saddam, it was a fairly significant thing. in terms of practicality he was not a significant member of the islamic state. he worked with a group alongside them. basically, i think he turned into somewhat of an irrelevant figure. he was also quite old, 75 years old. mitch, thanks for that. good to see you this morning. thank you so much for having me. let s bring in cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling as well. let s start with isis claiming responsibility for the attack in afghanistan and the u.s. consulate in erbil. do you get the sense or any way to definitively determine whether it was isis itself or lone wolf groups? well christi, in afghanistan, what i would suggest is, there are a lot of younger elements of the taliban who see the downgrading of the taliban with afghan security forces that are now being recruited by isis to
blew himself up in front of a bank in jalalabad. that s about 150 miles south of the city of the kabul. investigators believe they were targeting government workers picking up paychecks. earlier today, they re vowing to take down terrorists that she says is using blood as a proxy war. we ll have more in a moment. to another developing story in iraq this hour. isis is claiming responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack near the u.s. consulate in the kurdish iraqi city of erbil. officials say at least four people were killed. 18 injured in that blast. but all u.s. consulate personnel are safe and accounted for. let s bring in mitch pathero our bureau chief live from erbil. mitch, what else do we know about the blast? well, what it seems is yesterday about 5:42 local time,