Dave Wray , a military spokesman in Baghdad , said that after leaving the Republican Guard Mr. Sharkawa became a follower of an extremist strain of Wahhabism and later joined Ansar al-Islam , a radical terror group that fought Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq .
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