The Challenges in Combating ISIS and Tracking "Known Wolves"

To the Point

KCRW

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4.4 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Both sides in the war on terror are using social media. The Islamic State produces highly sophisticated recruiting videos -- and law enforcement can monitor the people who watch them. But that doesn't make preventing terrorist actions an easy job. We hear about technology, manpower and civil rights.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm a Rominaldi host of To the Point in Which Way, L.A.
0:02.8	And thanks so much for listening to our programs.
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0:27.1	From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.
0:34.9	The Known Wolves of International Terror.
0:41.5	Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.
0:45.4	A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.
0:48.0	By monitoring social media, investigators around the world have discovered hundreds of
0:52.4	thousands of wannabe terrorists.
0:56.2	Does that mean atrocities can be prevented?
1:02.2	Last week, two men were arrested with plans to board planes just because they wanted to join ISIS.
1:05.9	How was it legal to intervene before they'd done anything wrong?
1:10.8	Should the civil rights of suspects be suspended for the human rights of potential victims.
1:11.3	Counterterrorism officials call that the latest challenge with half the war on terror,
1:16.0	now being fought on the battlefield of the media.
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