providence backing it and how do you explain to your followers if you are losing a battle you are also going to be blessed by god, and one thing they do is try to blame rebels or spies within their midst and execute them and this is the kind of thing we have seen along the euphrates river corridor earlier this year as they were starting to lose battles, the islamic state would start to execute their own ranks and civilians accusing them of being spies and this is consistent with their own propaganda, they can't lose a battle and it has to be because of spies in their midst, and there was a 12-hour long gun battle in a city an hour and a half south of mosul and that's part of isis, another signal that isis is probably losing or knows they are losing the fight in mosul, and they wanted to demonstrate they have the capability to lash out elsewhere, and it was an