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Ghost of Anbar

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 23 September 2007

Wars and conflicts International

The ’Ghost of Anbar’ - also known as Abu Risha, the man behind the US success story in Iraq’s Anbar province, was brutally murdered in a roadside bomb this week.

As a result, People & Power revisit ’Anbar’s Ghost’ which was shot just weeks before his death.

The story behind Abu Risha’s so-called success fuels with controversy. US officials credit him with leading Sunni tribes who killed Americans in the past into a new alliance with them.

Because of Abu Risha, American political and military leaders say, Sunni attacks on US forces have dropped dramatically and life is beginning to return to normal in Anbar, once the heartland of the Sunni Insurgency.

But was Abu Risha everything he claimed to be?

 http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...

Concerning Iraq, George W. Bush is a bloodthirsty warmonger guilty of grisly war crimes and, worse than Saddam.