Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi (1986-6 May 2016) was the commander of Islamic State forces in Anbar Governorate, Iraq during the Iraqi Civil War. He was killed in a US Air Force airstrike near ar-Rutbah on 6 May 2016.
Biography[]
Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi was born in 1986 in Anbar Governorate, Ba'athist Iraq to the Sunni Muslim Dulaimi tribe. In 2006, he was arrested by the United States while he studying computer science, as the US accused him of being affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraq War. In 2009, he was released from Camp Bucca and sentenced to death, but in 2012 he was among 110 prisoners to escape during a riot aided by Islamic State of Iraq militants. Abu Waheeb became an ISI and later Islamic State commander in Anbar, and he led the offensive in 2014 that captured Ramadi and other major cities in the region. On 21 February 2016, he was allegedly killed in an Iraqi Air Force airstrike on an orchard in Hit with 20 other jihadists during the Liberation of Hit in the Iraqi Civil War, but it was later confirmed that he was killed in a 6 May 2016 US Air Force airstrike on a vehicle in ar-Rutbah. Omar Mateen killed over 50 people in a gay nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida on 12 June 2016 in revenge for Abu Waheeb's death.