Another One Bites The Dust

Good riddance...

The Muslim cleric responsible for the practice of beheading hostages in Iraq — including two Americans this week — has been killed in a U.S. air strike, a newspaper and Islamic clerics said yesterday.

The Muslim cleric, Sheik Abu Anas Shami, 35, was killed when a missile hit the car he was traveling in on Friday in the western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, said the clerics, who have close ties to the family in Jordan. They spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The independent Jordanian newspaper Ghad quoted Shami's family as saying they were preparing a wake in the eastern Amman suburb, where Shami had lived before he went to Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion last year.

Shami, who taught that "beheading is God's justice to inflict pain and sow fear into the hearts of the infidel crusader enemy," was the spiritual mentor of Abu Musab Zarqawi. The latter is the leader of the militant group Tawhid and Jihad — Arabic for "Monotheism and Holy War."

Hope you enjoy roasting in hell, and that we can send Zarqawi to join you soon.