Bilal al-Berjawi al-Lubnani (aka Abu Hafsa) was a terror suspect killed by a U.S. drone strike.
He was born in Beirut in September 1984. His parents took him to London where he grew up in St. John's Wood.[1]
In 2006 he attended an al-Qaida training camp in Mogadishu.[2]
In February 2009 he traveled with his Egyptian friend Mohammed Sakr to Kenya; both were detained and questioned separately.[3] As early as October that same year they returned to East Africa, Somalia this time; in November, Ugandan authorities searched for them.[4] According to his "martyr biography," al-Berjawi attended another training camp in Baidoa. His UK citizenship was revoked in 2010 by Theresa May.[5] In 2011 he was probably injured in a drone strike near Kismayo.[6]
On January 21, 2012, al-Berjawi was killed by a drone strike outside Mogadishu.
External links[edit]
- https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-life-and-death-of-objective-peckham/
- https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/03/15/parents-of-british-man-killed-by-us-drone-blame-uk-government/
- ^ "Drone death Londoner's Somalia links probed". BBC News. 30 May 2013.
- ^ Bayt al-Jinn, https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-life-and-death-of-objective-peckham/
- ^ BX v. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, Royal Courts of Justice, 2010
- ^ "New Vision Online : Security hunts for Somali terrorists". Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
- ^ "Former British citizens killed by drone strikes after passports revoked: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism". www.thebureauinvestigates.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-03.
- ^ "Senior Shabaab commander rumored to have been killed in recent Predator strike | FDD's Long War Journal". 9 July 2011.