from nairobi, karen allen reports. >> is this where the attackers prayed during the waistcoat seized? siege.gate >> there was disorganization during the whole thing. there was no command when they entered. they started firing. people were screaming and running here and there. had did not know we plainclothes officers there. >> sources have told me that initial sis mission is that a british attacker involved had not been substantiated. instead, the intelligence report obtained by the bbc reveals al- shabaab recruited kenyans on their own home ground. this is the mosque where al- shabaab clerics preached just a few -- priest. -- al-shabaab clerics preached. >> maybe you don't have one. maybe you are not going to school. and you get money. according to islamic -- good financial support from al- shabaab. this neighborhood has been on a watchlist for more than a year. that, following sustained security operations in this area, that some al-shabaab operatives have escaped and gone into hiding. by april, authorities had indications that they had regrouped and were planning a terror attack in

in nairobi, investigators knew they were more than the color of their clothes. this town seems about as remote as possibly imaginable. it is here on norway's southern coast, that he spent his formative years. it was in this, the less picturesque outskirts, that we understand that he lived as a teenager with his family until a few years ago. a neighbor told us he disappeared and moved to africa. >> he took a look at the cctv footage from inside westgate. henrickson admits that he has not seen his neighbor for about four years. but he points without prompting to black shirt, apparently corroborating other sources both in norway and in kenya. >> he was talking about the koran all the time. inhere's what we know -- 1999, he fled mogadishu with his family. he returned to somalia 10 years later, hoping to build a life for himself. since then, a family member told us he kept in sporadic contact, calling him frequently and always from distant smalley mobile numbers. his last call was made this summer. he was in trouble, he said, and wanted to come home. between 20 and 3

new picturessive of the devastation inside of nairobi's westgate mall, the scene of a siege by militants. the pictures appear to show the aftermath, damage, looting. >> cameras are still not allowed inside the west gate. we have obtained these new pictures that give a sense of the terror shoppers faced that saturday afternoon as they fled through the core doors of the complex, pursued by armed attackers. shop owners have been allowed in to retrieve what is left of their merchandise. the destruction they found inside was not just to the aftermath of the battle, looters had been at work here also cleaning out shops, currency exchange offices come it even parking machines. some have blamed the looting on security forces. a committee of mps will try to establish whether the attack could have been prevented and whether the subsequent security operation was mishandled. a number of attackers probably used this sewage tunnel to make their way out of the shopping center and escape according to one security official that i spoke to was involved. he said some of them might already be in somalia. th

last night, we brought you the news that one of the gunmen in the nairobi mall attack has been identified as hassan abdi dhuhulow, a norwegian national of somali origin. at the scene of the assault, three bodies were pulled out. authorities say it is highly likely two of them were the attackers. will ross has the latest. >> the moment of sheer terror when the gunmen strolled in, firing at random shot -- women andmen, children, hiding whatever they thought they might be safe. here, one of the gunmen calmly shoots a man. another returns to fire a second shot. traces of bullets can be seen, and intense fear can be seen on the faces of those caught up in the habit. even injured children are taken away at gunpoint to be held hostage. the gunman appeared composed. lay down took time to their guns when it was time for muslim prayers. part of the building collapsed during the siege. almost four weeks on, charred bodies are being found. the bbc has learned that three bodies have been pulled out. the head of the committee investigating the attack told me that two of the bodies were likely to be tho

gabriel gatehouse, in nairobi. >> he was nicknamed the red napoleon. , the vietnamese general who helped write the french out of this country and help defeat the americans, has died at the age of 102. -- badly badly harmed armed group of guerrillas to victory. they called him the red napoleon. no formal military training your shattered the myth of imperial invincibility. a battle with the french colonial army sealed his reputation as one of the great tacticians of the 20th century. it wasn't epic struggle -- it was an epic struggle. 100 miles of trenches dug. tightening the noose colonials.french the result, still studied in military schools. speaking about it later, if the lien general spoke -- the ebui llient general spoke about the morale of his army. decades later, they would be tested against the americans. general giap's tactics were crucial. the ho chi minh trail brought supplies. in the jungle, the americans face an enemy that seem to be everywhere and yet invisible. facts he was very much a man of the people. -- >> he was very much a man of the people. i think that earned him re

>> reporter: al shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack last month on a shopping mall in nairobi, kenya, where 67 people died. it is not known if ikrima was involved. but kenyan police today released photos of two men they have identified who were part of the attack. for more for more on the men targeted by u.s. special forces over the weekend and the organizations they're a part of, i'm joined by jeremy bash. he has served as former chief of staff to both the director of the c.ia and secretary of .defense during the obama .administration. and our own margaret warner, who has been working the phones all day. thank you both. jeremy to you first, why is the yoorpted states going halfway around the world to try to grab terrorists like these two men? >> well, judy, al qaeda in east africa in the al shabaab element here is a threat to the united stitz and our allies. >> woodruff: we may have an audio problem with your microphone so we are going to try to figure that out. let's see. we're okay now, you can cope talking. >> all right, judy, the al shabaab element-- and our allies, we lo

is there any more information about whether he was involved in the nairobi mall killings? >> he was not involved in that and there was not that information in this -- we have no information that he was involved in that attack and this raid was not conducted based on the west gate mall attack. there again that's an example of the incredible precision and professionalism of our armed forces and the restraint that they showed as the department of defense has talked about with tremendous care for not inflicting civilian casualties. >> brown: is that, in fact, what happened? they ran into more than expected civilians and pulled back? >> i think as the department of defense has said: they undertook this operation to go after ançó al-shabaab commander and ultimately they made the decision to disengage and it was a decision made and an operation that was undertake within tremendous presis and care. >> brown: let me just ask you finally, briefly, how should americans understand the terrorism threat now in north africa and subsaharan africa? do these groups have the capability of

kenya struck back today at militants in somalia who attacked a shopping mall in nairobi last month. the kenyan military said warplanes bombed and destroyed a training camp used by the islamist group al-shabaab. there was no word on casualties. the mall attack left at least 67 people dead. in the north african nation of niger, rescuers have recovered the bodies of nearly 100 migrants, weeks after they died of thirst in the sahara desert. most were women and children. they were found not far from the algerian border. many of the bodies were badly decomposed, and others had been eaten by jackals. northern niger lies on a major corridor for illegal migration. a federal appeals court today upheld new york city's "stop-and-frisk" py icby blocking a lower court ruling against it. in august, federal district judge shira scheindlin found police have illegally targeted minorities, and ordered major changes. the appeals court stayed that ruling, and removed the judge from the case for giving press interviews that answered her critics. airline passengers will soon be allowed to use tablet compu

they accused police of carrying out the shootings as retaliation for the siege at a nairobi shopping mall that killed 67 people. a somali islamist group has claimed responsibility for the mall attack. the communist general who successfully battled french forces and the u.s. in vietnam, has died. vo nguyen giap was the last of vietnam's old guard revolutionaries. in 1954, at dien bien phu, giap effectively ended more than 70 years of french colonial rule. he went on to fight american forces, and ultimately conquered south vietnam after the u.s. withdrew. more than a million of his own troops died in the process. vo nguyen giap was 102 years old. >> woodruff: still to come on the "newshour": the tragic tale of migrants fleeing the african continent; the digital currency known as bitcoin; twitter goes public; the man who saved the government $1 billion. plus, david brooks and e.j. dionne. >> woodruff: we return now to italy where after thursday's migrant boat shiprwreck, hundreds are feared dead and search efforts have been suspended. we have a report narrated by jonathon rugman of "ind