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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. how significant do you think this attack is? reporter: erin it definitely shows that after almost daily coalition air strikes going back to last autumn isis is still capable of conducting this type of brazen broad daylight attack on such a high level, high-profile u.s. target as the u.s. consulate in erbil.
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. thank you very much. and now i want to bring in phil mudd former cia counterterrorism official. he managed the iraq analysis at the cia. and retired general, james spider marks, who served as the senior intelligence officer in combat during the iraq war.
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 were only you know just over 600 feet away when you felt this. then you actually heard it. i know after that shock wave you then ran to the roof. what happened then? from there, now, we had already started hearing the shooting going on in the street. i didn t actually see the
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 was such that they didn t even need to get to the consulate, if they were trying to kill americans. no the consulate itself had a high wall. it has a lot of security. most security you actually see uniformed kurdish police officers. it has concrete barriers that do a zig zag if they want to come into the area. it s very very secure. but immediately across the