American Jihadist Is Believed Killed by Ex-Allies in Somalia

[Robb]

Source: New York Times



NAIROBI, Kenya — A young man from Alabama who traveled to Somalia and became an infamous Islamist militant, commanding guerrilla forces and earning a $5 million American bounty on his head, was believed to have been killed by his former extremist allies on Thursday, according to news reports and Islamist Web sites.

The jihadist, Omar Hammami, known for his rap-infused propaganda videos for the Shabab, a brutal Islamist group in Somalia, was reported killed in an ambush on Thursday morning. If true, his death would bring to a close one of the more unusual chapters in more than two decades of fighting in the Horn of Africa.

But Mr. Hammami, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, “the American,” has been declared dead before, only to resurface alive.

There is little question that Mr. Hammami has been on the run from his former comrades. His recent troubles brought to the surface rifts within militant circles in Somalia.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/world/africa/american-jihadist-is-believed-killed-by-ex-allies-in-somalia.html

[4Q2u2]

1. Were's the Trust

I mean if you cannot trust your fellow armed militants these days, who can you?

[geek tragedy]

2. Karma. nt

[Sunlei]

3. Drs without borders has just left Somalia after extreme attacks on its staff.

They were there for 22 years but the country has fractured into small groups all attacking anyone they can get their hands on.

Guess Mr. Hammami got on the wrong side of his "friends"

[Bosonic]

4. Hmmmm

[tabasco]

5. Good riddance to bad garbage.

If all of al shabab fell over dead, I'd dance a jig.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. American Jihadi - Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki

[Botany]

7. Just watched a video about him and all I can say is ....

..... good he is dead.



one of the many victims of Shabab