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Been under surveillance. the man who opened fire in that cafe in sydney, australia also had been under surveillance, actually was out on bail for allegedly murdering his wife. so in all of these cases we have people who have been tracked and yet somehow manage to slip through the cracks. not very surprising that he came from a middle class or somewhat better than middle class upbringing. people being attracted to isis have to pay their own way. they are not necessarily the poor and destitute who have no jobs. these are people who are idea logically driven to join a cause, to join the caliphate...

Of the stills there, masked in black. carrying out executions the first one, the world saw, was of the journalist james foley last year. appearing publicly in a total of four execution videos. what these reports are saying is that in his, he's in his mid 20s, and he appears to have left very little trail on social media. which is interesting, because of course the u.s. and western intelligence services have been saying it is through social media they are so much able to try to track operatives of the islamic state. but apparently mohammed emwazi also known as jihadi john was not using social m...

Talk about security in the city, the faces of some of these checkpoints are changing. what that means is the more dependable, reliable security forces, the guys that won't put down their weapons and take their uniforms off are being put in place. people see that. they know that's happening. that said in the lst couple of days there's more traffic on the streets. people realizing they're not about to be overrun at the moment. we talk about bad stuff that's happened. we talk about these execution videos that isis is putting out there. but we heard today the government here saying that isis had k...

And nic, before we get to these horrendous execution videos, i heard you say the u.s. embassy there is in impenetrable. do we know how close the isis fighters are to baghdad? >> reporter: if you put a line on the map, if you did google earth and put the ruler on, if you drew it out to fallujah or the base north of back aba, you're talking 30 to 40 miles. if you're talking to an isis cell that's already in baghdad, that's building suicide bombs like the one that went off in a cafe full of shia workers on sunday morning here, killed 17, wounded 14, those kind of cells are in and armed the city. ...

Considering talks with its long-time nemesis, iran, to look for solutions here to halt this advance of isis. joining me now our senior international correspondent, arwa damon, live in erbil, iraq. and let's begin, they're brutal. these execution videos posted by this isis fighter. can you just walk me through what we're about to see? >> reporter: it's absolutely chilling, brook. we do have to warn our viewers of that, and it really leaves no question as to why these fighters, this ideology, needs to be stopped. in this video, you see a bearded man with a gun standing over five individuals on t...