A quick warning. This episode includes graphic descriptions of violence that some

listeners may find disturbing.

Previously on American Jehi jihadi.

There were two camps in Al-Shabaab.

There were two camps in Al-Shabaab.

Godanes was the more ruthless and the more brutal.

They blow up innocent people in coffee places and hotels and weddings.

Hamami found himself on the side of Al-Shabab that started to call for some moderation.

What happened was he just became part of my daily life and the people I talked to every day.

How many times I would be like, oh man, I think this guy is suffering too and he's just in his own way suffering because you see the person as somebody you know now? The tweet,

I'm still married, but I think I'm getting divorced.

Six years?

You got a man for?

No kids?

No kids.

The tweet, there for anyone who wanted to see it, read,

Just Been Shot A Neck by a Shababa sabbat. a photo of himself on Twitter, bleeding from the throat.

He said he'd been shot by a Shabab assassin.

I messaged him to call me A-SAP.

He wrote back a few minutes later that the bullet wound made it hard for him to talk.

Later he tweeted that armed men were coming

from multiple directions and that the leader of al-Shabaab Abd-D-Gadane had gone

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