[ASC2006]

Shiek Sattar wants a permanent US base in Western Iraq to counter al-Qaeda and Iranian terrorists. I think that is a good idea.

[cmsgop]

We have to do that,period...

[Marine_Uncle]

And so do I. The Maliki government has not been to shy in making public statements it would like for the US to stay for a long time.
This Shiek is obviously helping to set up a possible long term arrangement with the US.
They know only to well that Syria and Iran are no friends of Iraq. The Syrian Baathist where not sweethearts with Saddam but never the less worked on common goals. This Shiek knows full well of the ill feelings Saddam held toward many Iraqi in al Anbar. Al Anbar was a thorn in Sadddam's side for the most part.
It will be interesting to watch as things solidify between this tribe and the IG and US forces.

[James W. Fannin]

Video: Attack on al-Qaida. Link from The Great Shift: The Sunnis against Al Qaeda in Iraq by postpolitical.com blogger, on Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishaw and his war against Al Qaeda in Anbar Province.

No surprise that al-BBC ends this good news on a critical note about the extra-judicial aspect of the Sheik's endeavors.

How well is the new approach of empowering the Iraqi tribal leaders against the insurgency going? Smashingly well. Channel 4 in the UK has this superb video, which focuses on Sheikh Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishaw and his war against Al Qaeda in Anbar Province: Video here>>> Once a nationalist leader in the insurgency, Sheikh Sattar has seen the society Al Qaeda intends for Iraq. It’s not one that includes him, or his Rishawi tribesmen. Indeed Al Qaeda’s future Iraq is a society of death and plunder, where the violence of the insurgency is only a foretaste of a permanent social revolution. The real enemy, as far as Al Qaeda is concerned, is not the temporary Americans, but the Iraqi people, who are to be remade into a new form at the tip of a bayonet. Sattar came to discover this through their actions against his people. Actions which have been merciless and brutal. When Al Qaeda turned against him, his family suffered. He has lost his father and three brothers to their retribution attacks.

-- postpolitical.com