Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki

Who was Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki?

Omar Shafik Hammami, also known by the pseudonym Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, was an American citizen who was a member and leader in the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. In November 2012, the FBI added Hammami to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007.

Hammami began to identify as Muslim in high school and dropped out of college. After going to Toronto, Canada, and marrying a Somali-Canadian woman in 2004, he went with her to Egypt in 2005. He abandoned his wife and infant daughter to join Al-Shabaab in Somalia in late 2006. They divorced, and by 2009 he had married a Somali woman and had another daughter.

Hammami served as a commander, propagandist, and recruiter. He was rumored to have been killed in March and July 2011, but later appeared again in videos. In December 2012 Al-Shabaab posted a rebuke online of what it called his "narcissistic pursuit of fame."

Hammami was killed by al-Shabaab on 12 September 2013.