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May 13, 2011 . 6:04 pm Avenge Bin Laden: Toronto Recruit <http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Al_Qaida_recruit_dreams_about_Osa ma_bin_Laden.jpg> An Al Qaida recruit dreams about Osama bin Lad... Image via Wikipedia TORONTO - A former Toronto <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/canada/toronto> man who is now a commander of the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabab <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab> has called for revenge over the killing of Osama bin Laden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden> in an audiotape posted on the Internet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet> . Photos that accompany the recording show Omar Hammami <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mansoor_Al-Amriki> , alias Abu Mansour the American <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa> , speaking at an Al-Shabab rally called "We are all Osama" along with other leaders of the al-Qaeda <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda> -linked group. "Today, we remind the Muslims that the caliphate [Islamic rule] shall soon be reborn," he says in the audio recording posted on an Al-Shabab-affiliated website and obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SITE_Institute> , which tracks terrorists' online activities. "May Allah accept our dear beloved sheikh and cause our swords to become instruments of his avenging. Oh Muslims do not slack in going after the people. If you feel pain, they too feel pain as you feel pain." The son of a Southern Baptist mother and a Syrian father, Hammami, 27, grew up in Alabama and moved in 2004 to Toronto, where he married a Somali-Canadian and was recruited into Islamist extremist ideology. Since arriving in Somalia, he has posted scores of videos on the Internet urging Western Muslim youths to join Al-Shabab, a Taliban-like armed group trying to impose its backward version of Islamic law on Somalis. On March 29, police arrested another Toronto man at Pearson airport as he was allegedly leaving Canada to join Al-Shabab. Mohamed Hassan Hersi, 25, faces two terrorism-related charges but was released on bail. Officials say up to 20 young Canadians have already travelled to Somalia to join Al Shabab, which Canada outlawed as a terrorist organization last year after it began aggressively recruiting Somali-Canadians <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Canadians> . The group, whose name means The Youth in Arabic, is notorious for its suicide bombings, including two that killed more than 70 people watching World Cup soccer last year in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. There was speculation in March that Hammami was dead after Somalia's defence minister said unconfirmed intelligence reports suggested he was killed in fighting around Mogadishu. But he resurfaced in April in an online video in which he sings about jihad and martyrdom. In his latest eight-minute speech, Hammami, dressed in a camouflage vest, says "we announce to America and to the world that sheikh Osama bin Laden kindled the fire of jihad decades ago and in effect resistance is now of little value." It is the latest of many bold threats that jihadists have posted online since the U.S. strike that killed bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1. Western security officials are bracing for possible retaliatory attacks, since al-Qaeda and its affiliates may want to demonstrate they can survive the death of the terrorist boss. "Al-Qaeda has been compared to the archetypal shark in the water that must keep moving forward - no matter how slowly or incrementally - or die," Professor Bruce Hoffman wrote in the latest edition of the CTC Sentinel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Terrorism_Center> , the journal of the Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point. "Whether al-Qaeda can in fact do so, and thereby prove that it can survive its founder and leader's demise, is surely the most pressing question of the moment." Stewart Bell, National Post . May 13, 2011 | Last [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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