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Neighborhoods inside of ramadi. when you look at isis territory lost in iraq and syria over the past year, you re talking about 40% of their territory lost. is isis on its heels? is it caliphate shrinking? isil is in a defensive crouch now. their caliphate is shrinking. you ve said it. they ve lost 40% of the territory they once held here in iraq. that s significant. isil depends on holing territories. that s what s different about them. they re not just terrorists. they want to hold ground. that s also vulnerability and something we ve been attacking. what about in syria? well, in syria, too, we have less of a relationship with the ground forces there in syria. so they ve lost, the estimates vary somewhere between 10% and 20% of the territory they once held in syria. but the estimates are a little bit tougher to get our hands around. we re starring to build ....
Yesterday and the larger, broader plot they believe is part of europe. how seriously are they taking that? and is it connected? reporter: there is no evidence at this point that there is any connection whatsoever to that alert several days ago that went out in vienna when a friendly intelligence service told austrian authorities there was some concern about a number of individuals who might be back in europe and who might pose a risk. that kind of chatter is constantly coming in to european intelligence services. much of it from the americans. it s difficult for them to evaluate but obviously post-paris they can t take any risk. but it may well be this is a separate threat which they thwarted here in belgium, more of a home grown threat inspired but not directed by isis. it comes at a time, don, where there s an unprecedented concern right across europe, including here in brussels about the terrorist threat to europe that ....
Flows back to syria and iraq that they saw in the paris plot. this is more like a san bernardino-type plot where the inspiration comes from isis. but the plot which they have uncovered and which they have thwarted was to attack a new year day celebrations here in brussels, iconic sites in brussels, tourist attractions in brussels. belgian media also now reporting that a police headquarters just off the central square, the grand place was also going to be a target. not clear how far advanced this plot was. the police did not find weapons or explosives. that suggests that they hadn t got to the final stages of planning, don. i want to the ask you this. i know you ve been meeting with belgian counterterrorism officials on the threat and how seriously they take this. i m wondering if they think it s connected. we were talking about vienna ....
Isis is pivoting towards launching attacks against the european countries that are targeting isis as part of the anti-sisco list. belgium is one of those countries, they re flying air sorties over iraq. isis have called for attacks against belgium and many other european countries. this comes a few weeks after this capital was essentially closed down for several days because of a terrorism alert that went out here. they went up to maximum alert. i m also finding out why that happened. it was because there was a text message that was intercepted on that day, november 20, a week after the paris attacks. and that text message suggested that there was a possibility of a terrorist attack here in brussels within a day. they have a sense, back then, a few weeks ago, of a really imminent threat against the capital. eventually they were able to lower that threat level. ....