article_snippet: It's become a familiar story: Young people give up Young people futures in Western democratic nations to join the terrorist network establishing a self-declared Islamic state in the Middle East.
article_snippet: Analysts and U.S. officials agree: ISIS is skilled at luring Westerners, attracting far greater numbers than al Qaeda.  
article_snippet: ISIS recruits are often young -- sometimes disillusioned teenagers trying to find purpose and make ISIS recruits mark.
article_snippet: ISIS provides these deluded young men and women with an adventurous trip.
article_snippet: Recruits are also being lured by ISIS success in ISIS endeavor to create an Islamic state, analysts say.
article_snippet: The intelligence community determined that ISIS battlefield successes gave it "some recruitment success," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in September.
article_snippet: Militant groups across the Muslim world see the success ISIS has had so far in Syria and Iraq and opt to join it -- often leaving behind organizations plagued by infighting," CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen wrote in a CNN.com column.
article_snippet: While ISIS recruiting success gets a lot of attention, it is hardly drawing a huge percentage of young Westerners.
highlights_snippet: Many recruits lack a sense of belonging; some want a lavish afterlife by dying as a "martyr"
  Hundreds from the UK, Canada, France and the U.S. are suspected of going to join ISIS .