WHO IS AL-AMRIKI? AMERICAN STARS IN TERRORIST RECRUITMENT VIDEO

He is the rare caucasian face in al Qaeda's online propaganda videos. No one knows his name. In jihadi circles, he is simply known as "The American." What is known is that he is one of the most high-ranking officials within the terrorist group and goes by Sheikh Abu Mansoor al-Amriki. He is currently in Somalia, training new recruits to al-Shabab - many of them American boys of Somali descent. It has been reported that he is an American Muslim, ex-US Special Forces, one of a handful who were sent unofficially to fight in Bosnia in about 1992, though the American government hasn't confirmed those reports.

> He is the rare caucasian face in al Qaeda’s online propaganda videos. No one knows his name. In jihadi circles, he is simply known as “The American.” ...

> It has been reported that he is an American Muslim, ex-US Special Forces, one of a handful who were sent unofficially to fight in Bosnia in about 1992, though the American government hasn’t confirmed those reports.

My Bullshirt Detector just went off. The “elite” community is sufficiently small that if this guys is who they claim him to be, he would be a Legend and somebody somewhere would know his name.

This guy sounds like one of the fakes that you might encounter in a bar somewhere, full of big stories of Secret SEAL derring-do and medals and capture by the enemy and torture and more medals and having to shoot kids and having Osama in the gunsights but being ordered at the last minute not to shoot blah-blah-blah.

Anyone think this guy is for real?

I’d bet Al Amriki-rikardo joined the islamo-turds so he’d have an excuse to come home and kill the guys that beat his @$$ at the busstop just for the fun of it, and all the girls that made fun of his little penis. And while he’s at it he’ll honor-kill his mother for telling all the neighbors that he wet his bed every night until he was 13.

No.

Not to belittle, but SF isn’t all that high speed. And the guys with all the badges have been in for years. It takes, or used to, ten years to get skilled, trained, fielded and a personality and vouched for standing on a street corner in some country in a leather jacket and a 9mm Browning. What happens is that you would either get recruited for the CIA and retire with them, or loaned to them for anywhere from a few months to years.

Anyways, you would kind of be a mechanic with wood walking, physical skills. You would be with other tradesmen from other agencies.

You would have been picked for being a solid, professional NCO who knows his skill set. Older, tired, way more skilled 1st Sgts and CSM’s and officers, a mafia of reputations would of vouched for you. Any funny business and you’d be right back at Bragg and would never be asked to go so much as to get coffee again. You’d be on a loser backwater A-team, if you were lucky.

Basically, the guys that have and do, don’t talk. Even to their old buddies. Word gets out that you were out and about, and talked later, even to your team mates. You are done. In my day ( Fayetteville Bar Wars ) no one thought twice of guys on the company roster board, but unseen for years. If some one came back, a little fatter and rusty, you didn’t ask, they didn’t tell. There is a reason that SF was called ‘Quiet Professionals’ and it wasn’t because of walking in the woods barefoot.

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