Omar Hammami addresses al-Shabaab fighters in a farm within Afgoye district near Somalia's capital MogadishuVia Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A U.S.-born Islamist militant on Washington's most wanted list was once killed in a gunbattle in Somalia on Thursday, witnesses stated, after he fell out with the al Shabaab rebellion team's prime commander. Residents in al Baate village in southern Somalia said Alabama-born Omar Hammami, commonly known as Abu Mansoor al-Amriki or "the American", and a British nationwide often called Usama al-Britani have been shot dead in a daybreak raid on their hideout. …

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