train with the right weapons and tactics and they couldn't get to the scene for many hours. in fact a politician who went to tour the scene got there before them. journalists driving from nairobi got to the scene before them. and in those hours, those again men were able to work with inpunty, a security analyst i spoke to said, you know, you've never going to save everyone in an instance like this but you definitely don't want all of this time elapsing to give the gunmen the time to do their terrible work. >> the suspected mastermind, mohamed mohamud, it's reported that he's the son of a government official. >> reporter: well that's not quite right. mohamed mahmud is a mastermind terrorist in charge of the operation in cakenya. the son of a gift official was one of the leading gunmen in the