erbil operates almost like its own country. security by security forces there. hearing from ben wedeman's report kurdish peshmerga fighters that form the security around the u.s. consulate there. they opened fire on the car. complicated ait tack. smaller ied that went off perhaps as a diversion and then the suicide bomber comes up. thankfully didn't get close to the embassy to injurious personnel but three civilians killed in the area. for isis to strike inside cured stan inside the capital erbil so close to the u.s. embassy that's a achievement for isis. >> we've learned that isis now is asserting directly that the target was the u.s. consulate there in erbil. your reaction? >> yeah. wolf right now, we've been talking about it for the last month. isis or daesh have. getting whacked hard in north iraq by the iraqi security forces and coalition aircraft and we have seen now an