Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Jihadist Next Door

Left, Omar Hammami as a freshman in high school. Right, in a Shabab propaganda video released in March 2009. From The Hammami Family.

From The New York Times:


ON A WARM, cloudy day in the fall of 1999, the town of Daphne, Ala., stirred to life. The high-school band came pounding down Main Street, past the post office and the library and Christ the King Church. Trumpeters in gold-tasseled coats tipped their horns to the sky, heralding the arrival of teenage demigods. The star quarterback and his teammates came first in the parade, followed by the homecoming queen and her court. Behind them, on a float bearing leaders of the student government, a giddy mop-haired kid tossed candy to the crowd.

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My Comment: A sobering assessment on who the enemy can be at times.

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