That awkward time in the history of mankind when the "brainwash" of an Islamist group is stupendously superior to the CIA's own MK-Ultra.

CIA would use covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects' consent to create soldiers who would follow orders without question and carry out missions without conscious awareness. 

Their own reports confirmed their methods yielded no successful results and were a failure.

And here you have a group seemingly using a state of the art super advanced telepathic technology in an age when 4G wasn't even the norm, summoning and captivating the heart and soul of a total foreigner living in a land 8,500 km away.

What black magic does this group of black flag bearers possess that's so mighty it congragated the mightiest of nations on earth to seek them out?  

What is it our supreme government leaders know about this mystery that we don't?