US-Backed Sunni Shiek Killed In Anbar Bombing

Associated Press:

The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President Bush, police and tribal leaders said.

Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha was leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the Anbar Awakening -- an alliance of clans backing the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Comments

[MartyGee]

08:59 PM on 09/13/2007

This is another example of the liberal media running roughshod over the truth. While it's technically true that Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha was killed by an explosive device - the device damaged a relatively small percentage of his body. Many of his organs were undamaged. Does the liberal media tell you this - not a chance.
A year ago the IED would have damaged 57% more of Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha. The NYT won't mention in Friday's edition the good news - his head wasn't severed and that he was still recognizable as a human being.

[getoffmedz]

07:16 PM on 09/13/2007

Wonder if the Bush photo-op price tag of $2000 has gone down some?

lol

[dreamgypsy]

06:42 PM on 09/13/2007

Oops looks like you could have had the goods on George! George/Blackwater had to have you taken out :( now where is the money that he paid you? or was that the problem marked bills? Interesting that this failed/false commander in thief/chief can use WE the Peoples monies to sponsor terrorism! now thats just one more impeachable crime for George and his Dick/dicks and dickettes!
may you rest in peace Shiek psst you didnt happen to leave a paper trail did you?
peace

[siri2k]

06:37 PM on 09/13/2007

ya know IT OCCURS TO ME, just 9 days earlier and the "assissins" woulda got a TWOOOFER!

someone needs to tell em THEY ARE LAGGING HERE!

[e-mail]
www.legitgov.org

[Ihaveadream]

06:03 PM on 09/13/2007

Many commented on how unhappy he looked having his photo taken with the smiling idiot. Sure looked to me like he really didn't want to be in the same room. Could it have been that he knew he was a marked man just by doing so.

[plages]

05:42 PM on 09/13/2007

Sheik hands with bush, and die for a lie!

[BluMoonRising]

05:27 PM on 09/13/2007

You can tell by the look on this guys face he knew his fate was written when the flash went went off......

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/13/sattar-abu-risha/

[forpeace]

04:57 PM on 09/13/2007

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You Invade, make people become Refugees and DO NOT even accept them entering USA!!!!!

There are 2,000,000 Iraqi Refugees since US Illegal Invasion

This is the saddest news:
TWO Iraqi families recently arrived in Atlanta.

"It's a very slow response to this crisis," says Ellen Beattie, with the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta.

After just a trickle over the spring and summer, 529 refugees arrived in August. Sauerbrey says the goal is for another 500 to 700 to arrive by the end of this month.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14360698

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[cdnnewsjunky]

05:13 PM on 09/13/2007

Hmmm, maybe the descendants of the refugees will arrive eventually, I don't think too many of the original refugees will be alive 238 years from now. That is some streamlined system to deal with the crisis, I guess that's anexample of that American "ingenuity" that apparently some Americans supposedly posses.

[bumpersticker]

04:50 PM on 09/13/2007

"We will stop terrorism by occupying an oil rich Arab/Muslim country" - has got to be in the Stupidity Hall of Fame.

How on God's green earth can such insanity be tolerated by a nation that claims to be intelligent?

Set your clocks - in just a few hours GW Bush will personally eacort us through the Hall of Fame. 300 Billion dollar ticket please, and stay behind the velvet ropes so you don't touch the dead and dying.

[sugarmoes]

04:46 PM on 09/13/2007

isn't this sorta a message? sorta like... back bush and you die. what would the opposite of that be? oh yeah... stay away from bush and you live. so... tonight bush will spin this that allies dying is success... right?

[sugarmoes]

04:45 PM on 09/13/2007

boy oh boy that bushie just turns everything to gold when he touches it... don't he? wow! what progress! this must mean the surge is STILL working... right bush?

[HumeSkeptic]

04:42 PM on 09/13/2007

Killing a human being is wrong and it would not solve any problems. However, if the Sheik was killed by Iraqis freedom fighters, and not by al Qaeda, the killing is understandable.

[tcuoohjohn]

04:48 PM on 09/13/2007

Thing about the Arab world is when you go looking for motive there are at least 5 people, groups etc who want to kill any given arab.

Abu Risha was an organizd crime figure in Ramadi. So the list of suspects involves Shias, Sunni Insurgents, Iraqi Interior ministry folks, Kurds, A rival Sunni Criminal gang or even an ambitious member of his own clan.

[SmellyOne]

05:22 PM on 09/13/2007

Hey HumeSkeptic...

It's good to see you've taken on a "God Complex", judging who is worthy of being murdered and who isn't. Kind of makes you seem like a Republican.

By the way, please read Al Jazeera's take on the Sheik. He was part of the solution.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B7A350EF-CAD1-4984-9B0F-DAC667C50453.htm

Your logic is mind-numbing. For someone who likes to point at poeple and judge them as stupid, you have proven with this post that you are less than a thinking man at times.

You've called me "depraved" recently, although you never justified it, and I don't think you can...

...I think your above comment is depraved.

And your "freedom fighters"... are you sure they are fighting for freedom? Or are they fighting for power?

[HumeSkeptic]

05:38 PM on 09/13/2007

What is "God Complex", Smelly? I never met the woman, so I don't know what her complex is.

"Your logic is mind-numbing." - Only to numb mind, Smelly, not to normal minds.

Freedom fighters are always fighting for freedom, otherwise they wouldn't be called freedom fighters. See the connection, Smelly?

Now, power might come with freedom, that's true. Just as we the people have more "power" after we kicked the British out.

Do you see now how stupid you are, Smelly?

[tcuoohjohn]

04:42 PM on 09/13/2007

World's shortest Book....


" 10 Days of Glory" by Sheik Sattar Abdul Abu Risha.

[geobushono]

04:04 PM on 09/13/2007

seems like the Sunnis know how to take care of their traitors.

[tomcat27834]

03:41 PM on 09/13/2007

TRAGIC CONFIRMATION !! Anything or anyone GWBush touches or praises, turns to shit !!

Arrogance, daddy's friends, old money can't save GWBush now....and the REAL TRAGEDY are the BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN who serve this wonderful country of ours - have to serve under a man that never deserved the honorable distinction of commander-in-chief. God help us all.