Posted on 09/22/2004 12:16:18 PM PDT by anonymoussierra
The suspected spiritual leader of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group has been killed in a US air strike in Iraq, reports say. Sheikh Abu Anas al-Shami was killed when a missile hit his car on Friday, according to relatives in Jordan.
The sheikh is believed to have written the group's fatwas or religious rulings and Mr Zarqawi's speeches.
Mr Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, heads the group thought to have killed two US hostages since Monday.
The US military had said it conducted a "successful precision strike" west of Baghdad on Friday, targeting a gathering of about 10 Zarqawi supporters.
Jordanian press reports quote the family saying that Mr Shami's car was hit by a missile as he was driving in an agricultural area in the Abu Ghraib region .
Relatives in the Jordanian capital Amman have been receiving condolences for the death since Tuesday, reports say.
Fundamentalist background
Also known as Omar Yousef Jumah, Mr Shami is reported to have gone to Iraq after the US invasion last year.
Clerics close to the family quoted by Associated Press said they had been surprised when they heard he had joined Tawhid and Jihad.
He had been a leading member of a small Salafist movement in Jordan that advocated the peaceful introduction of strict Islamic law in the kingdom, they said.
That was after studying Islamic theology in Saudi Arabia, they said.
Mr Shami lived in Kuwait until the Iraqi invasion in 1990 and, in the late 1990s, the Jordanian government reportedly closed down an Islamic centre that he had founded in Amman.
Good.
America.
Thats to bad,Hang his corpse on a street light and let him rot.
I hope he lost his head.....
Too bad they don't have online funeral home guestbooks in Jordan, I'd like to leave a nice message.
Yes that is good. thank you
Wasn't here a big attack there a few days ago?
Also a nifty way of clearing traffic congestion.
Good news from Abu Ghraib ...who'd a thunk it!
Wonder if we borrowed a few of those Israeli HE/Frag Hellfires to do the honours. Seems we borrowed a handy tactic or two.
Pray for W and Our Troops
It wasn't so long ago that I would have thought that this was "way over the edge" - now I think it may not be enough
"Relatives in the Jordanian capital Amman have been receiving condolences for the death since Tuesday, reports say." Shut up, two America persons are not life!
Break out the good scotch. This calls for a toast.
Sew his remains in a pig skin and bury him in an undisclosed location on video tape.
Lucky for him he didn't have to live through the shame of having panties put on his head, instead of that diaper.
"Also a nifty way of clearing traffic congestion." That is good :}}}}}}}}}}
Perhaps this is a signal that we no longer need to tail him and that his top client is next.
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