Abu Abdallah ash-Shafi

Abu Abdallah asch-Shafi alias Mulla Wuria Hawleri alias Warba Holiri al-Kurdi alias Jafar Hasan Quta , is an Iraqi-Kurdish Islamist leader .

Asch-Schafi was born in the village of Gwer near Erbil . He was in the Iraqi army in the 1980s , then joined the Islamic Unity Movement in Kurdistan . In 1993 he went to Afghanistan , where he is said to have received terrorist training.

With the group Markas (center) he split off from the Islamic Unity Movement Kurdistan, in order to unite on September 1, 2001 with other groups to form the Jund al-Islam (soldiers of Islam), of which he became the emir (leader).

This then merged on December 10, 2001 in the group Ansar al-Islam (Helpers of Islam), whose leader was Mullah Krekar . After Krekar was arrested in the Netherlands in 2002 or only in 2003, al-Shafi is likely to have become the leader of Ansar al-Islam; Another name for Ansar al-Islam is Ansar al-Sunna (Defender of Tradition).

Abu Abdallah al-Shafi was arrested by US and Kurdish special forces in 2010.

Web links

Jihadist Movements in Iraq (en) ( Memento from August 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Dossier on Ansar al-Islam (en) (PDF file, 430 kB; archive version) ( Memento from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Ansar al-Sunnah Acknowledges Relationship with Ansar al-Islam, Reverts to Using Ansar al-Islam Name . Counterterrorism Blog. Archived from the original on October 13, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Shafi, Abu Abdallah asch-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wuria Hawleri, Jafar Hasan Quta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Iraqi Kurdish Islamist leader, founder of Jund al-Islam
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Ansar al-Sunnah Acknowledges Relationship with Ansar al-Islam, Reverts to Using Ansar al-Islam Name . Counterterrorism Blog. Archived from the original on October 13, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2010.