The Associated Press reports that the rapping al-Shabbab jihadist from Alabama Omar Hammami might have been killed by his own folks. Al Shabbab is an al Qaeda-linked group operating in Somalia.
Reports of Hammami’s death crop up every few months in Somalia, only for him to resurface alive and well a short while later. A U.S. terrorism expert who closely follows the inner workings of Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked terror group says he thinks that the current reports of the death are accurate.
“I think it’s very likely true based on the sources I am seeing,” said J.M. Berger, who runs the website Intelwire.com.
Militants did not immediately present proof of Hammami’s death.
A member of al-Shabab who gave his name as Sheik Abu Mohammed told The Associated Press that Hammami was killed in an ambush in Somalia’s southern Bay region. Mohammed said some of his associates carried out the killing.
Insha’Allah, I guess we can only hope that the news is true this time. There was a $5 million price tag on his head so I wonder if we’ll be paying al-Shabbab the reward.
Updated: 12H sends us a BBC link that reports that a Brit Shabbab might have gone to Allah, too, Insha’Allah;
Two top Islamist militants, from the US and UK, have been killed in Somalia after falling out with al-Shabab, witnesses have told the BBC.
Omar Hammami, known as al-Amriki, and Osama al-Britani, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, are said to have died in an early-morning attack in a village south-west of the capital, Mogadishu.
Too bad, so sad . . . . nah, not really.
May all his 72 virgins look like Helen Thomas.
Hondo, I got a better idea. May he find out that HE’S one of the 72 virgins.
He may be from Alabama, but I do not count him as an American.
He’s just a malcontent that found an audience, nothing else. And now he’s dead? Good.
Sounds like he turned his life around. Good for him!
Sounds like a Thursday feel good story to me….a two fer if you will….now if we just kill whoever comes for the reward it will be a perfect ending…
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person….
If he does get his 72 virgins, may they all be the Alabama kind, sheep.
VOV: The ones earning the potential reward are surely also enemies of ours, so they most certainly should get the reward, and a few hundred cases of light weaponry/ammo to go with it. (Not the reasoning you and I would use, but typical of the nonsense we see these days.)
Adam Gadahn next? One can only hope…
Were his last words “Allahubama Akbar” or “Roll Tide?” I wonder.
@1 Hondo….
Scratch Helen Thomas and insert Paul K Wickre.
@9: “Oh shit! War Eagle…”
@10- that’s just thirteen different varieties of fucked up, and I am ashamed I didn’t think of it first
Air Cav…more like “War Eagle!”
Love getting these nice messages on my Birthday. Hell yeah, I hope he is at ambient temperature now.
Thanks for the shout-out! As one of my friends on FB said, “Reading this put a smile on my face”