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.
"Hit 'em again! Harder!" YES!
"I want to hear the words "Killed Zarqawi". YES!!! I want that person dead dead dead!!!!! That person is devil evil lucifer person!!!!
Thank you.
Thank you.
He deserved a slower and more terrifying death. In the big scheme of things, between walking free and meeting his maker I'll take the latter, but I still feel cheated.
One thing I wonder about...They had good enough intelligence to know he was in the car. Would a snatch and grab not have been a more productive option (with a news release that he had been killed made a short time thereafter) so that his knowledge of the Tawid and Jihad network could be extracted by friendly Iraqi interrogators through means unemployable by the CIA?
If we had time to target the car, my money says we had time to snatch him. :)
I do know what you write. Thank you. I want that person dead dead dead!!!!!
"Sheikh Abu Anas al-Shami was killed when a missile hit his car on Friday, according to relatives in Jordan.
Freaking A, one up the chute.
You're next Zarqawi." YES!!!! That is good
Yeah,
I want him and his whole @#$#$ing family and his friends dead. I am so god damed tired of this sensitivity crap about how we should care for the feelings of our sworn enemies. No wonder we have yet to pacify any population we have conquered in recent memory. Do people somehow think that Patton handed out candy bars to the Germans or something?
Islamists who go on about "daily humiliations" imposed upon them by "occupiers in Iraq and Palestine" should really be made to taste humiliation and suffering for a while before we kill them off. Waiting in line to get your ID checked isn't a "humiliation" except in the diseased mind of a "moderate Muslim". I wait in line at the airport, and I don't go around wanting to blow myself up at a security checkpoint for it. What the hell is wrong with these people? What the hell will it take for them to understand that they are acting like savages? We should let them taste some medieval savagery, since that's what they are so into.
"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." Amen
" wait in line at the airport, and I don't go around wanting to blow myself up at a security checkpoint for it. What the hell is wrong with these people? What the hell will it take for them to understand that they are acting like savages? " WAR!!!!
"It's a start.
1) Catch Zarqawi alive.
2) Videotape him being drawn and quartered.
3) Broadcast World-wide." That is good! thank you
Thank you. That is good :}}}}}}
Good shooting!
"Good shooting!" YES! that is good good good
"Good. Our troops do us proud!" YES your great country persons are good :}}}
"Sew his remains in a pig skin and bury him in an undisclosed location on video tape." YES
What is folks? What is scumbag?
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