this al-shabab video swept the internet in 2008. it shows brutal beheading of this 28-year-old man who converted to christianity in 2005. one year ago this muslim convert to christianity was awakened in his home by al-shabab soldiers. we agreed to protect him and give him a different name, abdy. >> they ransacked my home and they had crosses on. >> tell me what they said to you? >> i was blindfolded and put ne in a dark underground cell. they beat me up. and they wanted to know where i got the bible pages. i noticed three dead bodies in the room. they placed them there to frighten me. >> they said they were going to kill him. late one night they made a daring escape. >> we opened the door, ran to the wall and started climbing. the guards opened fire, bullets killed one of micell mates. the other prisoner and i jumped over the wall. >> reunited with his family, he is still in pain but he is stronger spiritually. >> people prayed for me to escape. their prayers are what saved my life. >> secret believers like this one, offer suffer pu

what does this tell us about al- shabab's readiness? >> it shows they are weak. in the past, they were able to hold areas of mogadishu. there were driven out of the capital in august of last year and now they are in the south and through the center of somalia. have attacked two others downs today in the south of somalia. elbaradei and another town where they inflicted casualties. it is a hit-and-run operation. they do not aconfront forces directly. they will move out if too many troops attacked and hit back at a later date. >> weakness is a relative term, because it is pretty damaging. it is, but the number of areas they control has diminished and they have lost a lot of fighters. but they are still a major force. with such a suicide bombing, they can go on for long time. >> thank you very much. french concerns about suspected islamic extremists have been raised, this time with another round of arrests in locations stretching from the southern coast to near the northern border with belgium. in pre-dawn raids witnessed by local journalists, at least 10 people arre

but the islamic militant group al shabab says it is a larger effort. >> i do not know what to say about that. >> among the casualties, the president of the olympic committee and the head of the football association. in london, as david cameron hosted an international conference on somalia in february, a condemnation of the latest attacks. they said they did not speak for the people of somalia. the alshabab fighters have been on the wrong foot in recent months. their recent return to the heart of the capital serves as a reminder this is still one of the most dangerous countries on earth. bbc news. >> still dangerous times there in somalia. today, the u.s. military says it is ready to go forward with the trials of the guantanamo bay prisoners charged with planning 9/11, among them kalid sheik mohammed. president obama had said he wanted the men and prosecuted in civilian court, but congress opposed him. for more, i am joined by jonathan blake, and most americans would say has this guy not already been charged and tried? >> in 2008, under the bush administration, these five suspects were c

al qaeda is now made of coalition with al shabab. everywhere i went from tunisia to algeria to morocco, we talked about security. we have to constantly respond not only with our intelligence community and military means if necessary, but we have to be on the ground picking up the information that can then be shared with our intelligence and military professionals and we also put together for the first time this past year a global counterterrorism forum where we have the major players from around the world. i hosted the first meeting with turkey in september. we're setting up a senator in uae to counter violent extremism. these are parts of the role that the diplomacy and development experts at state and usaid perform every single day and we think it's important work because we do it with great pride. >> i thank you for that. i know they do it with great pride and to great effect. i think one of the things i was struck by is this is not under 150 account but under commerce account which i also serve on, but when i was in hong kong, i

you know, there are very levels of links already between al qaeda and with al-shabab, hints of links elsewhere, as you mentioned with haram, but also unresolved tensions. al qaeda has a trans national agenda. at the moment, one group clearly doesn't so. there are those issues. there's also the potential spillover effects for countries like the u.k., for example, new concerns about new or greater radicalization in new subsets of british youth. there's been signs of that with somali community, but it could also spread, the report says, to other sort of east and west african minority communities. >> and that could obviously be, again, across other parts of the world. how much is it thought that the groups are very much focused on being in africa and how much would they again spill over any potential? >> well, i think that's, if you like, a work in progress, as far as this trend is concerned. but clearly there are links at varying levels and how those are resolved and what the dynamics of that will be, if you like. the potential concerns. >> no numbers as yet on what they think the likel

