Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki Military person
Omar Shafik Hammami (Arabic: عمر شفيق همّامي, ‘Umar Shafīq Hammāmī; 6 May 1984 – 12 September 2013), also known by the pseudonym Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (Arabic: أبو منصور الأمريكي, Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī), was an American citizen who was a member and leader in the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. In November 2012, the FBI added Hammami to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007.Hammami began to identify as Muslim in high school and dropped out of college. After moving to Toronto, Canada, and marrying a Somali-Canadian woman in 2004, he traveled with her to Egypt in 2005. He then abandoned his wife and infant daughter to join Al-Shabaab in Somalia in late 2006. They divorced, and by 2009 he had married a Somali woman and had another daughter.Hammami served as a commander, propagandist, and recruiter. He was rumored to have been killed in March and July 2011, but later appeared again in videos. In December 2012 Al-Shabaab posted a rebuke online of what it called his "narcissistic pursuit of fame."Hammami was killed by al-Shabaab on 12 September 2013.
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allegiance | Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (2006–2012) |
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Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/november/two-most-wanted-terrorists-named/two-most-wanted-terrorists-named
- http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/copy_of_omar-shafik-hammami/view/Al-Amriki's
- http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/16/omar_and_me
- http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/scared-terrorist
- http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/jihadi-rap-ghostwriter
- http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/bounty-omar-hammami
- http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/omar-hammami