Zulfi Hoxha
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]
Background and education[edit]
The son of an Albanian-American pizzeria owner, Ramadan Hoxha (1949–2004[2]), in Margate City, New Jersey. Hoxha's parents immigrated to the United States from Albania.[3] He is a graduate of Atlantic City High School.[3]
Islamist career[edit]
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 an 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][4] Other notable cases of American IS activists are John Georgelas and Abdullah Ramo Pazara.[1]
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?"[5]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Atlantic.
- ↑ "Ramadan Hoxha". Find a Grave.; "Ramadan Hoxha". Ancient Faces.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ted Greenberg, Brian McCone (17 January 2018). "The ISIS 'Senior Commander' Who Grew Up on the Jersey Shore". WCAU. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ↑ Connor, Tracy (18 May 2017). "ISIS Video Shows New Weapons, 'American' Urging Attacks in U.S." NBC News. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ↑ "Italian paper warns IS may be plotting new attacks in Europe". La Stampa. BBC. 30 May 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
Sources[edit]
- "A New American Leader Rises in ISIS". The Atlantic.
- "Shqiptari komandant". JOQ.
- "Djali i shqiptarit nga Amerika, zbulohet si komandant i ISIS-it". Telegrafi.
External links[edit]
- "Zulfi Hoxha (zulfidaman)". Myspace profiles. Myspace.
- "Zulfi Hoxha" (PDF). investigativeproject.org. Homeland Security. 29 August 2017.
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