| More from yesterday's wonderful news. |
On Thursday, at age 29, his journey apparently ended. Amriki -- "the American" -- was gunned down in a southern Somali village in an attack ordered by al-Shabab's top leaders. He had fallen out with that militia in a long and bitter struggle over influence and ideology.
Reports of his death have proven false before, but the reports appear credible this time. Neither the Somali government nor al-Shabab has acknowledged the attack.
Amriki and another foreign fighter, Osama al-Britani, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, were apparently killed in an early morning ambush in a village in southern Somalia. For months, Amriki warned that al-Shabab's leaders were trying to kill him. In April, he tweeted: "Their goal is to kill us regardless of reason."