narrator: al qaeda affiliate al shabaab is an example. kalron: alshabaab is built out of former warlords. their profession is trafficking. if it's not in ivory, then it's in weapons, in narcotics, in fuel, in goods, in timber, in crcoal. narrator: the u.s. designated terror group, based in somalia, was responsible for the september 2013 attack on the westgate mall in nairobi that killed 67 people, and for the death of over 140 in the april 2015 attack on kenya's garissa university. nir kalron investigated the links between al shabaab and illicit ivory trade in 2012. kalron: al shabaab was controlling the ports of kismayo, marca, and big parts of mogadishu, including access to the port through its agents. evidence from kenya suggests the local and regional poachers used that access. we'd seen evidence from ports in marca and kismayo of ivory, large stocks of it, and had collected evidence from individuals that testified to having profited from that trade with al shabaab agents. knights: al shabaab did control various ports in somalia where the ivory