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Huge city. and for them to take that is extraordinary. tikrit, saddam hussein's birthpla birthplace. they're in fallujah, and other places like that, knocking on the door. they're in a place that's a 45-minute drive. >> 9 million people versus what, some couple thousand militants. but the eye is on the prize, being baghdad. if you were isis, if you were this militant group, what would your targets be, typically in cases like this, it's the airport. >> yeah, absolute. and you hear isis often being described as a ragtag group of terrorists. >> do you agree with that? >> i don't think they're rag...