The making of Abu Risha

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Sappho

Thanks to Keld Bach for his excel­lent find and thanks for Greg Palast who as far as I know the only jour­nal­ist who dare to tell the truth, and this post is only to fill the miss­ing link in his “Bush’s Fake Sheik Whacked:The Surge and the Al Qaeda Bunny”.

Why every sin­gle word Mr. Palast said is true?

First, peo­ple must under­stand the Iraqi tribes hier­ar­chy structure:

I will use Wikipedia ter­mi­nol­ogy because it helps to under­stand the rest of this post:

Tribe [the mother branch]—–>Federations—–>Clans——>House—-Family.

The tribe’s head is the “Don Cor­leone” of the tribe, he is the per­son with the one, last last word.

Where is Abu Risha in this structure?

He was a third degree Sheik, the head of the Rishawi clan„ but was he?

On 12-Oct-2006 Islam­memo reported the Head of Rishawi clan “mys­te­ri­ously” died in a car acci­dent on the highway.

Sheikh Saad Kha­laf one the Rishawi Tribe elders died in a car acci­dent on the High­way between Bagh­dad – Abu-Gharaib

Abu Risha became the Head of the clan, but the head of his Fed­er­a­tion rejected him saying:

A state­ment issued by clan Abu Rishah tribe in Anbar province

Clar­ify that the named Abdul Sat­tar Abu Rishah is related to us only by kin­ship and descent

Great Iraqi people

Peo­ple of Anbar governorate

May peace, God’s mercy and bless­ings be upon you … And yet…

We heard about clan-elders Con­fer­ence in Anbar headed by Abdul Sat­tar Abu Rishah , the Con­fer­ence deci­sions and rec­om­men­da­tions are incom­pat­i­ble with our tribal val­ues and morals, polit­i­cal and religious.

These deci­sions meant to serve the occu­pa­tion forces and their agents and harm­ful to the inter­ests of the country.

There­fore, we declare on behalf of clan Abu Rishah our con­dem­na­tion of this Con­fer­ence and its deci­sions also wish to clar­ify that the named Abdul Sat­tar Abu Rishah is related to us only by kin­ship and descent but he not a clan chief or autho­rized to speak of its name.

Long live the great Iraqi peo­ple
Long live the Iraqi national resis­tance
The shame and stigma of trai­tors and agents

Sheikh Rashid Abu Hazim Abu-Risha Dulaimi
Sep­tem­ber / 2006

It was a very seri­ous mat­ter, but the pre­vi­ous state­ment was not enough, high rank tribal chiefs involved in the mat­ter, and they issued a warn­ing:

Announced today in Anbar the removal of four clan elders, who met with Prime Min­is­ter, the occu­pa­tion pup­pet Nouri Al-Maliki.

Reported today – Sat­ur­day that tribes chief held a meet­ing in the Mahamdeh-federation [extends from Fal­lu­jah and Ramadi] house, attended by more than twenty tribes chiefs rep­re­sent large Sunni clans in the province and the fol­low­ing was decided:

First: Removal of Sheikh Sat­tar Alr­ishawi [Abu Risha], Sheikh Hamid Farhan, Sheikh Dhiab, .……[I will spare other names] who recently joined a del­e­ga­tion and met with Maliki and the occu­pa­tion forces.

Sec­ond: The Sheikh above to be con­sid­ered pari­ahs and their words is not effec­tive among the clans.

Third: The Sheikh are con­demned to death if they enter Anbar province.

Forth: The Sheiks to be con­sid­ered trai­tors to the reli­gion of God, the nation, their sons and rel­a­tives must declare their inno­cence dur­ing three days only.

Fifth: the appoint­ment of new other clan elders and dec­la­ra­tion of loy­alty to them dur­ing a period not exceed­ing one week in order to pre­vent seduction.

Sixth: Any agree­ments between the clans men­tioned above and the gov­ern­ment of the occu­pa­tion or the occu­pa­tion itself are invalid.

It is note­wor­thy to say that the men­tioned above are not res­i­dents in Iraq since 2004, and they are con­demned to death because they are col­lab­o­rated with the occupation.….

That is extremely seri­ous mat­ter, after this warn­ing Abu-Risha [and his com­pan­ions] is “dead man walking”.

So seri­ous that Islam­memo reported:

Pro-occupation Iraqi gov­ern­ment allo­cated spe­cial suite in Milia Man­sour Hotel for Abu Risha after tribes in Ramadi con­demned him to death.

Al-Maliki ordered that the Fifth floor in the Hotel over­look­ing at the Tigris river to be allo­cated spe­cially for Abu Risha and his fol­low­ers, as a honor for his posi­tion in Ramadi, which is con­sid­ered as betrayal among the city residents.

The rest is his­tory and I hope I added more infor­ma­tion to Greg Palast’s investigation.

