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Erbil from the countryside, you go through many many checkpoints and many security checks and they check the back of your car and they check everything. and then when you begin to get even close to this site there is more security. so i think it has everyone very very surprised that they were not only able to get into erbil, but get on top of the u.s. consulate as well. >> matt thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> and ben wedeman has spent a lot of time on the ground in iraq. as a matter of fact, he was just in erbil and he was at this consulate. so i want to bring you in now, ben. ...

Now, last autumn or rather late last summer isis was able to get near to erbil, but they've been steadily pushed back. but what today's incident underscores is that despite all of that isis still has enough supporters sympathizers perhaps sleeper cells to conduct this sort of attack. now, until today, most western diplomats i've spoken to in erbil have been confident that kurdish intelligence and security forces would be able to prevent the kind of daily car bombings and suicide attacks that you see in places like baghdad. but perhaps that confidence was premature. erin? >> all right, been. th...

He was very close when the blast went off. and matt what did you hear what did you see today? >> reporter: well the first thing is that i felt a bit of a shock wave maybe a nanosecond before i actually heard the blast. i was about 200 meters from the blast site in a residential area and as you know this area is mostly residential, but it also houses the u.s. consulate here. there there, we saw a lot of black smoke shooting up in front of the consulate. and i think everyone knew that it was probably some sort of attack or a suicide bomb something like that. >> and i know that as you said you we...

Shooting but i could hear it. as soon as that explosion went off, there was some sort of fifth shooting. we're not sure if it was going both ways or people shooting at people if it was just people shooting at the vehicle itself but something was going on. we could see that from the roof but we could see -- we could hear it from the roof but we couldn't really see it from the roof. and at the same time we had more and more black smoke rising up from the blast site. >> now, isis says matt of course this attack was on that american consulate. but as you've been pointing out, this area of erbil wa...