ambassador, james moriarty. thanks so much for being with us.sense now of the reach of isis in south asia, bangladesh, india, pakistan? >> i think it is clear that isis is trying to recruit young people from particularly bangladesh but also pakistan, india, to join their movement to form what i have heard called wolfpacks in their home countries to spread the sishus ideology. >> we are learning some of the identity of the attackers there. these are people who come we are told from educated, upper middle class families. is that surprising to you knowing what you know of bangladesh? >> not really. fundamentalists have been trying to recruit. nonviolent fundamentalist groups have been recruit ing in the universities of bangladesh for a while. it is the upper middle class and middle class that spend a lot of time on the internet. it is not the villagers who don't have access to ipt net. they are the ones who have proven in the past to be sus september i belie acceptable to the message. >> we have seen other attacks on westerners. they are seemingly

ambassador to bangladesh, james moriarty. i want to go to a resident who lives down the street from where this is going on. what are you seeing? what have you heard? >> hi. by heard -- woke up in the night here in dhaka. and around 9:30 we heard what we thought were just like cars backfiring. and it turned out to be fun geyer. since then, intermittently there have been various explosions, blasts, and gunfire coming from down the street where holey is. we've also seen a lot of tactical vehicles and police cars, rapid action battalion coming down our street over the last couple of hours. >> all right. so what's a friday night typically like in dhaka? how many people would be out? is this the height of dinnertime for folks? >> yeah. when this went down, a lot of people would be out. holey is a pretty popular restaurant. and popular for this area, a lot of bangladeshis as well as expats would typically -- it's typically a very full restaurant on a friday ooechks evening. >> when it comes to this neighborhood and security patrols,