carbon dioxide bought area. anne thompson, thanks very much. any time. good to see you. learning a lot more about the story taken in this mall attack. the man reaching out to save the little girl is kenyan. the little girl is 4 years old, portia walton from north carolina. katherine walton s three children caught in the cross fire in the mall. the man is being called a hero. he said he did what any human being would have done. he wanted to know what happened at the westgate mall was not representative of all muslims. a broadcaster said 4-year-old portia walton was a brave little girl, running as she was told to do by her mother. could you please ask the kid to run towards us. i have to admit this little girl is a very brave girl. he used to be really rough around the edges,
nairobi represents the worst face. but what we have to make sure is that those threats remain regionally focused and not towards the west and the united states. al-shabaab has claimed that some americans participated in the mall attack. but there s been no evidence of that so far. we don t have any ver final information that would indicate one way or another whether americans were involved. kenya s grief continues. as people here found comfort in stories of survival and powerful images of heroic rescues and lives saved. the attack on the kenyan mall has raised questions about the role extreme militants will play in the region in the future in 2008, journalist amanda linhout travelled to somalia to report on the country s civil war and famine. on the her fourth day in the country, she and a photo journalist she was traveling with were abducted.
tonight s going to be a good night tonight s that night let s live it up welcome back, everyone. this week s headlines were dominated by the mall attack in kenya. as weighty as the week s news was, there was also lighter moments to lift the gravity of the difficult situations. here s friday s rewind. all of a sudden heard a loud explosion followed by a few gunshots. i was able to sprint out of the cafe and ran across the mall. i took the blood i was covered with and put it on my face so when they case there, it seem like i was dead. i would like to say to american people, i bring peace and friendship from iranians to americans. the roadblocks may prove to be too great, but i firmly
something like this is unlikely in the united states? i think it is unlikely. i think it s unlikely by those who left the united states to go and fight with al shabaab. what you worry about is a small cell here in the united states radicalized over the internet. we ve seen this happen with al awlaki when he was alive. preacher raddalizing. see, that s what i worry about. truthfully, anderson, soft target attacks, whether it s malls, hotels, that kind of attack has long been the focus of the fbi sector to work with those targets. the hard-nosed targets to make people more aware so they watch for suspicious behavior, so you try to disrupt that. fran townsend, peter bergen, steve moore, thanks for being on. i appreciate that. as we said, there is no official authentication that samantha lewthwaite known as the white widow was involved in that mall attack but there is growing concern about it. if the notion of a female
suburban town, a mother with a number of children suddenly becomes the biggest kingpin in the franchise in africa, how does that make sense? you think she may have deceived you? i don t know. i m being perfectly honest. i don t know. let s go live to cnn terrorism analyst, paul crookshank. there s no evidence the white widow had anything to do with the kenyan mall attack, none that we know of. explain what s behind this new alert. well, that s absolutely right, jake. the kenyans have not offered any evidence to prove that she had a role in this attack and al shabaab on what appears to be its official twitter account has denied that any women at all were involved in the attack. this may actually be linked to the intense media speculation over the past few days that that s the reason that the kenyans are perhaps taking this step now.