Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Omar Shafik Hammami (Arabic: عمر شفيق همّامي, ‘Umar Shafīq Hammāmī; 6 May 1984 – 12 September 2013), also known by the pseudonym Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (Arabic: أبو منصور الأمريكي, Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī), 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.. }
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- Abu_Mansoor_Al-Amriki abstract "Omar Shafik Hammami (Arabic: عمر شفيق همّامي, ‘Umar Shafīq Hammāmī; 6 May 1984 – 12 September 2013), also known by the pseudonym Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (Arabic: أبو منصور الأمريكي, Abū Manṣūr al-Amrīkī), 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.".