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6 Responses to The making of Abu Risha

  2. Alison says:
    September 21, 2007 at 11:19

    I clicked on the link given by Tarouqi above to an arti­cle on Aljazeera.net which makes very depress­ing read­ing. Iraqi tribes ought to be UNITING AGAINST THE US OCCUPATION — as they were doing prior to the liq­ui­da­tion of Pres­i­dent Sad­dam Hus­sein — not against the US proxy / false flag out­fit Al-Qaeda!!! The lat­ter is a crea­ture of the Saudi, Egypt­ian and Jor­dan­ian intel­li­gence agen­cies. Its pri­mary pur­pose is to drive GULLIBLE Iraqis into the arms of the US and it seems to be succeeding.…Are these tribal lead­ers as naive as they appear to be or have they been bought??

  3. Tarouqi says:
    September 21, 2007 at 21:31

    Al-Qaeda = US Occu­pa­tion = Iran­ian militia …

    check this out: http://uruknet.info/?p=m36497&s1=h1

  4. Rubin says:
    September 23, 2007 at 09:54

    The USA is fan­tas­tic Lady­Bird, We came to make Peace in Iraq and build a Democ­racy after Saddam!

    1) IRAQ: Stage ONE, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
    First Year: Amer­ica Cuts through Saddam’s Army like a HOT KNIFE through But­ter. Sad­dam scram­bles into a dirty hole up North while his Rapist Sons hide up near Mosul.

    The Rapists Sons are killed in a shoot em up with Amer­i­can Sol­diers and Daddy is hauled in for some inter­ro­ga­tion, and a fair trial, fol­lowed by a right­eous Hanging!!

    2) Iraq Stage TWO: An Elec­tion and Con­sti­tu­tion. A tremen­dous Vic­tory for the Iraqi peo­ple, In-spite of all its inter­nal and exter­nal ene­mies the Iraqi peo­ple showed great courage and patients and voted for free­dom and lib­erty from the feu­dal past and old tribal ways!

    3) Iraq Stage THREE: After the Iraqi elec­tion the evil bas­tards really tried their best to destroy the spirit of the Iraqi folks and the Coali­tion Armed Forces who were putting their lives on the line along with the Free­dom Lov­ing IRAQIS!!

    4) Iraq Stage FOUR: BY THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2007 MAJOR SECTIONS OF THE IRAQI SUNNI “RESISTANCE” SWITCHED SIDES AND JOINED THE GOVERNMENT AND COALITION AND AMERICAN ARMED FORCES!

    ALL THAT WAS LEFT WERE THE BLOGGING E-SURGENTS AND SOME FEW SHIITE QUDS RESISTANCE TYPES!

    LOL!

    Lady­bird, the GOOD NEWS IS is that the Iraqi peo­ple are going to be the winners !!

    Amer­ica will have bases in Iraq and we will all be friends!!

    RamaDamaDingDong!!

    ;-)

  5. Alison says:
    September 25, 2007 at 09:41

    Indeed, per­ma­nent mil­i­tary bases and con­trol of Iraq’s oil reserves are the alpha and omega of US Iraq pol­icy. US pres­i­dents have blithely sac­ri­ficed the lives of over 2 mil­lion Iraqis (and count­ing) since 1991 in pur­suit of these wholly ille­git­i­mate neo-imperialist aims.

    Not con­tent with geno­cide, the US has destroyed the Iraqi state, wrecked its econ­omy, torn the fab­ric of Iraqi soci­ety to shreds, con­t­a­m­i­nated Iraq’s envi­ron­ment for decades, maybe cen­turies, with depleted ura­nium. It has also wan­tonly dev­as­tated the most ancient and pre­cious cul­tural her­itage of mankind in the cra­dle of civilisation….

    And still Amer­i­cans (and Brits) think they are God’s gift to humanity!

    And being utterly shame­less, they dare to point blood-soaked fin­gers at Pres­i­dent Sad­dam Hus­sein, the engi­neer of the Iraqi National Resis­tance and the Guardian Mar­tyr of Iraq, who will­ingly sac­ri­ficed every­thing – power, wealth, per­sonal free­dom, his sons and his own life – in defence of his beloved home­land, its pride and hon­our, its eco­nomic sov­er­eignty and polit­i­cal independence.

    I pray to God from the bot­tom of my heart that Sad­dam Hussein’s stead­fast refusal to give in to US black­mail will not have been in vain…..

    I will close with a quote from PRESIDENT SADDAM’S RAMADAN LETTER to his broth­ers in the Resis­tance (14 Octo­ber 2006):

    “Resist­ing the invaders is a right and a duty, and the same goes for those who col­lab­o­rated with the west­ern or east­ern enemy. But I ask you, broth­ers and com­rades in the var­i­ous fac­tions of the coura­geous Iraqi Resis­tance, and you, the proud peo­ple of Iraq, to be guided by wis­dom and jus­tice in your Jihad and not to suc­cumb to reck­less­ness. Don’t engage in tit-for-tat vio­lence and don’t attack for the sake of attack­ing when the oppor­tu­nity arises while you are car­ry­ing a gun. I ask you not only to exer­cise tol­er­ance, but to keep the door of for­give­ness open for those who have lost their way, espe­cially if they show some hope of being guided. Remem­ber that it is your duty to save those who have gone astray from them­selves and to show them the right path. Keep the door of for­give­ness open for every­one until the day of lib­er­a­tion, which is com­ing soon, God willing…

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