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Originally from the Palestinian West Bank town of Tulkarm , Abu Anas moved with his family to Jordan , then Saudi Arabia , and later, Kuwait . He obtained an Islamic Studies degree at Medina University in Saudi Arabia. He then returned to Jordan to preach Salafiyah theology at an Amman mosque. In the mid-1990's he went to Bosnia-Herzegovina where he truly embraced radicalism. He then returned to Jordan to found a radical fundamentalist outreach center. In the late 1990s, the Jordanian officials shut down an Islamic center that al-Shami had established in Amman on the grounds that it was promoting a fanatical interpretation of Islam. In 2003 , al-Shami joined Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi in Northeastern Iraq. He was appointed to the advisory council of al-Tawheed wal-Jihad and soon became Zarqawi's second in command. Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami was reportedly killed September 23 , 2004 by a U.S. missile strike on the car he was travelling in the west Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib . Other reports indicate al-Shami was captured by U.S. forces and is being held for interrogation. Al- Shami had been sent by Zarqawi to the Shiite Sadr City area of Baghdad to install an Al-Qaeda team to recruit former Mehdi Army militiamen looking for leadership following Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr ’s defeat in Najaf . |
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