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.
I trust, as Ted Rall said recently, that he's turning a toasty shade of brown about now........
"Thats to bad,Hang his corpse on a street light and let him rot." I am sorry for america persons. That evil devil lucifer persons, I want that persons dead!!!!!!!!
You're welcome, al-Zarqawi.
(You did say you guys loved death, right?)
Mr Shami. studying Islamic theology.
I hate the BBC. Why in the hell can't we find the people who are parading these innocents?
Good. Our troops do us proud!
Hit 'em again! Harder!
I want to hear the words "Killed Zarqawi".
"Perhaps this is a signal that we no longer need to tail him and that his top client is next." YES, I want that person dead.
Freaking A, one up the chute.
You're next Zarqawi.
I want to see the son of a pig's head roll..................
Get the Imams. That is going to be a large part of the solution to this problem. These are NOT men of God, they are rabble rousers and enablers.
How come all these terrorists have a millions aliases? Is this cause of the culture or traditions over there to give yourself a million names? Or is it something more?
His body ought to be put in a huge pig trough in the town square and have all the pigs available in there to lick and pee all over his body! Oh yes, and make sure that video goes over Al-Jaws-Ear-off radio to other Arab terrorists.
Perhaps we should kill all the "spiritual leaders" and flatten each of their "holy cities".
John Kerry released a statement that he would have killed Anas al-Shami deader.
"Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear" That is good!!!! Thank you.
The best news I can imagine is that a few Delta Force came across Al-Zarqawi, alive. They would have but one choice.
Peaceful introduction of strict Islamic law? I guess they peacefully cut off heads.
Bummer. Now they are going to get mad at us.
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