Islamic State’s ‘General Shawarma’ killed in strike
Abu Wahib was mocked online for his choice of camouflage, unibrow
An Islamic State commander who gained online notoriety when anti-IS activists noted his likeness, in his camouflage uniform, to a shawarma kebab, has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike.
The Pentagon confirmed the death Monday of Abu Wahib alongside three other jihadist fighters near the town of Rutba, in the Anbar desert, according to the Daily Mail.
Abu Wahib, the 28-year-old commander of the Sunni Al-Anbar Lions militia, was photographed last year standing next to a black IS truck in Iraq’s Anbar province, wearing brown camouflage and a black beret.
A member of the anti-Islamic State group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently posted a picture of the bearded Wahib next to a photo of shawarma being roasted on a spit with the caption #same.
Abu Wahib, who has a $500,000 bounty on his head, was regularly mocked online for his distinctive long hair and unibrow.
The jihadi commander was on death row in an Iraqi prison when he escaped during a 2012 riot led by members of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
He resurfaced the next year when he was filmed executing three Syrian taxi drivers in the desert.
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