Posted on 09/13/2007 6:14:24 AM PDT by harwood
Just breaking; killed in an explosion near his home. Some background info here:
http://alphabetcity.blogspot.com/2007/03/abu-rishah-tribe-our-anbar-allies.html
And we all know what happened after that. Could this be a signal for a larger attack, do you think? Remember, that third video just came out yesterday too. Not that it means anything, though.
US President George W. Bush (L) shakes hands with Iraqi Sunni sheikh Sattar Abu Reesha during a meeting in Anbar province, 03 September 2007. Reesha -- who has been leading the fight against Al-Qaeda in Anbar province has been killed in a bomb attack.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)
Democrats rejoice.
An associate, Sheik Jubeir Rashid, said members of the council expected attempts on Abu Risha’s life, but vowed “it will not deter us.”
“It is a major blow to the council, but we are determined to strike back and continue our work,” Rashid said, according to the Associated Press.
The tribes may indeed go after AQ fiercly because of this...but you just know the DEMS and the MSM will use this as “proof” that what they’ve been saying for weeks is true. That Iraq is lost. Just watch.
I wonder if this would have happened if the Petraeus report had not been broadcast to the entire world.
That was a couple days before WTC911. Watch the next couple days. Could be the 15 Sept date mentioned in the German terror arrests.
Probably won't. They have a sense of fatality no matter what.
Except possibly make them more determined to succeed.
My thoughts too. They’re just a bunch of traitorous, treasonous, cowards.
These rules of engagement are absurd. The death vs arrest ratio should be reversed.
I do not doubt that this was a deep cover Iranian backed operation.... Idiot Dems like OBAMA say things like “They conflate Iran and al Qaeda, ignoring the violent schism that exists between Shia and Sunni militants,” ...
Idiots do not understand the threat and have sold this country out for their own political ambitions... They (The Rats) must use this rhetoric so that they can continue to hypnotize America and they turn blind eyes toward the direct backing and support that Al-Qaeda received from Saddam Hussein.....
Al-Qaeda will embrace direct or indirect support that it receives from Iran and Iran will embrace direct of indirect support that it receives from Al-Qaeda in Iraq overlooking their differences in support of crippling the U.S. which has been sold as the great overarching enemy in the region.
That is how we must confront the Left in this country... the public does not understand this symbioism.... Easily defined as The Enemy of my Enemy is my friend.
A martyr to the Iraqi struggle for freedom from Al-Qaeda.
Killing their tribal leaders was Al-Qaedas mistake in the first place. More than anything else it were those murders that turned the Sunni tribes against Al-Qaeda. It won’t help Al-Qaedas cause on bit, except giving their Democrat lackeyes new talking points to glee about. Someone else will assume Abu Risha’s position.
Theodoric of York’s prescription for Al Qaiada:
“What you need is a good bloodletting!”
Yes, it IS good news.
“A Ramadi police officer said Abu Risha had received a group of poor people at his home earlier in the day, as a gesture of charity marking the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said authorities believed the bomb was planted by one of the guests.”
Would he or his security detail really admit total strangers into his compound? It occurs to me that these folks might have been locals known to his “tribe” at least well enough to quell the high degree of suspicion and prudence he most surely has been living with since he came out against foreign insurgents. This killing just may have come from closer to home than “al qaeda”......
Ah, hit 'em where it REALLY hurts.
Exactly right - AQ will now be only more despised throughout Anbar -
Very tough loss, he was a good man, great leader and knew the world was bigger than himself....and was willing to risk his own life in order to see Iraq (and the world) be better off in time.
Because of his actions both will be (better off).
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