and for some time now, it seems like they were on their heels in the southern part of the country. does this seem to you a resurgence of them or just a sign that they've always been out there just cooling their heels for a while? >> well, al shabaab have been on the lower rung of the hierarchy for al qaeda. recently we have to consider this incident in a long line of a chain of events where al qaeda are regrouping. i believe we have prematurely declare wed have defeated al qaeda. and of course we have got to understand that al qaeda achieved more thanity could have dreamed of under bin laden's leadership. and now with this attack in kenya, somalia's al shabaab have