{"id":22181,"date":"2013-05-13T00:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22181"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:54:20","slug":"a-flock-a-gaggle-of-tweeters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22181","title":{"rendered":"A flock, a gaggle of tweeters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — a testament to bewilderment ]
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It is pretty clear, I think, that Craig Little<\/strong> (upper panel) is not a mujahid from Daphne, Alabama, now living or dead in Somalia. He first tweeted on 22 March, 2009, however, and hasn’t tweeted since 29 July, 2010. Which gives him the name AbuAmerican<\/strong> on twitter.<\/p>\n

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Abu M<\/strong>, however, came later, first tweeting on May 15, 2012, and most recently on May 3, 2013. He has the Twitter handle AbuMAmerican<\/strong>, and is generally regarded as being the mujahid from Daphne, Alabama, Omar Hammami<\/strong> — of whom one might ask, is he in heaven, is he in hell, that demmed, elusive Pimpernel<\/strong>? Or still in Somalia, perhaps, dead or alive? Depending on what one believes about life, death, and beyond.<\/p>\n

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But that leaves us with two other contenders to consider:<\/p>\n

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Both these gents — the one with an “a” where an “e” would otherwise be, and the one with an _ at the end of his handle, as though you might need to crank a car with it — purport to be picking up where AbuMAmerican left off. <\/p>\n

AbuAmerican_<\/strong> with the crank handle is followed by Jarret Brachman, J. Dana Stuster, Khanserai, Peter Neumann<\/strong>, and Raff Pantucci<\/strong> among knowledgeable others — Raff also follows AbuAmarican<\/strong> with the improper “a”. And how’s this for complicated? AbuAmarican with the “a'” is followed, too, by the frankly cranky AbuAmerican_<\/strong>, by Chris Anzalone, IntelGirl, DC Gomez<\/strong> and Christof Putzel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Putzel, in case this is any help, interviewed Hammami in 2012 for CurrentTV<\/em><\/a>, long before Spencer Ackerman<\/strong> talked with him for Wired<\/em> this April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither Abu with an A<\/strong> nor Abu Crank<\/strong> have shown the kind of easy humor the Original Abu M showed in tweets like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

But then — is Abu M any more real than his knockoffs? At least he’s the most interesting of the lot. And as JM Berger<\/strong> said to Attackerman<\/strong>, speaking of the “original” AbuMAmerican: <\/p>\n

If it\u2019s a hoax … it\u2019s an incredibly elaborate one, and would be done for an extremely small audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who’s Who<\/a>? How should I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — a testament to bewilderment ] . It is pretty clear, I think, that Craig Little (upper panel) is not a mujahid from Daphne, Alabama, now living or dead in Somalia. He first tweeted on 22 March, 2009, however, and hasn’t tweeted since 29 July, 2010. Which gives him the name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,526,897,900,393,1,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-charles-cameron","category-jm-berger-2","category-omar-hammami","category-twitter","category-uncategorized","category-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22181"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22229,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions\/22229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}