feisal istrabadi, welcome back to the program. how much of a blow to i.s.i.s. was the retaking of the city of mosul? >> well, it's a huge blow because one of the ways in which i.s.i.l distinguished its brand from al quaida before was it was able to conquer and hold territory, erase an international boundary, declare a caliphate and engage in the fight against forces that regard it as infidel, and it distinguished itself in that way. now it is retreating. i lost the largest city it occupied. there are plans to make it lose raqqa an in syria and slovi to expel it from iraq. it's a huge blow to i.s.i.l. >> woodruff: what capability does it still have? >> your own reporting earlier in the program was it still is able to put on sort of the skirmish attacks, although, last week, it was able to manage to conduct an attempt at a counterattack which was repelled, of course. but the main fear that i have now is that i.s.i.l becomes a classical terrorist organization as al quaida was before, able to pull off, you know, attacks of varying size in baghdad and other places,