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convert who wished to travel to Somalia to train with the Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-
Shabaab as well as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Al-Qaeda as a group saw itself as the vanguard, a group that would last 20 years
and lay the groundwork for the next generation. It saw itself as moving from a
network to an ideology, and in this respect, it has. One of the senior leaders of
al-Shabaab is a U.S. citizen from Alabama of Syrian descent, Omar Hammami.
Hammami laid out a strategy for al-Shabaab to establish an Islamic state in Somalia,
and he has become a deep thinker regarding jihadist issues. Hammami said, “They
can't blame it on poverty or any of that stuff.... They will have to realize that it's an
ideology and it's a way of life that makes people change.”
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