloves that they sell in that gym!
0:07:36 > 0:07:40So he was a foreign fighter, Arab nationality.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47ISIS has swept over a third of Iraq.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Mosul, Tikrit,
0:07:51 > 0:07:53the approaches to Baghdad.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57They now call themselves simply The Islamic State.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00The captured towns are majority Sunni.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02CARS TOOT
0:08:02 > 0:08:05GUNSHOTS
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Some Sunni tribes helped ISIS
0:08:11 > 0:08:15because of what they say is years of persecution
0:08:15 > 0:08:17by Iraq's Shi'ite-led government.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Another reason a few thousand ISIS fighters
0:08:21 > 0:08:25were able to put 100,000 Iraqi troops to flight...
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Terror.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33This is The Islamic State's own Twitter feed.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41ISIS claims it executed more than 1,700 prisoners
0:08:41 > 0:08:42in the town of Tikrit.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48We found a deserter,
0:08:48 > 0:08:53whose whole battalion fled without firing a single shot -
0:08:53 > 0:08:55ISIS still 20 miles away.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- TRANSLATION:- The morale of the soldiers was shaken.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05We were serving at checkpoints.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07The other troops withdrew from their areas,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11even the high ranking officers and the Lieutenant Colonel left.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16The Sunni troops did not want to fight other Sunnis.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23The Shia soldiers had no interest in defending Sunni towns.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- TRANSLATION:- The Army is not to blame.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28It's the officials who are responsible
0:09:28 > 0:09:31for putting the Army in such a situation.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34We wanted to fight but when we saw what was happening,
0:09:34 > 0:09:36the troops just collapsed.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Some soldiers cried.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40They asked, "Why is this happening?"
0:09:40 > 0:09:44Nobody was shooting at us, the enemy was nowhere near.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Some Sunnis support ISIS
0:09:48 > 0:09:52but the Iraqi army's humiliation leaves millions of others trapped
0:09:52 > 0:09:55under a new and terrifying regime.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02We can't travel to The Islamic State to see conditions for ourselves.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05They arrest Western journalists as spies.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10Instead, we're heading into parts of Syria that WERE held by ISIS
0:10:10 > 0:10:14to find out what life is like under their rule.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16That journey starts in Turkey.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Turkey's border with Syria is a hinterland of safe houses
0:10:21 > 0:10:23and supply lines.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's been used as a rear operating base
0:10:25 > 0:10:28by both the Free Syrian Army and by ISIS.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31The Islamic State is no longer welcome here
0:10:31 > 0:10:35and so you can find many Syrians who are in hiding from ISIS.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44We are meeting an ISIS defector.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Why do you have to disguise yourself for this interview?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- TRANSLATION:- ISIS's brutality terrifies everyone.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Not only me.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01My family, my cousins, my siblings are all still there.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I fear for them all.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06HE CONTINUES IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:11:11 > 0:11:13'He joined ISIS as they were better armed
0:11:13 > 0:11:17'and because he was attracted by the promise of an Islamic state.'
0:11:20 > 0:11:24- TRANSLATION:- In the beginning, ISIS were kind to the population
0:11:24 > 0:11:27in order to attract people to their cause.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29And they provided them with what they needed
0:11:29 > 0:11:32in order to appeal to them quickly.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35HE CONTINUES
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- TRANSLATION:- Once ISIS succeeded in attracting people,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43they changed dramatically from being good
0:11:43 > 0:11:45to being cruel and harsh.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53You are either with me or against me.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55There is nothing in between.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58If you are against me, then you will be killed.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06He left because he was sickened by what he witnessed.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Fearing for his own life, he knew he had to flee.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- TRANSLATION:- My last meeting was with the emir about some business.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20On his way out, I shot him three times.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24I heard him scream and then I packed my rifle and ran.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27I tried not to leave any traces behind me.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Then, with the help of some people on the border,
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I was able to get into Turkey.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40This is the road to Syria.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42We're crossing into territory
0:12:42 > 0:12:45that until recently would have been impossible to visit.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53Half an hour over the border is the town of Azaz.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56ISIS seized control here last September...
0:12:57 > 0:13:00..and implemented strict sharia,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02or the ISIS version of it.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- Salam.- Salam.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07The jihadis used the town's main roundabout
0:13:07 > 0:13:09to carry out floggings and beheadings.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- Salamu Aleykom.- Wa Alaykom el Salam.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17'We meet a resident who saw it all.'
0:13:17 > 0:13:20So this is the place?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22HE BEGINS RESPONDING
0:13:24 > 0:13:27TRANSLATION: They brought four men from the Free Syrian Army
0:13:27 > 0:13:29and they slaughtered them here.
