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What ISIL?s English-language propaganda tells us about its goals | Al Jazeera America
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released an English-language video to YouTube late Thursday featuring recruits that the group claims hail from Britain and Australia.
In the 13-minute video, titled "There Is No Life Without Jihad," five young men holding guns extol the virtues of the fight and encourage other Westerners to join them on the ground.
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Experts say ISIL's expanding array of slick English-language magazines, videos and infographics — which proliferate quickly and widely online in multiple languages and countries — is about more than recruitment. It also reveals how ISIL is trying to cast itself to a global audience as more than a formidable armed group with foreign recruits, but an organization it hopes will be seen as capable of leading a state.