Michael Skråmo

Michael Nikolai Skråmo (born 2 November 1985, presumed dead in March 2019) was a Swedish-Norwegian terrorist and member of the Islamic State (ISIS). He was a recruiter of IS-terrorists from the Nordic region. His mother revealed to SVT that she had received information that her son had died in early March 2019, during the final battles in the Syrian city of Al-Baghuz Fawqani. As of 2025, his fate is unknown.

Biography

Skråmo grew up in Gothenburg and also had Norwegian citizenship, training to become a chef. He converted to Islam after becoming interested in religions during his school years. In 2005, he travelled to Egypt where he studied the Arabic language and Islam, and after that he travelled throughout Sweden and Europe preaching salafism and announced his support for Islamic terrorist attacks. While in Egypt he called himself Abdul Samad and became known under that name in the salafist movement's social media posts. He told close relatives in Sweden that he planned to travel to Syria, but only told them that he would be working as a chef in an Islamic State controlled hospital. He travelled from Gothenburg to Raqqa, Syria in 2014 along with his wife who also had converted to Islam, and he became a recruiter of members of the terrorist group by posting photos and videos of himself on social media wearing military clothes, using Facebook under the names of Abu Ibrahim Al-Swedi and Abdulsamad al-Swedi. Al-Swedi is arabic for "the Swede" and his recruitment targeted mostly Sweden and the other Nordic countries. In videos on social media he called for terror cells in Europe to proceed to engage in terrorist attacks in Europe.