Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i

Wirya Rasoul Salih Hawleri (Kurdish: وریا ڕەسووڵ ساڵح هەولێری), known as Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ابو عبدالله الشافعي; Father of Abdullah, the Shafi'i), (born in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan),[1][2] is the former leader of Ansar al-Islam, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, and Jama'at Ansar al-Islam.

He is a Kurdish veteran of jihad in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

[1] On 3 May 2010, he was captured by the Iraqi government along with seven others.

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