Bilal al-Berjawi

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 His UK citizenship was revoked in 2010 by Theresa May.[5] In 2011 he was probably injured in a drone strike near Kismayo.[6]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.

  1. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-22721536
  2. ↑ Bayt al-Jinn, https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-life-and-death-of-objective-peckham/
  3. ↑ BX v. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, Royal Courts of Justice, 2010
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
  5. ↑ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/02/27/former-british-citizens-killed-by-drone-strikes-after-passports-revoked/
  6. ↑ http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/07/senior_shabaab_comma_1.php
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