by Charles Cameron | Sep 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ Charles Cameron — receiving messages from the dead via Twitter ] . I was surprised late last night when a tweet from the account of the late American jihadi Omar Hammami showed up in my Twitter stream: [arabic text, hit “refresh” if the tweet-image...
by Charles Cameron | May 13, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a testament to bewilderment ] . It is pretty clear, I think, that Craig Little (upper panel) is not a mujahid from Daphne, Alabama, now living or dead in Somalia. He first tweeted on 22 March, 2009, however, and hasn’t tweeted since...
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Omar Hammami, the American jihadist in Somalia, sent out ominous tweets on Monday about an attack from his old allies in al-Shebab that seemed as if his death might be imminent.
by Charles Cameron | Apr 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — wanna know the very latest on those black banners from Khorasan? ] . Here’s the scene that greeted four British recruits to the jihad on their arrival at a training camp in Pakistan in August 2011: This wasn’t like the training...
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 4, 2013 | Monitor
Omar Hammami is an American jihadist from Somalia. He intends to stay one, he tells Danger Room, even as he’s struck up a Twitter friendship with U.S. counterterrorists.