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Witnesses say the attackers were shouting alla akbar and claim the attack was for syria. there are reports of other deadly attacks including another cafe and shopping mall but were having trouble getting hard information concerning the cafe. there is word the mall attack may have been a false alarm altogether. we have team fox coverage, a correspondent from global radio news is live in front of the theater where the worst attacks took place. and we have response if the white house and concerns a...

Some of our rights to be protected from the terror within. >> its more inconvenient to be dead than surveilled. in terms of once the folks have become radicalized in a red online how to carry-on an attack. you spent a lot of time protecting folks. how difficult is to protect the soflt targets. we saw the mall attack in kenya. the latest attack at the university. is there a way to protect the soft target from the attacks or not? >> theres a way to protect. one term you use is eliminate the threat...

Sony is monitoring the latest for us. this is just such a horrific story, especially considering what the people of kenya went through with the mall attack and now this. >> it has been a sad day yesterday for kenya. it was as you say, more like a replay of what happened only worse this time for most people because a lot of these students were hopeful on how the other border towns of kenya and a lot of talk that a lesson was learned and that the security force would be swifter and more empower em...

Group which has been on the run somewhat against one of the so-called soft targets. universities shopping malls, people who are just going about their daily business and theres really no practical way to fully protect them from a terrorist attack. the white house condemning it. the president of kenya coming out, reassuring his people telling everyone to stay calm but also asking if anyone has information about the attackers to please share it. wolf? >> tell us a little more about al shabab. the ...

Kenyan coast which had a significant effect on the tourist industry. basically like the mall attack they were urban warfare style attacks they just slaughtered people. this falls in line and is very much designed to maximize media exposure and thus show a, there arent safe targets, when we think of things that are safe we think of university campuses and b, to show theyre still very vibrant in the horn of africa and particularly within kenya. >> well maximize the energy directed towards stopping...

Shooting students and seizing hostages reportedly singling out non-muslims. close to 150 people are now dead in an attack by the al qaeda linked group al shabab. on a university campus in kenya, its the same group that carried out a bloody mall attack in kenya and has called for similar attacks in the west. lets get the very latest from our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara? >> reporter: wolf, the assault went on for hours starting in the early morning when al shabab gunmen part of ...

We can. again, we have kenya developing with the hostage situation. and the situation in yemen where an al qaeda group broke into a prison released hundreds of prisoners, including a leader. senior fellow at the foundation of the defense of democracies, daveed gartenstein-ross and cnn global affairs analyst and retired delta force commander, lieutenant colonel james reese. al shabab the young branch recruiting young people we know them from the horrible mall attack in 2013 in nairobi. what do yo...

We saw that in 2013 in the west gate mall in nairobi. a similar kind of attack an attack that will certainly go on for days. the kenyan government responded to the west gate mall attack i think very incompetent. i think well see the same thing here. they dont really have kind of a u.s. style, special operations that can go in and kind of deal with this kind of thing in a timely manner. so unfortunately i think well see this operation drag out over several days carol. >> you heard what soni said....

Qaeda captives. not clear when this is going to go down. but the u.s. military said its time to get out and do it now. >> mick, does this as all come as a surprise to you given how heated things have been there in yemen? >> reporter: those special ops guys have been relatively safe working with the yemeni military in remote parts of the country in training primarily. and then the navy s.e.a.l.s were involved in some intelligence-gathering. so u.s. military drone strikes could be launched against...

Terror group al shabab believed to have masterminded that deadly mall attack in nairobi, kenya. he was hit by a drone missile in southern somalia last week. pentagon officials believe he was, quote, a key person responsible for coordinating targets in the u.s. and other interests. 67 people youll certainly recall, were killed in the attacks at west gate mall in september of 2013. and stunning new details into the investigation of millionaire murder suspect robert durst. police believe he was get...