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'''Zulfi Hoxha''' (born 16 January 1992), also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'' (''[[Kunya (Arabic)|kunya]]'') '''Abu Hamza al-Amriki''', is an American [[Islamic State]] (IS) senior commander and recruiter of foreign fighters fighting in Syria and in Iraq.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} The son of an [[Albanian-American]] [[pizzeria]] owner, Ramadan Hoxha (1949–2004<ref>{{cite web|title=Ramadan Hoxha|publisher=Find a Grave|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73239978/ramadan-hoxha}}; {{cite web|title=Ramadan Hoxha|publisher=Ancient Faces|url=https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/ramadan-p-hoxha/15179810}}</ref>), in [[Margate City, New Jersey|Margate City]], [[New Jersey]], Hoxha left the United States on 6 April 2015 for Turkey and four days later joined an IS training camp in Syria.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} Within six months he was featured in a video where several captured Kurdish soldiers are beheaded; Hoxha is the first to behead one of the captives.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} It might be the first known case of an American IS member beheading individuals on video, and it is the first case in which the US government confirmed the name and American citizenship of a IS member featured in IS media.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} He is present in the propaganda video ''We Will Surely Guide Them To Our Ways'' published in May 2017, where he says in English "Are you incapable of stabbing a ''[[kaffir]]'' [non-Muslim] with a knife, throwing him off of a building, or [[Vehicle-ramming attack|running him over with a car]]? Liberate yourself from [[hellfire]] by killing a ''kaffir''", located in [[Nineveh Governorate|Nineveh]] in northwestern Iraq.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} Other notable cases of American IS activists are [[John Georgelas]] and [[Abdullah Ramo Pazara]].{{sfn|The Atlantic}}
'''Zulfi Hoxha''' (born 16 January 1992), also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'' (''[[Kunya (Arabic)|kunya]]'') '''Abu Hamza al-Amriki''', is an American [[Islamic State]] (IS) senior commander and recruiter of foreign fighters fighting in Syria and in Iraq.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} The son of an [[Albanian-American]] [[pizzeria]] owner, Ramadan Hoxha (1949–2004<ref>{{cite web|title=Ramadan Hoxha|publisher=Find a Grave|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73239978/ramadan-hoxha}}; {{cite web|title=Ramadan Hoxha|publisher=Ancient Faces|url=https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/ramadan-p-hoxha/15179810}}</ref>), in [[Margate City, New Jersey|Margate City]], [[New Jersey]], Hoxha left the United States on 6 April 2015 for Turkey and four days later joined an IS training camp in Syria.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} Within six months he was featured in a video where several captured Kurdish soldiers are beheaded; Hoxha is the first to behead one of the captives.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} It might be the first known case of an American IS member beheading individuals on video, and it is the first case in which the US government confirmed the name and American citizenship of a IS member featured in IS media.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} He is present in the propaganda video ''We Will Surely Guide Them To Our Ways'' published in May 2017, where he says in English "Are you incapable of stabbing a ''[[kaffir]]'' [non-Muslim] with a knife, throwing him off of a building, or [[Vehicle-ramming attack|running him over with a car]]? Liberate yourself from [[hellfire]] by killing a ''kaffir''", located in [[Nineveh Governorate|Nineveh]] in northwestern Iraq.{{sfn|The Atlantic}} Other notable cases of American IS activists are [[John Georgelas]] and [[Abdullah Ramo Pazara]].{{sfn|The Atlantic}}


According to [[La Stampa]], in the May 2017 video Al-Amriki makes an appeal to Muslims to avenge the "women and children killed by the uncontrolled bombing of (Mosul by) the United States," saying, "Are you not able to use a knife against the infidels, to throw them from a building, to run them over with a car?"<ref name="StampaEurope">{{cite news|title=Italian paper warns IS may be plotting new attacks in Europe|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1903345723/fulltext/3CFF9028B6104A95PQ/4?accountid=10226|accessdate=18 January 2018|agency=BBC|publisher=La Stampa|date=30 May 2017}}</ref>


==See also==
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Revision as of 19:43, 18 January 2018

Zulfi Hoxha (born 16 January 1992), also known by the nom de guerre (kunya) Abu Hamza al-Amriki, is an American Islamic State (IS) senior commander and recruiter of foreign fighters fighting in Syria and in Iraq.[1] The son of an Albanian-American pizzeria owner, Ramadan Hoxha (1949–2004[2]), in Margate City, New Jersey, Hoxha left the United States on 6 April 2015 for Turkey and four days later joined an IS training camp in Syria.[1] Within six months he was featured in a video where several captured Kurdish soldiers are beheaded; Hoxha is the first to behead one of the captives.[1] It might be the first known case of an American IS member beheading individuals on video, and it is the first case in which the US government confirmed the name and American citizenship of a IS member featured in IS media.[1] He is present in the propaganda video We Will Surely Guide Them To Our Ways published in May 2017, where he says in English "Are you incapable of stabbing a kaffir [non-Muslim] with a knife, throwing him off of a building, or running him over with a car? Liberate yourself from hellfire by killing a kaffir", located in Nineveh in northwestern Iraq.[1] Other notable cases of American IS activists are John Georgelas and Abdullah Ramo Pazara.[1]


See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f The Atlantic.
  2. ^ "Ramadan Hoxha". Find a Grave.; "Ramadan Hoxha". Ancient Faces.

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