Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i

Abu Abdallah al- Shafi alias Mulla Wuria Hawleri alias Warba Holiri al - Kurdi alias Dascha ʿ far Hasan Quta, is an Iraqi- Kurdish Islamist leader.

Ash- Shafi was born in the village of Gwer near Arbil. He was in the 80s in the Iraqi army, then came to the Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan. In 1993 he went to Afghanistan, where he allegedly received terrorist training.

With the group Markas ( center ), he split from the Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan, to unite on 1 September 2001 with other groups to Jund al -Islam ( Soldiers of Islam ), the emir (leader) he was.

This went on 10 December 2001 in the group Ansar al -Islam (helper of Islam), whose leader Mullah Krekar was. After the arrest Krekars in the Netherlands in 2002 or only in 2003 ash- Shafi should have become the leader of Ansar al -Islam; another name for Ansar al -Islam is Ansar al-Sunna ( Defenders of tradition ).

Abu Abdallah al- Shafi was arrested in 2010 by U.S. and Kurdish special forces ..