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Militant Spiritual Leader Killed In Iraq(Zarqawi's friend)!!!
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Posted on 09/22/2004 3:31:37 AM PDT by Nepalis

Reports: Militant Spiritual Leader Killed

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: iraq; napalminthemorning; wot
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To: Nepalis

Allahu Fubar!


81 posted on 09/22/2004 7:08:33 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: atomicpossum

It's tough shi'ite for Abu Anus..


82 posted on 09/22/2004 7:09:47 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Nepalis
Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, 35, was killed when a missile hit the car he was traveling in

I just hope he saw it coming.

83 posted on 09/22/2004 7:10:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
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.

84 posted on 09/22/2004 7:16:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Poohbah

No kidding sometimes it is worse around here than when my kids were little and we were on the way to Grandma's.


85 posted on 09/22/2004 7:30:06 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My father is 10X the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: ProudVet77

Agreed. It's time to see what an FAE can do in an urban environment like Fallujah.


86 posted on 09/22/2004 7:34:05 AM PDT by katana
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To: All

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.


87 posted on 09/22/2004 7:34:50 AM PDT by crushelits
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To: Nepalis
A wake, huh? What are the coordinates? No reason...
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

88 posted on 09/22/2004 7:35:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning)
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To: The South Texan

What he might have found instead is 72 demons ready to use him for the same purpose.


89 posted on 09/22/2004 7:48:27 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: Nepalis
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. I guess we're finally getting some "how-to" info from the Israelis...
90 posted on 09/22/2004 7:50:21 AM PDT by Former Dodger ((Go W GO! Finish off the US Rats, then the Muslim ones!))
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To: Coop

"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.


91 posted on 09/22/2004 7:50:54 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: The South Texan

72 white raisins!!! I thought I was supposed to have 72 virgins!!!


92 posted on 09/22/2004 7:54:27 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Nepalis

Great news! We've finally graduated from the Ariel Sharon school of kicking terrorist ass. Hit 'em where it hurts!


93 posted on 09/22/2004 7:54:28 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (The message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing...)
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To: nckerr

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".


94 posted on 09/22/2004 7:56:05 AM PDT by DC Bound
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To: InterceptPoint

The missile just happened to be in the neighborhood. Bad luck that he ran into it. Accidents do happen.

The MSM is so predictable.


95 posted on 09/22/2004 7:58:32 AM PDT by snooker (French Fried Flip Flopper still Flouncing, be careful out there.)
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To: crushelits

Ain't technology wonderful!


96 posted on 09/22/2004 8:00:15 AM PDT by Former Dodger ((Go W GO! Finish off the US Rats, then the Muslim ones!))
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To: Nepalis

WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!! Burn in Hell a$$hole


97 posted on 09/22/2004 8:03:08 AM PDT by starvingstudent (ask your favorite leftist: "If there is another civil war, who do you think will win?")
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To: DC Bound

Yeah, by now they're running out of virgins. Must be ready to subsitute _________ (insert favorite animal here).


98 posted on 09/22/2004 8:10:16 AM PDT by niobe527
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To: TexKat
"AP photo/Karim Kadim"

" 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?

99 posted on 09/22/2004 8:34:43 AM PDT by cookcounty (Kerry: He began by trashing the VN Vets. He ends by trashing the NG. Such class is rarely seen.)
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To: Nepalis

"They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue. That's the Chicago way."


100 posted on 09/22/2004 8:53:36 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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