Pmcarpenter Blog
Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi embodies all the (foreseeable) unforeseeable consequences and ultimate, self-defeating futility of America's geopolitical-military strategizing in Iraq. For he is the potential face of Afghanistan's Osama bin Laden, circa 1980s. For he is our friend. For now.
A Sunni Arab, Sheik Abdul Sattar leads a tribal militia opposed to the departed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. So rumor has it that the U.S. is bankrolling the sheik's larger organization, the Anbar Salvation Council, an alliance of his and 24 other tribes similarly opposed to al Qaeda's jihadist fundamentalism.
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