there is a huge somali population in minneapolis, they call it mogadishu. there are about 1,000 somalis working in the minneapolis airport. we have had some problems over the course of a couple years. three somali americans went back to the battlefield. two became suicide bombers in mogadishu, somalia, one went to syria to fight for isis. do you think this plays a role in the lackadaisical attitude with the tsa? >> i don't know if it's a lackadaisical attitude. the manager came from the airline industry. you had two of his assistants testify before congress about his leadership, that he emphasizes customer service over security. three of the people -- 18,000 workers. it's a united nations of workers at our airports and the majority of them come from ethiopia and somalia. they were radicalized after they left the airport. i don't know if it's anymore that population than any other population in terms of screening. tsa is involved with the airport force in two ways. they have to be careful because we have a lot of people with similar names and the same dates

a car bomb exploding near a police station in the capital city of mogadishu, killing at least five peoplend injuring more than a dozen others. al-shabaab, the al qaeda-linked terror group blamed for the attack. conor powell has more from the middle east bureau. >> reporter: today's blast shattered months of relative calm in mogadishu, and as is so often the case, most of the victims were civilians. according to authorities. the explosion occurred near a police station but in front of several shops along a main busy road. at least five people were killed and a dozen wounded. somali officials blame the al qaeda-linked group al-shabaab. militants want to blame a strict rule which is in the midst of its worst drought in 40 years. despite millions starving and in desperate need of humanitarian aid. al-shabaab imposed a ban on humanitarian assistance, and not long after the blast, al-shabaab fighters blasted a convoy of soldiers, killing at least 8. u.s. special forces have been active in somalia for decades but the country is fractured and at war, arthel. arthel: thank you so much, conor powel

. >> why let them drag by ropes through the streets of mogadishu. >> we have gone way beyond what ourin somalia and it's time to get out. >> after two days of stinging criticism, the president said today the u.s. needs to, and i quote now, conclude its role in somalia. >> if the american people are to say yes to u.n. peacekeeping, the united nations must know when to say no. >> there was enormous pressure on the clinton administration not to commit the united states to similar operations in the future. fast forward. rwanda. >> good evening. fighting is going on tonight in the small african nation of rwanda. >> 20,000 are believed dead after five days after massacres. >> in this orgy of violence, three women can be seen pleading for their lives. they're first savagely beaten and then hacked to death by soldiers. >> village after entire village wiped out by extremists. >> because of the horror of somalia, there was no will whatsoever to intervene in rwanda. even though there were many early warning signals that intervention could have stopped that genocide. >> the savagery is turning ou

. >> the passengers and crew were need a lightning rescue made at somalia's mogadishu airport. >> there was swinging away from terrorist efficacy. in other words, if you hijacked a plane, you didn't necessarily get a free run to the press conference. >> once again, we see terrorism's evolution in the sense that the terrorists themselves often have to change up their tactics if they're going to stay one step ahead of the government. >> west german industrialist hans martin schrier, a key government adviser, was kidnapped in cologne today. >> the terrorists riddled the cars carrying schrier and his police bodyguards with machine gun fire. the bodyguards were killed. >> this is the third terrorist incident in germany in the past six months. all involve death, and all involve the baader-meinhof gang. >> the red army faction in west germany was part of a 1970s trend of marxist vanguard groups. the red brigade in the japanese red army, the weathermen in the united states. these were people who felt that the capitalist structures were unjust and needed to be destroyed and the only effective wa

the first time since pulling out in 1994 after 19 american troops were killed in the battle for mogadishu. in may, enable seal was killed fighting alongside similar forces during an operation against the al qaeda affiliate al shabbab, which nearly down the civilian airliner last year and continued the dhs ban on laptops on some flights coming in the u.s. former u.s. army ranger matt evers mintz's effort in somalia 24 years ago were documented in black hawk down. u.s. forces were forced to withdraw after the first battle which began in october 3rd, 1993. >> for our strategy to change overnight on october 3rd and 4th, that leaves a horrific, horrible, bitter make to my taste in my mouth. it makes the bile in my stomach rise. and you cannot help but reasonably ask why we didn't do it in the first place? >> the pentagon expects to have troops deployed in these trouble spots for decades to come as defense attorney james mathis has warned, we've seen the results of leaving ungoverned areas too soon. bill? >> bill: thank you, jennifer griffin, here in washington. if you miss any of her recording