abdi ismail samatar is a scholar and writer.rofessor of the department of geography, environment & society at the university of minnesota. and amanda sperber joining us from nairobi, kenya, a freelance journalist who splits her time between nairobi and mogadishu, somalia. when we come back, a lot is toog set of the me campaign online. but overall, it is being attributed to the wrong person. we have the originator of that campaign in our studio. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: courtney love said this week her 2005 public warning to women about serial predator harvey weinstein got her blacklisted by the powerful hollywood telling agency creative artist agency, writing "although i was not one of his victims, i was eternally banned by caa for speaking out against harvey weinstein raped." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we talk about the latest news right now. once all the allegations are not being made against disgraced -- thrusting his genitals. he tried

i we spoke to an eyewitness called abdi he told us how people were scared but had to remain quiet says no one me if the shooter was still around at the time i was actually working security at the. capitol as i walked away from my post which i'm glad that i and where i was supposed to be standing was actually there for me it was in front of the main stage where the jury of the stuff was happening and. i left my post and i remember walking towards my friends when i heard the first round of gunshots and i thought to myself that it was the music but when the second round of gunshots came it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messing up. once i heard that and i seen people started running i completely just dropped everything and just ran. there was police officers maturity is everywhere i actually ran into a complex and just remember going inside this guy's house and there was a whole bunch of people already in there and they had all the lights turned off and they were telling everyone to be quiet because it was still nearby and we didn't know if the shooter is walking a

and pain that has been extremely traumatic abdi thank you very much indeed for your thoughts i say thank you. the bronx have a great night. when we can also show you another video from inside the concert venue that's appeared online a word of warning that you might find it disturbing. that was . cut. cut was a guy was the guy i. i i was i. was. it was. well let's get some insight now on the situation from roger gray a former police officer roger thank you very much indeed for joining us well i think the key question that everybody's asking now is what do you think the motive could be the police are saying it's a lone wolf attack what do you think. well i think it's probably right it is a lone wolf or tank generated five was it ever a grievance or perceived or real that this man was was carrying. grievances and things against the saudis a whole lot sections of it occur throughout the world what's particularly. disturbing about this is the izzy's in availability of firearms in the volga. ratings just a little of this morning i find that apart from sort of by sick character checks when a we

joining us now from minneapolis is abdi ismail samatar — he's a scholar, writer and professor with theensively about democracy and development in africa. welcome to the programme. if this does turn out to be al—shabab, does it suggest the group is far from being on the run, that it is stronger than ever? i am pretty certain this is al—shabab because the truck came from a road in an area that is dominated by al—shabab. i think what we see here is that al—shabab is incredibly resilient and the african union force of 22,000 forces —— soldiers that have beenin 22,000 forces —— soldiers that have been in the country for ten years are engaged in a war using the wrong strategy and the wrong tactics. yes, a guerrilla war. ijust don't think they are going to deliver the promised peaceful somalia. be that as it may, it is easy to point the finger at what they are doing wrong. what should they be doing instead? the international community including the united states and the european union that fully fund the african union force, should be spending a quarter of the 1.5 billion that they spend, on

this is rahma abdi ali, one of the protesters. >> it was a massacre that happened yesterday, and i never saw such a thing in the last 27 years. i witnessed a little boy's head lang on the ground and his mother another children with their heads also cut an explosion. people buried at people's body parts separately. it was a very shocking event. amy: somalia's president declared three days of national mourning after the attacks. there's been no claim of responsibility, but somalia's government was quick tblame al-shabab militants, who've been behind past bombings in mogadishu. the explosions came after the trump administration stepped up a u.s. campaign against al-shabab in somalia. in march, president trump declared somalia a so-call zone of active hostilities, giving wide latude to military leaders to launch airstrikes and grou assaults. may, thated tthe rst s. cbat ath somia since 1993, when navy seal officer kyle milliken was killed in an assault on an al-shabab radio statn. in augt, a raid by u.s. soldiers and somali troops on a village outside mogadishu left 10 civilians dead, includ