“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”......