Wirya Salih (Kurdish: ویریا ساڵح), known as Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ابو عبدالله الشافعي; Father of Abdullah, the Shafi'i), (born in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan),[1] is the former leader of Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna and Ansar al-Islam from early 2003 to 2010. He is a Kurdish veteran of jihadinAfghanistan and Chechnya.[1] On 3 May 2010, he was captured by the Iraqi government along with seven others.[2]
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