Jihadist rapper wanted dead by both sides of the 'war on terror'

The Guardian

Songs such as Send Me a Cruise (Missile) land Omar Hammami with $5m bounty on his head – but he doesn't seem too worried.

Some would argue that glamorising violence in hip-hop is nothing new, but Omar Hammami, perhaps the world's only jihadist rapper, takes the genre to a whole new level.

With songs such as Send Me a Cruise (Missile) and Make Jihad with Me, the Alabama-born Hammami's notoriety has led to the US state department putting a $5m (£3.3m) bounty on his head. Not that Hammami – also known as al-Amriki, or "the American" – is letting it get him down.

On Thursday he took to Twitter to joke: "As I'm a bit low on cash, how much is my left leg going for? I figure Shamil Basayev [leader of the Chechen rebel movement] did the one-leg jihad thing."

...

Earlier this year Hammami released his autobiography, The Story of an American Jihadi, which, like his music, received less than flattering reviews. The Christian Science Monitor described it as a "strange mixture of childish humour (he writes "ha ha" a lot to indicate something he found funny) and deadly serious description of his life with al-Shabaab".

Here is a sample of his rap


Article here...

This guy is a flipping goofball....