American Jihadi.” chronicles the path of Omar Hammami, a high school student from Daphne, Alabama who became a top commander in Al Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group.

With the help of Omar’s high school friend, Christof retraces Omar’s path to extremism — from Daphne, where he converted to Islam, to Toronto where he immersed himself into the local Somali community, and finally his journey to Egypt and Somalia.

This Documentary also helps expose Omar’s tactics in reaching out to young American Muslims through online videos that document Omar’s engagement in Guerrilla warfare. Since 2007, more than 30 young Somali American and Somali Canadian Muslims have vanished, several of them reappearing in Omar’s videos.

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