Abu Nabil al-Anbari
Iraqi military personnel
Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, better known by his noms de guerre Abu Nabil al-Anbari (Arabic: أبو نبيل الأنباري, romanized: ʾAbū Nabīl al-ʾAnbārī), Abul Mughirah al-Qahtani (Arabic: أبو المغيرة القحطاني, romanized: ʾAbū al-Mughīrah al-Qaḥtānī) was a commander in the Islamic State and the leader of its Libyan branch. Al-Anbari was killed by a US military airstrike on 13 November 2015.
History
Abu Nabil al-Anbari was born in 1972. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, He formed a small group in city of Fallujah and took part in the Iraqi insurgency, with his group later joining Jamaat at-Tawhid wal-Jihad and later partaking in the First Battle of Fallujah. During this time, he was a companion of Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. He later traveled to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the group as an envoy to the al-Qaeda, and while he was there, the Second Battle of Fallujah erupted, in which he did not participate in. Upon returning to Iraq following the battle, he was captured by U.S. forces. Abu Nabil spent time in detention in Abu Ghraib prison before being released after a year and a half, upon which he returned to armed militancy. Following his release in 2006, he was appointed as head of security operations in Fallujah under the alias Abu Haqqi. During an assassination attempt against an Iraqi loyalist, he sustained a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
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