Abu Waheeb

Fahdawi was born in 1986. In 2006, while studying computer science at the University of Anbar, he was arrested by US forces on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda in Iraq. == Arrest ==

Following his arrest, Fahdawi was detained by US forces at the Camp Bucca detention facility in southern Iraq until 2009, when he was sentenced to death and moved to Tikrit Central Prison in the Saladin Governorate. Escape Fahdawi was one of 110 detainees who escaped the prison in June 2012, following an attack on the prison by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq leading to a subsequent riot within the prison. He had learnt from the senior ISI leaders he had been imprisoned with, and he became a field commander in Anbar Province after his release. Iraqi officials blamed him for a long list of terror-related offences and put a $50,000 bounty on him. == Death ==

Fahdawi killed three Syrian Alawite truck drivers in western Iraq in the summer of 2013. On May 6, 2016, the Pentagon said Abu Waheeb was killed along with three others in a vehicle by a US airstrike near Rutba. According to transcripts, Omar Mateen, the perpetrator of the Orlando nightclub shooting, said that the attack was a response to the killing of Abu Waheeb. Mateen stated his attack was "triggered" by a May 6, 2016 U.S. bombing strike that killed Abu Waheeb. Mateen's words were: "That's what triggered it, OK? They should have not bombed and killed Abu [Waheeb]." Mateen also told a negotiator that "a lot of innocent people" were being killed and, "tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq". == References ==