Left: Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax (Abdullah al Amriki), from the FBI’s website. Right: Faarax [right] with Omar Hammami [left], from a posting at a jihadist website on Dec. 7, 2011. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.A Shabaab fighter who has been seen in pictures with military commander Omar Hammami has been identified by The Long War Journal as an American who is wanted by the US government and who fled the country for Somalia in 2009.
The Long War Journal has confirmed that the Shabaab fighter identified by the terror group as Abdullah al Amriki (“the American”) is in fact Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, an American who recruited for the terror group and left the US in October 2009 to wage jihad in Somalia.
Faarax has been seen in pictures with Hammami that were released on jihadist web forums twice since the beginning of December 2011; first on Dec. 7, and again on Jan. 7. Hammami, another American, is a Shabaab military commander and recruiter who eulogized Osama bin Laden after his death in May 2011. Hammami is on the US’s list of specially designated global terrorists for his ties to al Qaeda.
Faarax was one of eight men from Minnesota who were charged by the Department of Justice with links to Shabaab and international terrorism in 2009. The Justice Dept. named all eight men in November 2009.
In October 2009, Farax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse, another Shabaab operative, were charged with “with conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons outside the United States.”
I guess he hasn’t been charged with killing Americans after kidnapping them INSIDE the USA.
But, to hear their relatives tell it, this Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax convinced young Somali men in Minnesota to come with him under false pretenses to places like Las Vegas or Mexico.
Once the men got in the rental car they were ferried to Somalia where at least two of them were fitted with bomb vests and one detonated, the other got out of the contraption.
At least 6 Somali men who had disappeared from Minnesota have been killed in Somalia.
Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax was implicated in the mens disappearances from their homes.
One wonders if these men were knowing volunteers or unwitting victims, as the escapee claims.
It is really sad how many so-called ”jihadists” turn out to be fools, mental defects and even children kidnapped by or sold to their violent masters.
May he meet with a Hellfire missile soon.