Posted on 09/22/2004 6:30:28 AM PDT by B4Ranch
Militant Group's Spiritual Leader Killed in Iraq Wednesday, September 22, 2004 AMMAN, Jordan — The spiritual leader of a militant group that claimed to have beheaded two American hostages in Iraq has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake, a newspaper and Islamic clerics said Wednesday.
Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, 35, was killed when a missile hit the car he was traveling in on Friday in the west Baghdad suburb of Abu-Ghraib, said the clerics, who have close ties to the family. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
Al-Shami was a close aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the militant group Tawhid and Jihad. The Al Qaeda-linked group is blamed for some of the biggest attacks in Iraq, including the bombing of the U.N. headquarters last year, and the beheadings of foreign hostages — including two Americans this week.
Al-Zarqawi is believed to have personally decapitated the American hostage Eugene Armstrong on Monday.
Al-Shami, a Jordanian of Palestinian descent who was also known as Omar Yousef Jumah, was believed to be the voice on several audio tapes that Tawhid and Jihad released via the Internet. In one such tape in August, a speaker identified as al-Shami said the militants planned to kill Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (search), soldiers and police officers.
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The clerics close to the family recalled al-Shami as a calm, flexible person of moderate ideology.
Sounds like an opportunity to me...
Hang his corpse on a street light.
Friends may call...
According to the coroner, he has now lost most of his flexibility.....
Wonder where that missle came from? It is nice to have him taking a dirt nap. They should arrange a welcome committee for the people attending the wake.
Lucky for you I had just swallowed my coffee before reading that one!
So, you don't owe me a new keyboard. :-)
Great post. It's good news in 2 ways: One, this waste of skin is dead; two, someone told coalition authorities about the guy. To hit a single leader in a single car is the result of very good intelligence from Iraqis themselves. We are winning. The Iraqis themselves are growing stronger and increasingly tired of foreigners coming in and killing Iraqis. We've got to elect Dubya top see this through.
Justice has begun...
Boy that sounds like a target rich environment!
It smells like Israel.
It's a shame our missiles are so dang accurate! I would have MUCH preferred to read that his legs were blown off and he sat there for an hour cussing the designers as he slowly bled to death.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1223312/posts?page=71
And now we are giving into Zarqawi's demands by freeing the women prisoners. Great. Good job.
Well, what the hell?
They're still alive? Did a weapon malfunction?
Rigor mortis is temporary, quel dommage.
His family needs to be blown up.
That report comes from Yahoo, so the title being different didn't show up when I did the search.
Thats because his close family are a bunch of Lunatics!
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