0:13:32 > 0:13:37They put two corpses down there and the heads up there
0:13:37 > 0:13:40and then left them from Friday morning prayers
0:13:40 > 0:13:41till the afternoon.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Under ISIS, people were flogged for infringing the dress code
0:13:48 > 0:13:50or for smoking.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55These nightmarish scenes are difficult to watch.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58The jihadis sentence their enemies to death.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04A ghoulish crowd watched the spectacle.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10TRANSLATION: It's utterly shocking.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Slaughtering a human being, to them, is like killing a bird.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17THE CROWD CHEERS
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Not only that but they also mutilate the corpses.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22They slaughter them,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25then hang the bodies up for four or five hours in the sun.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Did most people in Azaz support this practice?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Because I've seen video of people cheering,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32people are happy that this is happening.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34TRANSLATION: Nobody dared to say a word
0:14:34 > 0:14:37because they were scared of being killed.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Anybody could be falsely accused of working for the FSA
0:14:40 > 0:14:41and be slaughtered.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48That's not an Islamic act, nor the actions of a human being.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52The West seems to think all Syrians are extremists. No!
0:14:52 > 0:14:55We are very moderate in our Islam.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56ISIS could do this
0:14:56 > 0:14:59because their view of Islam is actually shared by some people here?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Do you agree with that?
0:15:00 > 0:15:05No, they are not popular at all.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08We completely disassociate ourselves from them.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12They imposed themselves on us using military force.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14So what we're hearing from the gentleman is an account of how
0:15:14 > 0:15:16ISIS ruled with the whip and with the sword.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19And that comes from their very literal interpretation of Islam.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22They wish to go back to what they see as a more pure form
0:15:22 > 0:15:24of Islam, from the Prophet's time.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27It may also be part of a very deliberate strategy.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30What took place here was an attempt
0:15:30 > 0:15:33to break society in order to re-make it.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36You need a lot of violence and a lot of bloodshed to do that.
0:15:40 > 0:15:46When ISIS were driven out of Azaz in March, they left behind mass graves.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53We obtained video taken from the mobile phone of an ISIS fighter.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55It shows those they've killed.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59THEY CONVERSE IN THEIR OWN TONGUE
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Their bodies are dragged along like sacks of rubbish.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13- TRANSLATION:- The Islamic State is using Islam
0:16:13 > 0:16:15as a cover for their extremism.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20No freedom of opinion exists.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Any legitimate Islamic practice that might threaten the goals
0:16:23 > 0:16:26of the Islamic State is considered a sin.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32They practice Islam in appearance only, and to control minds.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45The thought that such a state could become a permanent fixture
0:16:45 > 0:16:49in the Middle East horrifies Iraq's neighbours, and the wider world.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59We arrive in Baghdad to find out how Iraq's government is fighting back.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Government troops are on the offensive around the capital.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Inside, the city is on edge.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15Tensions between Sunni and Shia are stretched to breaking point.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33The Iraqi police believe that hidden amongst the Sunni population
0:17:33 > 0:17:37are more than 2,000 ISIS sleeper agents.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49The general in charge of finding them tells me
0:17:49 > 0:17:51they've arrested a very dangerous man.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56The deputy commander of an ISIS hit squad.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10- TRANSLATION:- During this whole period we didn't do much.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14We were dormant this last year. We were told to sit and wait.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18But about four or five months ago,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21I received orders to reorganise and activate our cell.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27We would receive orders to kill a specific person.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34We carried out the murder of a member of a local council.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Was there any preparation of car bombs or was it all assassinations?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45No, we don't use car bombs. We conduct assassinations.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49However, we did use a sticky bomb to assassinate the city councillor.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51We also used a sticky bomb in the assassination
0:18:51 > 0:18:53of a Sunni tribal leader.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Are you paid a salary or do you do this out of belief, these actions?
0:18:57 > 0:19:01No, we don't do this for money. It's for our faith.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03However, there is a salary too.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05The going rate for an ISIS killer?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08About 250 a month.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14I told our commander that I wanted to leave the group.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18He replied that nobody can quit this kind of work.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Shi'ites at prayer.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34To defeat ISIS, the country will have to come together.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37But people are retreating into their own communities.
0:19:43 > 0:19:49After worship, men flock to join up. But not the police or army.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51The Shi'ite militias.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Shield of the Message is one of those militias.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Shi'ites have been killed in large numbers by ISIS.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06This is the response.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09These are the true believers.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Unlike the Iraqi Army, these men will stand and fight.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22They take us to the nearest front line
0:20:22 > 0:20:28half an hour out of Baghdad on the road to Fallujah.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33This is where ISIS will have to be stopped.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37THEY CHANT
0:20:44 > 0:20:47No-one can doubt their fervour.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48But they're volunteers.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52Labourers, businessmen and taxi drivers.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57These men are entrusted with the western defence of the capital.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58They say they fight for the state
0:20:58 > 0:21:01but they speak the language of jihad.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- TRANSLATION:- We are committed to God,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07his prophet and his family, in death or in victory.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10With the help of God, let the rats hear us.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Let ISIS hear us.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16We are not the ones who fled from Mosul. We are here to die.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19We don't want salaries. We don't want anything.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23We came here for martyrdom. We came here for martyrdom.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25CHANTING RESUMES
0:21:30 > 0:21:33They insist they will fight for nation, not sect.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38But to Sunnis, nothing's more frightening
0:21:38 > 0:21:40than a Shi'ite militia on the march.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46CHANTING CONTINUES
0:22:00 > 0:22:02The coffin is for a Sunni man.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05He went to hospital with a cousin.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09Both were abducted right under the noses of the security forces.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13His family blame a Shi'ite militia.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22- TRANSLATION:- He told me that he was scared of going to hospital.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24He said, "You stay here and work
0:22:24 > 0:22:27"because I'm worried something might happen."
