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Omar Hadid

Omar Husayn Hadid al-Muhammadi (died November 2004), also known as Abu Khattab al-Falluji, was a leader of the JTJ insurgent group in Iraq during the Iraq War. He was killed in action during the Second Battle of Fallujah, and ISIL's Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade was named in his honor.

 Biography[]

Omar Husayn Hadid al-Muhammadi was born in Fallujah, Anbar Governorate, Iraq, and he worked as an electrician before becoming a Salafist terrorist. He and the local preacher Muhammad al-Shishani created a terrorist group which attacked video stores, female hair salons, and liquor stores during the Faith campaign of the 1990s, and he killed one of Saddam Hussein's agents and wounded two others before fleeing to Kurdistan and joining Ansar al-Islam. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he joined the Rawa Camp, which was overseen by Mustafa Ramadan Darwish. He took the lead in the insurgents' repelling of the first US effort to take Fallujah in the 2004 First Battle of Fallujah, cementing his position within the new JTJ terrorist group. He became the JTJ's military leader in Fallujah under JTJ leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and he fought against the Coalition forces in the Second Battle of Fallujah in the autumn of 2004. A few days before 21 November 2004, he was killed by a Coalition sniper in Fallujah.

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