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.
"The best news I can imagine is that a few Delta Force came across Al-Zarqawi, alive. They would have but one choice." Delta help create GROM. That is good.
"LOL. Thanks, but I saw that in a op-ed cartoon that appeared a while back right after we shot one up the tailpipe of a car full of terrorists in Yemen. I'm still looking for the cartoon, and I forgot who did it. It was a good one." Thank you.
"This makes my day, but we must do more of it.
In addition, the West as a whole needs to rethink how we deal with suicide bombers. I think the families of the suicide bombers should not be allowed to be paid by a rogue Saudi Prince or the like. The families of the suicide bombers must also be killed-- that is the only deterrent.
If a suicide bomber knew that his family would be killed if he
did what he did-- he would most likely not do it. We are being too soft, and it's killing us. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Israel should do it too. No more bull dozing of the house--kill the family. That's what they are forcing us to do, and I feel NO GUILT." That is good! Thank you.
"According to the BBC/AP, this would be the first US military strike EVER that missed all of the women, children, elderly and baby milk factories." That is good what you write. Thank you.
Rest in pieces.
Fight this sub-human scum with something they understand.
Past tense of thinked.
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.
AHHHH gee now I feel oh so sad....well not really but I'm trying to be more sensitive
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