Hammami the Jihadist Pop Star Bridging Worlds: From Mobile to Mogadishu
A
provocative commentary by Frank J. Cilluffo and F. Jordan Evert of the Homeland
Security Policy Institute at George Washington University --
Clad
in army fatigues, holding an AK-47, and armed with a flawless command of
American
English,
Omar Hammami appears on YouTube to describe an anticipated Al Shabaab murder
of
Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia. In another video, “Al Amriki” (“The American,”
Hammami’s
nom
de guerre), runs in slow motion with a group of jihadists in his wake. Jihadist
rap plays
in
the background. An indictment unsealed Thursday names Hammami as part of a
massive FBI US-Somali terrorism case. The operation also includes the arrests
and indictments of 14 individuals on charges of providing support to the Somali
terrorist group Al Shabaab.ji
Security
Magazine Bloggers can get the full commentary at http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/policy/commentary15_Hammami.pdf
