Posted on 09/22/2004 3:31:37 AM PDT by Nepalis
By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer
AMMAN, Jordan - The spiritual leader of the most active insurgency group in Iraq (news - web sites), Tawhid and Jihad, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake, a Jordanian 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 an aide to Tawhid and Jihad's leader, the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The al-Qaida-linked group is blamed for some of the biggest attacks in Iraq, such as the bombing of the U.N. headquarters last year, and the beheadings of foreign hostages. Al-Zarqawi is believed to have personally decapitated the American hostage Eugene Armstrong on Monday.
Al-Shami, a Jordanian of Palestinian extraction 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, soldiers and police officers.
"We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker said on the tape.
The an independent Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad quoted al-Shami's family on Wednesday as confirming the death. It said the family was preparing a wake in the east Amman suburb where al-Shami lived before he went to Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion last year.
The pan-Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera reported al-Shami's death earlier in the week, quoting unidentified relatives.
Allahu Fubar!
It's tough shi'ite for Abu Anus..
I just hope he saw it coming.
He saw it coming - but appears to have confused it with something else:
"We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker said on the tape.
Burn in hell, holy man. Your cockroach pal is next.
No kidding sometimes it is worse around here than when my kids were little and we were on the way to Grandma's.
Agreed. It's time to see what an FAE can do in an urban environment like Fallujah.
Do you really want some satisfaction!
Do you want to get thrilled.
Do you really want to see how our troops deal with these scumbags, the try this:
http://www.xmission.com/~knhmeads/224Helicopter_kills.mpeg
And let me know.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
What he might have found instead is 72 demons ready to use him for the same purpose.
"The coalition just doesn't kill indiscriminately, while the terrorists do. And God bless the coalition for that! "
Nicely said Jarhead. Thank you for your service.
72 white raisins!!! I thought I was supposed to have 72 virgins!!!
Great news! We've finally graduated from the Ariel Sharon school of kicking terrorist ass. Hit 'em where it hurts!
If the AP is willing to call a terrorist a spiritual leader, maybe they would tighten their descriptors a bit if we officially included spiritual leaders in our definition of "target".
The missile just happened to be in the neighborhood. Bad luck that he ran into it. Accidents do happen.
The MSM is so predictable.
Ain't technology wonderful!
WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!! Burn in Hell a$$hole
Yeah, by now they're running out of virgins. Must be ready to subsitute _________ (insert favorite animal here).
" REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby
It really makes me uncomfortable to see that that these embeds with the KillerKorps have free passage to run back and forth between the two sides. Is their"sympathy for the devil" that enables them to embed faked? Or is it real? Who nows what they are up to. And since they have the sniffer on for ZarKawi'sKillerKorps, how about a little GPS monitoring on THEM?
"They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue. That's the Chicago way."
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