Omar Hammami is one of 14 U.S. citizens indicted last year on terrorist conspiracy charges . He moved from a small town in Alabama to a leadership role in Somalia . He dropped out of the University of South Alabama in 2002 , moving to Toronto , Canada , and then to Cairo , Egypt , as he searched in vain for a setting where Islam was practiced as rigidly as he believed it should be . Some experts say extremist groups are battling for the hearts and minds of young U.S. Muslims .
Omar Hammami is one of 14 U.S. citizens indicted last year on terrorist conspiracy charges . He moved from a small town in Alabama to a leadership role in Somalia . Some experts say extremist groups are battling for the hearts and minds of young U.S. Muslims .