it's a small but important effort in this country where a year after the terror siege, westgate mall sits empty. no one has been convicted in the attacks. the try of the four suspects is stalled indefinitely. and more recent, smaller attacks have put kenya on edge. writers like clifton say it all remains hard to process. >> i find myself really, really unable to write about terror and westgate, and maybe when i'm writing about other things, i'm writinwriting about terror proby they don't know. >> brown: at storymoja this year, remembering westgate came in a moment of silence for the victims of thes, including one of their own. it's a sentiment shared here as well as this one. >> something about that encounter last year, also gave me a new understanding of the urgency of literary work. you don't know when your last day is. >> brown: a peaceful fall day, a clear urgency to read and write a new story for kenya and africa. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. lawmakers grilled federal health officials on ebola, as a c.d.c. investigation expanded to a second flight taken by

in the u.k., that involved a friendship with the guy in the red cap there, the mastermind of the westgate mall attack. all sorts of other missions and operations which we really kind of lay out in the book. you were going from yemen to kenya to indonesia, all around the world for debriefings from missions. really an incredible helter-skelter life for both, you know, cia but also mi6, danish intelligence doing one for one agency, another for another agency. and we lay all that out in the book. but from the americans' point of view, over time one of their top targets became ann al-awlaki, can be anwar al-awlaki k somebody they became increasingly interested in. he was cropping up in all these terrorist informations in the west, the london bombings, other plots and attempts. they all seemed to be inspired by this guy. so in the bottom of this slide here, we have you drive anything october 2008 -- driving in october 2008 in yemen, and you're delivering plies to anwral -- delivering supplies to anwral awe hackey. tell us about that and meeting him the and the interaction you had back in 2008 w

he grabbed his ifp branch ran to the white house and immediately after westgate saw they there were all these cabinet level limo's in the driveway and went in and started asking what was going on. went to jody's office and saw there was not only everyone from the lower press office in upper press office but press office to stack of plates with dried lasagna indicating they were in there for hours. he started asking around and initially one in the lower press conference said it was from bogotÁ. he immediately figured out that was not true. the deputy secretaries that i have nothing for you on it. that was enough to avert the network because it was 1979. this would mean interrupting prime-time programming and he knew his informal cutoff was 11:30 which would impact a the johnny carson show the tonight show. he got the camera crews down and it was in the middle of the hostage crisis. the iran hostage crisis and eventually he bluffed his way with jody and he describes it as a classic for any journalist saying he knew it had to be an international crisis given it was there, something was goi