Hans Rustad Amerikanerne har drept den åndelige lederen for Abu Musab al-Zarqawis gruppe, Tawhid og Jihad (En gud og hellig krig), en jordansk sheikh ved navn Abu Anas al-Shami.
Det var han som skrev gruppens fatwaer og Zarqawis taler. Et interessant poeng, for nylig leste jeg om Zarqawis tale at den utmerket seg ved sin blomstrende klassiske arabisk, et trekk som ikke passer med profilen av Zarqawi.
Clerics close to the family quoted by Associated Press said they had been surprised when they heard he had joined Tawhid and Jihad.
He had been a leading member of a small Salafist movement in Jordan that advocated the peaceful introduction of strict Islamic law in the kingdom, they said.
That was after studying Islamic theology in Saudi Arabia, they
