This same cleric preached in Fallujah when al-Qaeda occupied the city in 2004 before the U.S. Marines routed them.
Via LWJ:
Abdullah al Janabi, the former emir of the Mujahideen Shura Council in Fallujah, an umbrella group that was formed by al Qaeda and was the precursor to the Islamic State of Iraq, has returned to Fallujah and is openly preaching at a large mosque there. Janabi is leading the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Fallujah, and has even established a “Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.” From Reuters, which details how the ISIS and its tribal allies are in firm control of the city:
In Fallujah, it distributed leaflets on Thursday announcing a new “Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” to enforce its strict Islamic code, residents said.That recalled memories of the harsh Islamic courts set up in Falluja when the city was dominated by an umbrella group known as the Mujahideen Shura Council from late 2005 to 2006.
Dozens of youths accused of collaborating with the U.S. occupation were executed on the orders of these courts.
A leader of that council, Abdullah al-Janabi, who was also prominent in an ISIL precursor called the Islamic State of Iraq, returned to Fallujah two days after its takeover this year.
“Blood is on the hands of all policemen. Police buildings were used to torture and to extract confessions … and must be cleansed,” the Sunni cleric told worshippers at the Saad bin Abi Waqas mosque in northern Falluja on Friday.
“We swear by God almighty and the blood of martyrs that the Safavid army will not enter the city except over our dead bodies,” he said, in a derogatory reference to the Iraqi army.
Janabi did the same thing back in 2004, when al Qaeda took control of Fallujah. He set up sharia courts that dispensed harsh rulings that made the Taliban look soft. He welcomed foreign fighters into the city.