journalists who scrambled to cover the story. and as we know, al shabaab, this is not the first time they ve targeted the hotel. there are 45 areas in mogadishu. ours and members of parliament. their beef is simple, they want to turn all of africa in an islamic state. they appointed 300 members of parliament. struggling to hold a presidential election. this is the time that al shabaab has chosen to attack. we know from our man in mogadishu that tens of millions have been killed. 30 injured and now those terrorists are now shot dead by security people. we re waiting to see in the first hours of african troops scramble over these mps. that s a terrifying scene there. thank you. 48 minutes past the hour. one of president trump s top money men just scored a huge
about the recruitment piece here and the fact that we are hearing reports that some of these terrorists may have been americans recruited by al shabaab. that certainly has to inform the calculus here, if not change it. the fact that al shabaab has its tentacles are long enough to reach and recruit fighters from the united states, from the heartland potentially, over to somalia. yeah, although it hasn t been confirmed by the u.s. it wouldn t be surprising if there were americans involved. shabaab has been recruiting americans to somalia for a number of years, primarily a group from minnesota, somali americans from minnesota. and it s this group that has been in some circles kind of left for dead. as they got pushed out of parts of somalia, but as with these groups, they re not very good at governing but pretty good at carrying out terrorist attacks. so they may not be in charge in somalia, but they can still do attacks like this. they can still do attacks inside kenya, where they ha