Editor's Note: This is the first in a four-part series on the rebuilding of a key al Qaeda node in Somalia. Early May 1, a U.S. AC-130 Spectre gunship destroyed a house in central Somalia where members of the Islamist militant group al Shabaab (Arabic for "the youth") were holding a meeting. Two men with close ties to al Qaeda prime were killed in the attack. With the U.S. government reporting recently that the al Qaeda node along the Afghan/Pakistani border is reorganizing, and with evidence surfacing recently that the al Qaeda node in Yemen is reorganizing as well, it seems that a select few al Qaeda groups have been undergoing a period of rebuilding. The same situation could be playing out in Somalia with al Shabaab.