Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i

Wirya Salih (ویریا ساڵح), known as Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (ابو عبدالله الشافعي; Father of Abdullah, the Shafi'i), (born in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan), is the former leader of Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna and Ansar al-Islam from early 2003 to 2010. He is a Kurdish veteran of jihad in Afghanistan and Chechnya. On 3 May 2010, he was captured by the Iraqi government along with seven others.