[Fredricka Whitfield, Cnn Anchor:] Happening right now in the NEWSROOM. Two teenagers just 14 and 16 years old arrested in the U.K. on terrorism charges. Then the story behind Rolling Stone Magazine's horrifying report of a gang rape at the University of Virginia. Tonight the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism releases its explanation about flaws in the magazine's reporting and how it went wrong. Plus -.
[Peter Bergen, Cnn National Security Analyst:] Well, we don't know these exact charges, Fredericka right now. But if the charges are trying to join ISIS, trying to go to Syria to join ISIS, or something of that nature, in fact we're seeing a quite a number of teenagers who are doing not only in U.K. but also in United States. We've seen cases in Colorado teenage girls trying to go to ISIS who were arrested in Frankford, we've seen Shannon Conley, 19-year-old
[Whitfield:] So how was it these young people are generally, you know, busted since you're reminding us that these, you know, young teenagers are not the first, is it by way of social media typically or is there some other behavior or some other stage of planning that is revealed?
[Bergen:] I think it's almost invariably social media, Fredericka, because it's, you know, perfectly legal for law enforcement whether it's the FBI or the British equivalent to monitor people's Facebook or Twitter postings that are public. And typically, these kids are, you know, very active on social media, often they're linking up with ISIS I asked people actually inside ISIS, through Twitter, in fact ISIS has a publication with I was just reviewing, where there are 17 Twitter accounts that they're advertising that you can direct message, get in touch with people in ISIS. It's was so incline to travel so, you know, it's both on good thing and a bad thing, in a sense the good thing is the social media is a law enforcement can track it pretty easily. The bad thing of course is that's it's encouraging a lot of people, hundreds of kids to think that ISIS is an attractive group and Syria is an attractive destination.
[Whitfield:] And do you know the answer to this, Peter, as to typically these ISIS recruiters, are they making their first contact with these young people in person, and then engaging them online or is it the other way around?
[Bergen:] It's invariably the other way around, Fredericka, I mean, they are online and they're pretty accessible if you, you know, it's not anybody listening to this program can sort of go to some ISIS, you know, kind of propaganda and finding the Twitter handless of people that are actually in ISIS. It's not that difficult. That we've seen the case in Chicago where these three teenagers
[Whitfield:] Well, it almost sounds like just by what you are, you know, the picture that you're painting for us is that, for parents, aside from removing their cell phones or taking away the computers, there's no way of protecting these young people from being eligible recruits?
[Bergen:] I think it's hard and of course, you know, there's a generational thing here, of course Fredericka, which is that, you know, based on parents are not a savvy about the internet in general as their kids are. And these kids are not, you know, they're they're using ask.com and other kinds of, you know, kind of things on the internet which most parents have no idea about as a way to communicate. And so, you know, parents if they need, you know, need to be cognizant of what their kids are doing online, not only for this issue but for any other issue that you can think about that might get their kids in trouble.
[Whitfield:] All right, very disturbing. Thank you so much. Peter Bergen, I appreciate your time. All right, meantime, police in Kenya have identified one of the suspects in last week's bloody al-Shabaab terror attack on a college campus as the son of a government official. Mean while authorities are also naming a man they say planned the attack that killed more than 147 people, most of them students. Authorities are offering a $250,000 reward for the alleged mastermind, Mohamed Mohamud. CNN David McKenzie joining me right now from Nairobi. So David, what more do we know about this alleged mastermind?
