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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the Economic Club of Chicago at Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a more powerful group than al Qaeda ever did because of its money and structure.

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Hillary Clinton describes how groups like Boko Haram and ISIS use violence against women as a terror tactic.

"It's a serious threat because this is the best-funded, most professional, expansionist jihadist military force that we have ever seen," Clinton told the Economic Club of Chicago during an interview, according to the Washington Post. "This is far more advanced and far richer than al-Qaeda ever was."

She made the remarks during an interview conducted by the national co-chairman of her 2008 presidential bid, Chicago venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker.

Clinton also backed President Obama's move to begin conducting airstrikes against the group inside Iraq and Syria saying they "will attempt to launch attacks against Western targets if it has the ability to do so."

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"Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer disagrees with pundits who say Clinton made an error in critiquing the president's foreign policy.

Despite her support of the current campaign, Clinton has previously suggested that ISIS' rise was aided in part by a failure to arm the moderate Syrian opposition earlier during the country's civil war, a strategy the former secretary of state pushed for but Mr. Obama rejected.

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