Abu Anas al-Shami

Shaykh
Abu Anas Al-shami
أبو أنس الشامي
Born
Kuwait
Died16 September 2004
Cause of deathAir strike
Alma materIslamic University of Madinah
OrganizationJama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad

Abu Anas al-Shami (Arabic: أبو أنس الشامي; died 16 September 2004) was a senior leader in the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad militant group during the Iraq War. He was a Palestinian from Tulkarm city in the West Bank,[1][2] born in Kuwait in 1969.

According to the late ISIS cleric Turki al-Binali, he mentored Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the late spokesperson of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[3]

  1. ^ Zarqawi’s Palestinian No. 2 Dies in US Targeted Assassination
  2. ^ People from Tulkarm, Books Llc, General Books LLC, ISBN 9781158586745, 2010
  3. ^ Tore Hamming, "The Hardline Stream of Global Jihad: Revisiting the Ideological Origin of the Islamic State" in CTCSENTINEL, JANUARY 2019, VOLUME 12, ISSUE 1