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He is a former Sunni Arab mujahid from Ramadi who until recently was fighting the US occupation. He has only a secondary education and is married with two wives. Now he is praised even by urban, secular, highly educated Shi'ites as a "conscious man", or "the kind of man we need now in Iraq".

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE05Ak01.html



Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead

Some may call it divine providence, some may call it Allah's bidding; in the end it was up to real Iraq to intervene and shatter the "surge is a success" story sold to US and world public opinion by President George W Bush and his top man in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II15Ak03.html



An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq

Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US Congress how Anbar was a model for Iraq. Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2961318.ece


From Information Clearing House



A special investigative report from inside Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18412.htm



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