What’s it like to accidentally become confidants with a terrorist? Journalist Christof Putzel found himself in just that position in the early 2010s, when Omar Hammami reached out to him.
Alabama-born Hammami, who had embraced his Muslim roots in high school, moved to Egypt in his early twenties. From there, he joined al-Shabaab and moved to Somalia to fight in the jihad. He became known as Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki — meaning “the American” — and made a series of rapping recruitment videos, which made him a widely studied figure. By 2011, reports...
Alabama-born Hammami, who had embraced his Muslim roots in high school, moved to Egypt in his early twenties. From there, he joined al-Shabaab and moved to Somalia to fight in the jihad. He became known as Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki — meaning “the American” — and made a series of rapping recruitment videos, which made him a widely studied figure. By 2011, reports...
- 11/4/2019
- by Elisabeth Garber-Paul
- Rollingstone.com
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