you have al shabab in the horn of africa and the aqap in yemen and aqim in northern africa. they really disbursed. their capability in terms of major attacks is diminished as the president said recently, but they're really using a strategy of death by 1,000 cuts. that's their philosophy, and we'll see if it works. >> so would you say we are any safer than -- now than when osama bin laden was alive? i mean, you look at al shbab, they're certainly very dangerous and certainly al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> well, i think the major attacks, like we saw in 9/11, are something that is really beyond the capability of some of these groups. unless something happens in the mere term. it's these little tiny attacks like we saw in uganda and that we have seen threatened in kenya, that we've seen even in nigeria with an affiliate of al qaeda, so these are the types of things we are concerned about, and also the lone wolf type of thing that is energized through ideology over the internet. this is something i think law enforcement in the united states is more concerned about and we

when we learned that a few somali americans had gone back to somalia and become involved with al shabab. when i talked to both the fbi direct director muller and more importantly when i went back to the twin cities and talked to special agent in charge there, both said that the somali community had been cooperative in fbi investigations. and i think it was because of actually very good police work and very good work by the fbi in making sure that they earned the trust of the somali community there. my questions are to chief davis and to officer gale. both of you have served as law enforcement officers. how do you earn the trust of the diverse communities that you serve? some of which -- some of whom may be initially skeptical of the police? >> thank you, senator, and one stop at a time. one day at a time. one interaction at a time. i think when people -- i think we have to, one, acknowledge the history police have played. the role of law enforcement with regard to race in this country. we still have generations of people that remember the segregation. generations of people that are stil

for some of the with the intention of joining the terrorist group al-shabab. he was arrested in kenya before reaching somalia. a final vote tally for and at large d.c. council seat. vincent orange led his challenger by four of543 votes. election officials will count absentee and provisional ballots and the polls will be announced after 5:00 this afternoon. >> the nationals will face the breads again tonight. >> the d.c. 9 started their first-round series of the season with a victory in front of a packed house. gio gonzalez struck out seven. a wild pitch to clinch it. in the bottom of the 10th inning, this wild pitch for ryan zimmerman. he crosses the plate safely and the nationals win. the capitals are down after game 1 of the stanley cup playoffs in boston. >> scores!. >> the only goal for kelly, but it came in overtime. sudden death. boston wins. game two is tomorrow afternoon also in boston. >> 6:006, 45 degrees. >> newark mayor cory booker making national headlines. >> and metro raising fares. we will tell you how much a ride could cost. >> a weekend warmu

obviously, people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted for attempting to join al-shabab. number of factors that we have put together. we have seen quite a slowdown in that phenomenon, somalia and americans' desire in to go to the horn of africa, to somalia to fight with al-shabab. >> thank you. >> it is now my pleasure to introduce our next keynote expert, the assistant director of the seiberg division of the fbi. he began his career with the fbi in march urging -- march of 1992. in january of 1999 he was appointed chief of the seibel division, the cyber national security section and a director of the national cyber investigative joint task force. in november of 2009 he, he was named deputy assistant director of the seiberg division. and in april of 2010, he was named the assistant director of the seiberg division. in his keynote address, the assistant director will speak to the cyber investigations and how the fbi is continuing to develop new techniques and resources that will help protect citizens from these crimes. please join me in giving a warm welcome to gordon snow

army soldier, is accused of trying to travel to somalia in september to onthe group al shabab. he was stopped in tanzania and question issed g esed by -- que by the fbi. he could face up to 15 years in prison. >>> a chaotic scene at a park in maryland as police searched for a suspected gunman. a driver called 911 after spotting a man dressed in camouflage walking into greenbelt park near good luck road. u.s. park police and maryland state police set up a perimeter around the park. they never found anybody. they later got a tip of a person walking out of a wooded area in the park and getting into a car. it's unclear, though, if it was of the same man police were looking for. >>> the first game of the playoffs everything the caps wanted. good defense, even better goaltending. it was everything but a win. the bruins scored the only goal of the night just a little over a minute into overtime to take the first game of the series 1-0. it was a stellar game for braden holtby in his first-ever nhl playoff game. he held them scoreless through regulation. stopping all 29 shots. he took t