0:22:27 > 0:22:28That's what he said.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35When we tried to call them at around two o'clock,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38their mobiles were switched off.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41We went to find them and we found them in Al-Hurya.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47They'd been killed.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54No-one, including the police, can say anything to them.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57No-one can hold them to account.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59We're even afraid of them in the streets.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05But they are not, yet, turning to ISIS.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10- TRANSLATION:- ISIS doesn't even represent
0:23:10 > 0:23:1110% of the revolutionaries.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17If you give them their rights, this whole thing would be over.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Even a goat herder knows this.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28The Sunnis here don't want to rebel against Baghdad, but they feel
0:23:28 > 0:23:31they can't turn to the government or to the police for help.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34So they're stuck, between the Shi'ite militias on the one hand,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37and the jihadis of the Islamic State on the other.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49The Prime Minister they so mistrust, Nouri al-Maliki,
0:23:49 > 0:23:50trying to rally the nation.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04He is accused of running a sectarian government, of tolerating
0:24:04 > 0:24:08death squads, of keeping money and power for the Shia.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11He carries a lot of the blame.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16Maliki created a Shia-dominated state in which Sunni were marginalised.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22There are villages outside Fallujah, Sunni villages,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24where most of the young men are in jail.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30Many of them confess to capital crimes, under torture.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Sometimes they are on death row for crimes
0:24:33 > 0:24:36that somebody else has already been executed for.
0:24:37 > 0:24:42So no wonder that if you're a Sunni young man from these places,
0:24:42 > 0:24:47joining ISIS doesn't seem that much more dangerous than staying at home.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54If Prime Minister Maliki can't gain the Sunnis' confidence
0:24:54 > 0:24:56and persuade them to fight the jihadis,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59a third of the country will belong to this man.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, leader of ISIS.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17The new Caliph, as he calls himself,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20takes Friday prayers at Mosul's Grand Mosque.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25To make way for Baghdadi, ISIS killed the existing Imam,
0:25:25 > 0:25:29according to the UN, as well as a dozen other clerics.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32All refused to swear allegiance to the Islamic State.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37This sermon seems to promise global jihad.
0:25:52 > 0:25:57The "Caliph" says all Muslims should come to his new empire.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01It's thought that hundreds of young Britons have already joined ISIS.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05I spoke to one man on Skype
0:26:05 > 0:26:09who says he's a British jihadist with ISIS in Syria.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12He calls himself Abu Summayyah al Britaani,
0:26:12 > 0:26:16and says he's on the waiting list to be a suicide bomber.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Everybody's got their name on the list
0:26:18 > 0:26:22and everybody is forcing the Emir to put their name, to push it up,
0:26:22 > 0:26:25and everybody wants to fight for the sake of Allah.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29He denies that he and other foreigners in ISIS
0:26:29 > 0:26:33are being trained to carry out attacks back home.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38They've even destroyed their passports.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45But that could change
0:26:45 > 0:26:48if the West intervenes against the Islamic State.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57If the British Government commits terror against our people,
0:26:57 > 0:27:01is unjust towards our people, kills and murders and rapes our people,
0:27:01 > 0:27:06then you can expect attacks on your soil.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10If you don't leave our Muslim brothers around the globe, and
0:27:10 > 0:27:14mind your own business, and support our enemies against us, then you can
0:27:14 > 0:27:19expect these attacks, and so can America and so can any other country.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Western countries could try to avoid provoking ISIS
0:27:23 > 0:27:26and the young Muslims it's trained for martyrdom.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29But the Islamic State is determined to grow.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31A clash may be inevitable,
0:27:31 > 0:27:35says one of the world's leading experts on radicalisation.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39When we look at the overall aspirations of ISIS, it wants to take
0:27:39 > 0:27:43over the whole world and subjugate it to its version of political Islam.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46And so the real question we need to ask ourselves is that
0:27:46 > 0:27:49unfortunately at one stage or another we are going to be
0:27:49 > 0:27:51drawn into a confrontation with them.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53The issue is how long is that event horizon?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Is it 12 months, five years, ten years, 50 years?
0:27:56 > 0:27:59But at one point or another we will have to confront them.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03The West faces a decision -
0:28:03 > 0:28:07whether to confront the new Caliphate or leave it to grow.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10There are risks either way.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14For now, the war against ISIS remains in the Middle East.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16How long will it stay there?