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Strikes, how do you fight that from the inception? bob, when you look at kenya, right, the horrific attack this week 147 people killed even after u.s. drone strikes took out the plotters from al shabaab that planned the westgate mall attack in cainkenya, that didn't do anything to spurn this attack. is there a better way? >> you know there isn't a better way. i suppose you can put troops on the ground but we're not doing that in kenya and somalia. these organizations you can decapitate but there's always a hoodership which will rise up to take over. this is an idea a virus, disease, call it wh...

Order as well as step up the antiterrorism campaign. at the end of the day, if you have an open sore like somalia, where you got the shabab armed and trained and getting combat experience you can never entirely protect yourself from attacks like these. >> what's your assessment of this? they have looked at al shabab as being weakened, try bing to compete with the likes of isis and aqap, for example, the attack 147 killed what's your assessment of the strength of the terrorist organization? >> the strength is the scariest thing seen so far with the terrorist organization since al qaeda. they ha...

In somalia. there are special forces involved as well as covert drone strikes that have taken up several leaders of al shabab. they are not nearly strong a force as it was several years ago when it held big parts of somalia as a quasi government but they are cornered and dangerous, and they have in recent months threatened u.s. targets. there's going to be a lot of cooperation in the coming months. >> they did recently threaten malls across the u.s. incoming the mall of america. what are the people in the town telling you? obviously, they are in shock, horrified, but are they defiant? >> well,...

Believed to be connected to the attack and shooters separated muslims from nonmuslims and proceeded to kill as many as the nonmuslims as they could. kenya's president called them an existential threat and vowed to continue to fight terrorism today on national television saying quote, our forefathers bled and died for the nation, and we'll do everything to defend our way of life. today, a survival of that horrific attack on campus told cnn how she hid when the attack started and stayed there for two days. >> and then me i decided to go into the wardrobe in the wardrobe. we have this wardrobe th...

Drive them through town with the crowds assembling behind that truck and showing them off as if it was to the population and in effect to prove they killed these gunmen. because in previous attacks, there have been allegations that the military let people slip by and as you say, al shabab said they'll bathe the cities of kenya with blood. after the attack they want to do more, and kenya's president saying they'll spare nothing to go after them in kenya and next door in somalia. poppy? >> what resources does the government though have to fight them effectively? because after the 67 people died ...