[David Mckenzie, Cnn International Correspondent:] Well, this mastermind there's also goes by the name Gandarian. This is pretty typical for Somali militant to have several names and nicknames. And it's seems, according to internal documents that CNN has seen that this man is in charge or cross-border incursions from Somali into Kenya to take part in this hideous terror attack that we've seen recently. Obviously most serious this attack on this University in Garissa. But there have been other attacks in recent months, and they've also had the same sort of modus operandi getting people separating the Christians from the Muslims and then killing the Christians in cold blood. And as you say, they have been asked to what they think is through our reporting as well, one potential suspect who was one of those gunmen. He is amazingly, the son we believe of a Kenyan official from northeast Kenya, Abdul Rakman Abdullahi, who it seems was a graduate from Nairobi Law School, which is just close by to my location here and then disappeared into Somalia. This is really fits into the pattern of recruitment from Kenya that I have seen over the years, that Somali-Kenyans and just Kenyan Muslims are susceptible to being recruited by al-Shabaab and then returning to frankly, to their home soil to kill fellow citizen Fredericka.
[Whitfield:] OK. David McKenzie, thanks for that update. Keep us posted. Thank you so much. All right, the latest fighting in Yemen has now claimed the life of an American citizen for the first time, Jahmahl al-abani. Apparently, he left for Yemen two months ago; the country has to send it into heavy sectarian fighting that has claimed more than 500 lives in the last two weeks alone. The International Red Cross is called for ceasefire so those wounded in the fighting can actually get medical help. Nick Valencia has more on the American killed the circumstances that found him in Yemen.
[Nick Valencia, Cnn Correspondent:] That's right. People may be wondering what he doing there in the first place. He has a pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter that live in Eden, Yemen. And he travelled there in February with the intention of bringing both of them back. Just a couple months ago he had secured U.S. passport for that two and a half year old daughter. But in the weeks leading up to his death, there was worsening conditions there on the ground in Yemen. And he was voicing concerns to his family. His cousin told me just a little while ago, Jamal al-Labani, just two days before he died, his planned was to cross the border into Amman, catch a flight to Egypt but he just never made it. About 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday he was leaving prayers on a Mosque with his nephew when he was hit by shrapnel rounder, shrapnel from a mortar strike and he just dies two minutes later.
[Whitfield:] My goodness. And then you spoke with an official at the state department, what they are saying about so many who want to be us to be more involved in getting other American citizens out of Yemen.
[Valencia:] This really as a point of contention for advocates of U.S. citizens in Yemen. Yet many Americans that U.S. State Department is not doing enough. So we reached out to them and asked an official if there were plans to evacuate citizens there in Yemen right now. For now they say in a statement, "that's not the case," they say they encourage all U.S. citizens to shelter in a secure location until they are able to depart safely. They also told me that in the last ten years they've been given at least 24 travel warnings to Yemen. I spoke to Jamal al-Labani 's cousin and this is something that was concerning to him. He says that the U.S. government could have done more to help his cousin and people like him.
[Mohammed Alazzani, Jamal Al-labani's Cousin:] Unfortunately, a lot of people traveled when didn't know the risk, they will hear the news but, I mean, and then looking at it, a month ago, a few months ago, it wasn't as bad as it is today, it has reached hour so as it got really bad then.
[Valencia:] The council on Islamic-American relations says there's a lot more Yemeni-Americans there in Yemen than initially believe.
[Whitfield:] And I wonder since the U.S. personnel has evacuated U.S. troops there, I mean, really, what would the U.S. be able to do in terms of retrieving or getting other Americans out? I mean, physically, there are no means in which to do that, it would seem.
[Valencia:] Even so, these advocates say that they've could do more. What they are specifically wanting, they don't say, but that's really something they just want some help.
[Whitfield:] Yes. They just want some help. Got it. All right.
[Valencia:] They say other smaller governments like Ethiopia, India, Russia, they've evacuated their citizens, the U.S. needs to do more help
[Whitfield:] Why not there. All right, Nick Valencia, thanks so much.
[Valencia:] You got it.
[Whitfield:] All right. Back in this country now, yes, then there were just two, a wild night of March madness in April as the championship game is now set. Andy Scholes is still in Indianapolis Andy.
[Andy Scholes, Cnn Sports Anchor/reporter:] Yes, Fred. Kentucky dreamed of undefeated season is now over and what one of their players did in postgame interviews could land him in some hot water. We'll tell you what he said after the break.