The Matrix
American Jihadi
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🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the fall of 2007, a video was broadcast on the Al Jazeera News Network. |
| 0:07.0 | A thin man in his early 20s sits on the ground in a field somewhere in the East African country of Somalia. |
| 0:14.2 | He's wearing camouflage and there's a hand grenade strapped to his left front pocket. |
| 0:18.9 | He's looking directly into the camera, but his face is wrapped in a green scarf so that only his eyes and a flash of white skin are showing. |
| 0:25.0 | All Muslims of America. |
| 0:27.0 | Take into deep consideration the example of Somalia. |
| 0:30.0 | The man is the mouthpiece for a new Islamic militant group in Somalia called Al-Shabaab, which means the youth in Arabic. |
| 0:37.0 | After 15 years of chaos and oppressive rule by the American-backed warlords. |
| 0:43.0 | Your brothers stood up in order to establish peace and justice in this land. |
| 0:47.0 | The camera cuts to dozens of African fighters, |
| 0:49.0 | armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers. But the video doesn't make clear is why their spokesman appears to be a white American. |
| 1:00.0 | The story quickly circulated online, and even though the American had been careful not to reveal his identity in the small southern town of Daphne, Alabama, they knew exactly who he was. |
| 1:11.0 | I came home from work one day in Bernie. He was as white as a sheet. |
| 1:15.8 | So what is it going? He's like, mom, you need to watch this. |
| 1:19.2 | The minute we heard the voice, we knew that it was Omar. |
| 1:23.8 | Now it all makes sense. |
| 1:25.3 | He's over to their fight. |
| 1:26.2 | He's not coming back. |
| 1:27.8 | And we thought, oh my God, what is going on? |
| 1:30.6 | What is going on? |
| 1:31.3 | What is going on. What is going on? |
| 1:37.0 | The man in the video was Omar Hamami. He would become one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists. |
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