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or in ethiopia and against western facts. reporter: critically injured students are airlifted to hospitals in the capital. hundreds more were traumatized in what was the deadliest ever attack on a university. kenya once again a front line state in the battle with islamists. well, one aim of the al qaeda-linked gunmen was the pull apart kenya s religion, half muslim, half christian. today they re pulling together on social media the #onekenya is trending. people here are shaken. but they re also defiant. mika? bill joe here. the shopping mall attack, they launched on the kenya shopping mall was more random, was it not, than this where willie and weer talk before about the horrible stories coming out about the gunmen going up asking, are you a christian. if they said yes they shot them
watched unfold several days ago. not clear this man was directly linked to the shopping mall attack, but said to be a major figure in the al shabaab network. what we know is that some type of fire fight, major fight erupted on the ground because the navy s.e.a.l.s had to leave the town in what they are calling, we are told, was a prudent move rather than continue to engage in this operation. there was some sort of risk, we are told, of killing some significant number of civilians, which they didn t want to do, of course. so, where it stands right now is the s.e.a.l.s don t know if they were able to kill the man they were after. they were not able to capture him. they don t know if he was killed because of the fire fight and the s.e.a.l.s decided to withdrawal. that is the language used.
so on, how does al shabaab rank here? caller: they changed their ranking by attacking, you know, a target in kenya which had numerous westerners were killed, americans were injured. you know, they had never really they never successfully attacked against a western target as it were before. they certainly tried to attack in denmark and tried to kill a cartoonist who did a cartoon of mohammad. that didn t work. the kenyan attack put them on another level. it would be easy for the president to order this operation as a legal matter because once you announce you are part of al qaeda and you attack or try to attack american targets, you put yourself in a different category than previously. peter, stand by. barbara starr, are you there?