thomas. >> move forward. randall pinkston? washington. thank you. >>> former u.s. ambassador to syria, robert ford is warning of the that isil phrases. he spoke to ray suarez on this week's "talk to al jazeera"? >> i hope people watching the program understand the threat that the islamic state poses, not just to people in mosul or people in baghdad, but, especially with the vacuum that has opened up in eastern syria, we now have a large space of territory. historically, in arab history, it was sort of one desert entity called al jazeera, but that is now controlled largely by this extremist islamic estate group and places like sammali and yemen and mali and afghanistan is a warning that they can use that open space to bring in people to train, to prepare for operations outside of al jazeera, outside of syria and iraq, whether it be against targets in western europe or north america, in the middle east. it's really a danger to everyone. >> you can see the entire interview coming up at 5:00 p.m. eastern on "talk to al jazeera." joining us now is jamie terebet, an al jazeera digital reporter and a former npr baghdad correspond he want. thank you for bei