for example, in tunisia for a long time they liked to talk about ansar al-sharia was basically doing charity events. i was very concerned about this because three haven't to accelerate acts of terrorism, but they're building up their cadre which can be used for those types of acts in the future, and now we've seen that, in fact, they had a clandestine apparatus that was planning and plotting all along including the ransacking of our embassy. >> and, dr. lawrence, your focus is really on -- i mean, i think a refreshing way to focus on young people and what we need to do. so i gather your answer to my question is not that we need to do more of what we're doing, but we kind of need to do different things and have a different focus that really is looking at the youth in the region. >> yes. and the youth are everybody. i mean, basically -- >> yep. >> because of the youth bulge, you're talking about the entirety of these populations. the median age in tunisia, which has turned the demographic corner, is 30. in morocco and algeria, it's 27, and in libya it's 24. so the latter three suffer m

and the above grew and grew our own group called ansar which is a splinter group of overall effect. it's a claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the sixty three almost escape from his abductors bosses gospel pray he then took a taxi to a nearby police station for strikeouts george body tells us. these are the first pictures of her home since he escaped into the contest french engineers committee hearing captain failed to use kidnapping this time in open mind tear it by thirty amen sixty three year old has enhanced the ansari and ninety are in a radical islamist group said it wanted to punch from its conduct a mini tree operations in milk money. and for causing untold banning the wearing of full veils in places. on a trip to israel. the french president welcomed the news heralding cones remarkable story. says. this model has shown exceptional coverage well not just because he was held in captivity for india but because the risk of his life with. he took a chance to experience has been doing it. in april nigerian police say the internet was being held in a house in the city of

position now where i've seen public reports of individuals like ahmed abu caal la who's associated with ansar al-sharia, the reports are he's been indicted in new york with others that haven't been named, and yet no one has been brought to justice. can you tell us why? >> thank you, senator. if charges are brought in a case and they are under seal, it's not something that i could talk about. what i can tell you is this is among the fbi's very highest priorities. i have a lot of people working very, very hard on it. we are committed to bringing to justice those responsible for the attack and the murder of our folks. these are often difficult cases to make, but as you've seen, i think you've seen in our work we never give up, and we will never rest until we bring to justice the people responsible. the challenge for me is i have twin goals. i want to bring to justice successfully, and i want to make sure that any witnesses i have stay cooperative with us and that the bad guys don't know what i might know or what i might be doing. and so i'm limited on what i can say this an open forum. >> well,