Sheikh Abu Reesha: Iraq Sunni rebel turned Qaeda foe (AFP)

Sheikh Abu Reesha: Iraq Sunni rebel turned Qaeda foe (AFP)

14.09 11:26 - Sheikh Abu Reesha: Iraq Sunni rebel turned Qaeda foe (AFP)

Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha walks into a meeting of the Anbar Forum with tribal leaders along with US and Iraqi officials in Ramadi, 07 September 2007. Abu Reesha, killed by a roadside bomb on the first day of Ramadan, had led his powerful tribe in a relentless insurgency against US forces from the day they invaded Iraq in 2003.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Sunni sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha, killed by a roadside bomb on the first day of Ramadan, had led his powerful tribe in a relentless insurgency against US forces from the day they invaded Iraq in 2003.




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