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The Life of an American in Somalia’s Jihad: An In-Depth Portrait of al-Amriki
Publication: Volume: 3 Issue: 5
May 31, 2012 06:22 PM Age: 356 days
Category: Militant Leadership Monitor, Home Page, Africa, East Africa
A U.S. citizen born in 1984 in Alabama, Omar Hammami (a.k.a. Abu Mansoor al-Amriki) is a key recruiter and propaganda specialist for the al-Qaeda affiliated group, al-Shabaab, in Somalia. Al-Amriki, the son of a Syrian Muslim father and an American Southern Baptist mother, was raised in a Baptist family but started to practice the religion of Islam in high school after returning from a family trip to his father’s birthplace in Damascus.
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