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Bin Laden considered me extreme and sneered when I wrote, \u201cAt your service, Osama.\u201d Good riddance. Al Qaeda\u2019s irrelevant. Come and join Shabaab. I shall liberate all Muslims. As a prerequisite I\u2019ve eliminated many former allies who were soft and didn\u2019t understand we must ceaselessly destroy invading Kenyans and Somali traitors and foreign teachers and aid workers and anyone who listens to music or plays soccer. Transgressors may be shot, stoned, or hacked. People respect strength, and everyone in Somalia\u2019s afraid of me. They know I\u2019m a skilled accountant and jihadist who can recruit, and they admire my intellect and deep reading and poetry I recite about slaughtering infidels. They\u2019re excited Shabaab killed and wounded almost three hundred in a Nairobi shopping mall. They\u2019re certain I\u2019ll fight until Somalia is free. And they\u2019re impressed I\u2019ll keep fighting all over the world. I can\u2019t imagine life without war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bin Laden considered me extreme and sneered when I wrote, \u201cAt your service, Osama.\u201d Good riddance. Al Qaeda\u2019s irrelevant. Come and join Shabaab. I shall liberate all Muslims. 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