article_snippet.sent: CNN)A year after ISIS became a household name in America, using brutality and savvy propaganda to challenge al Qaeda and al Qaeda affiliates for jihadist adherents, U.S. prosecutions of would-be recruits have exploded.
article_snippet.sent: But complicated, manpower-intensive investigations also highlight the unique challenges that ISIS poses in comparison with al Qaeda, which has attracted fewer U.S.-based recruits.
article_snippet.sent: people radicalized on people own from consuming ISIS propaganda from YouTube videos and other social media.
article_snippet.sent: But once those initial Western recruits arrived, living in the self-declared ISIS caliphate spanning parts of Syria and Iraq, those initial Western recruits started to directly entice friends and other contacts back home to join those initial Western recruits.
article_snippet.sent: In Minnesota, nine men have been charged as part of an alleged cell of recruits linked to American Abdi Nur, who turned up fighting with ISIS in Syria in 2014 and began to appeal to his friends to come to the Middle East.
article_snippet.sent: It's a phenomenon observed in Norway and other European nations, where clusters of young people have been lured to ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: And the ISIS recruiters have an easier path to drawing supporters than al Qaeda has had.
article_snippet.sent: Minneapolis men allegedly trying to join ISIS highlight role of American recruiter .
article_snippet.sent: How ISIS is luring Westerners .
article_snippet.sent: Before ISIS, investigators could often focus on radicalizing mosques and clerics to figure out those networks.
article_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda recruitment focused on attracting radicals who were motivated to join the fight to protect Islamic holy lands.
article_snippet.sent: Much of Al Qaeda recruitment occurred in countries with strong conservative Islamic histories, including Saudi Arabia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.
article_snippet.sent: And people attracted to ISIS marketing run the gamut from rich to poor, educated to dropout, male to female, teenaged to middle-aged.
article_snippet.sent: There are signs Western recruits have risen to high levels in the ISIS organization, with Western recruits influence reflected in the latest propaganda, counterterrorism and intelligence officials said.
article_snippet.sent: Who has been recruited to ISIS from the corrupt West?
highlights_snippet.sent: The recruiting tactics used by ISIS differ from those traditionally employed by al Qaeda .
  