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Saturday, November 17, 2012
A Florence man has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted List. 28-year old Omar Shafik Hammami was placed on the list yesterday for ties to a terrorist group based in Somalia, a country in eastern Africa that has been plagued by civil war since 1991. Hammami was originally indicted by an Alabama court in 2007 on terrorism charges and has allegedly spent six years supporting extreme Islamic groups with ties to al-Qaida. According to a Vanguard report from 2010, he converted to Islam while a teenager in Alabama and moved to Canada and later Egypt as a young adult. The American married a Somali woman and the two started a family in Egypt when he began to follow news of an Islamic government forming in his wife’s home country. Hammami left his wife and child in Egypt to travel to Somalia where he joined al-Shabaab. In 2009, a video surfaced online showing the Florence native describing his personal efforts to eliminate political and religious enemies. According to the FBI release, Hammami was born in Alabama and speaks English and Arabic fluently which he uses to recruit new members in western countries, including the US and Canada. The FBI believes Hammami is still in the war torn east African country.
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