Abu Waheeb
Abu Wahib
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أبو وهيب
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Birth name | Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi شاكر وهيب الفهداوي |
Nickname(s) | Abu Waheeb Nusayri Hunter Teacher of the Nusayris[1] Desert Lion[2] |
Born | 1986[3] |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[4][5][6] Rutba, Anbar, Iraq |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Commands held | ISIL Forces in Anbar |
Battles/wars | Anbar campaign Military intervention against ISIL |
Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi, known as Abu Waheeb ("Father of the Generous") (Arabic: أبو وهيب) was a leader of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Anbar, Iraq.[7] He was known for the execution of three Syrian Alawite truck drivers in Iraq in the summer of 2013, as head of the Al Anbar Lions.[3] He and three others were killed in a United States-led coalition airstrike in May 2016, according to the US Department of Defense.[8]
Biography
Fahdawi was born in 1986. In 2006, while studying computer science at the University of Anbar, he was arrested by US forces on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Following his arrest Fahdawi was detained by US forces at the Camp Bucca detention facility in southern Iraq until 2009, when he was sentenced to death and moved to Tikrit Central Prison in Saladin Province.[2]
Fahdawi was one of 110 detainees who escaped the prison in 2012, following a riot and an attack by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq.[2] He had learnt from the senior ISI leaders he had been imprisoned with, and he became a field commander in Anbar province after his release.[2] Iraqi officials blamed him for a long list of terror-related offences and put a $50,000 bounty on him.[3]
By 2014, Fahdawi was playing an important role in leading combat operations of the group, now know as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, in Anbar.[9]
Death
On 6 May 2016, the Pentagon said Abu Waheeb was killed along with three others in a vehicle by a US airstrike that targeted an ISIS gathering in the center of Rutba, which is the eighth announcement of his death.[10][8]
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