The ISIS 'Senior Commander' Who Grew Up on the Jersey Shore

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The ISIS 'Senior Commander' Who Grew Up on the Jersey Shore
His mother said she last talked to him about a year ago

By Ted Greenberg and Brian X. McCrone

Published at 6:09 PM EST on Jan 17, 2018 | Updated at 10:09 PM EST on Jan 17, 2018

He graduated from Atlantic City High School in 2010. His Albanian immigrant family owned a pizza shop in Margate, New Jersey. He attended a mosque where "he hated people," according his mother.

Then Zulfi Hoxha went to Syria and became Abu Hamza al-Amriki, an ISIS soldier, according to his mother and court documents in another recent terrorism case involving an American.

"I am upset," his mother Ltefaji Hoxha told NBC10 at her house in Margate in the first confirmation outside of court filings that the 25-year-old is in Syria fighting for the group also known as the Islamic State. "No good. I'm very upset."

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