Liberty (advocacy group) September 2001, Shami Chakrabarti joined Liberty. After working as in-house counsel, she was appointed director of Liberty in 2003. As director, she began campaigning against what the pressure group saw as the "excessive" anti-terrorist measures that followed the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, such as the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA). Liberty became increasingly high-profile, with Chakrabarti making regular appearances in the media. She was described in "The Times" newspaper as "the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years". Since the 2015 UK general election, Liberty has spearheaded the campaign to save
Abu Anas al-Shami According to Turki al-Binali, Abu Anas was the primary teacher of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. Abu Anas al-Shami was killed by an American missilestrike against his car in September 2004 (the exact date is disputed) near Abu Ghraib, when he had been sent by Zarqawi to the Sadr City area of Baghdad. A eulogy to him was written by Zarqawi's first spiritual mentor, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, and appeared on the Tawhed website which is run by Maqdisi's organisation on behalf of al-Qaeda. Abu Anas al-Shami Omar Yusef Juma'a (), known as Abu Anas al-Shami (), was a senior leader in the