al-shabab and al-qaeda affiliate in somalia has its own twitter account, and extremists are not justusing the internet for propaganda and recruitment, they are using cyberspace to conduct operations. and while to date terrorists have not used the internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, we cannot underestimate their intent. in one hacker-recruiting video, a terrorist proclaims that cyber warfare will be the war of the future. state-sponsored computer hacking and economic espionage which poses significant challenges as well. just as traditional crime has migrated online, so, too, has espionage. foreign nations seek our trade secrets for military and competitive advantage. and the result of these developments is that we are losing data, we are losing money, we are losing ideas, and we are losing innovation. and as citizens individually, we are increasingly vulnerable to losing our private information. the fbi has in the past several years built a substantial expertise in order to try to stay ahead of these threats both at home and abroad. we now have cyber squads in every one of o

al qaeda's merger with al-shabab. at the same time, al-shabab is a focus on regional attacks, and this is a look at two organizations in a climat -- in decline. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula continues to suffer from the death of ayman al- zawahiri. nevertheless, aqap continues to be al qaeda's most active affiliate will continue to support the government of yemen in its fight against aqap. in north and west africa, another a little bit affiliate, -- another al qaeda affiliate, aqim, continues efforts to destabilize friends and engage in the kidnapping o -- destabilize governments and engage in the kidnapping for ransom activities. and a group that aligns itself with al qaeda's violent agenda is increasingly looking to attack western interests in nigeria, in addition to the nigerian government targets. more broadly, al qaeda's killing of innocents, mostly men, wom -- mostly muslim men, women, and children has tarnished its image around world -- >> are you willing to speak out against -- what about the hundreds of i

for example, in east africa where the kenyans, the ugandans and ethiopians are attacking the al shabab movement, we need to be there to help. we need to be there in yemen as supporting actors and i think that would be very effective. >> are we closing to getting zawahiri? >> i think we are. the al qaeda leadership is being very security-savvy. if he pops his head up, that's an opportunity for us to find him and no doubt authorities are looking for him. >> always good to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we'll switch gears a bit now and talk about the soaring cost of air travel just in time for your summer vacation. fares are expected to jump 3%. that's on top of the 20% since 2010. believe me, a lot of tickets have gone up more than that. and the airlines have already managed to raise ticket prices three times this year. so, with the next bump likely to come just before memorial day, also the attack of these mega mergers, americans/us airways possibly getting together. what a vacationer to do? joining us from madison, wisconsin, the man with the answer, peter greenberg, cbs news tr

a former soldier is that to t today.ur he is accused of leaving the in december toa shabab.urity council is following meeting -- rocketa's's sablan launch. the rocket broken to pieces. theons are condemning attack. new channel 8 will have more in report coming up in just a at 8:30. minutes let us check in with lisa baden with a look at your friday to -- to meet. you will not be disappointed. a tractor-trailer 6 after nutley 6 street. not as intense as could be. the right lane is closed. tysons, police are dispatched to look for a crash. we found the dulles -- not much. we are beautiful. good on 28. on to 395 south into richmond, nothing complicated here on 29. no delays coming out of columbia. silver spring. gorgeous day to hit the lake? make that teatime now. way through the weekend early nextic -- week. going up fromre here. summer-like. 39 in manassas. of a cool spot. 50 degrees in the district. fredericksburg, 45. seasonable temperatures today in 60's.id- of sunshine. by sunday and monday. next chance of rain is tuesday and wednesday. >> thank you. thank you for watching