as far as al-shabaab. we, yeah, there were those threats, but there were no reported incidents of al-shabaab attacking a period close to the elections or during the election day. as i said, we had streamlined and we're watching that closely, but i think there was an incident today, sometime this week by al-shabaab, but they-- you know, they didn't -- they wanted an international study about the elections with violence. >> and sometimes in the run-up to the election there are claims that the government is straining sources for great options. in fact, we're in the time, a press from al-shabaab and some of that was that the elections we were-- they can take credit for that. they've provided enough to have the election take place even in some of the frontier counties, fairly peacefully. nobody was intimidated. nobody failed to go to the polling station for fear of an al-shabaab attack. >> i think that's right. in some ways there had been an up-tick in al-shabaab attacks before the election, mostly on military c