A closer look at the Facebook page of ISIL recruiter Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal, aka Jammie Gammal, 42, appears to reveal an angry man focused on the extermination of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Gammal, now of Avondale, Arizona was charged last week after allegedly helping a college student in New York receive terrorist training in Syria through a contact in Turkey, in order to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said that “facilitators for ISIL fuel the hatred and radicalization that keep terrorist organizations like ISIL alive.”
The hate Gammal felt for the el-Sisi regime was clear. In a photo, presumably taken during target practice at the Scottsdale Gun Club, Gammal is pictured with an image of el-Sisi as a target. The caption on his Facebook post of the picture reads: “A shot in the eye, and three in the cheek.”
According to sources, the recruitment process and especially the self-radicalized process is fluid. It is entirely feasible that an Egyptian like Gammal, as a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, grew angrier in the wake of their loss in Egypt. That anger likely fueled his willingness to facilitate ISIL recruiting efforts.
The Facebook film montage shows part of that journey:
