Abu Tahsin al-Salihi (Arabic: أبو تحسين الصالحي; 1 July 1953 – 29 September 2017) was an Iraqi veteran sniper. A volunteer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, he is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the War in Iraq (2013–2017), receiving the nicknames “The Sheikh of Snipers” and “Hawk Eye.”[1]
Abu Tahsin al-Salihi was born Ali Jiyad Obaid al-Salihi (Arabic: علي جياد عبيد الصالحي) and was known by his nom de guerreThe Hawk Eye or teknonymAbu Tahsin. He was born in 1953, had eleven children, five girls and six boys. He was a Shia Muslim. He traveled to Kuwait in the 1970s and worked many jobs there, two of which were being a shepherd of cows and camels. He had a French rifle to protect himself and with which he hunted rabbits, from this he gained knowledge in hunting and shooting.[citation needed]
Military career
Months before the Ramadan War in the 1970s, he was nominated to travel to Belarus to train in a course and took second place.[citation needed] The first war he fought in was the Ramadan War in 1973, where he was stationed in the Golan Heights in the 5th mountainous brigade. The second war he fought in was the Second Kurdish–Iraqi War in 1974. From the start of the uprising until 2014, he joined the Sadr brigade where he participated in the liberation of many provinces in Iraq, but he didn't fit well in this brigade, so he joined Liwa Ali Al Akbar and this is where his skills began to show. He had 384 confirmed kills.
Death
According to the Popular Mobilization Forces spokesman, al-Salihi was killed as he advanced on Hawija in Iraq.[1] His funeral took place on 30 September 2017.[1]
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^"63-year-old Iraqi sniper says he has killed 321 Isis fighters since 2015". International Business Times. 25 February 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
January 30, 2023
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