&gt; He said that he learned their ultimate goal has nothing to do with our culture or freedom. They believe armageddon is coming, that it is literaly going to be a big battle in a particular town in Syria near the Turkish border, and that the West is the enemy (descendants of the Roman empire) that their Moslem army must defeat.<p>While I don&#x27;t doubt that that is what was revealed to him while he was captive, I will note that there are three potentially very different things that that could be, that can be very hard to distinguish:<p>1) The actual goals of the Daesh leadership,<p>2) The propaganda the Daesh leadership uses to motivate its foot soldiers,<p>3) Deliberate fabrications presented by captors to captives for propaganda, misinformation, or other purposes.