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Iraq poobahs chiefs up in arms, vow to fight al-Qaeda
Iraqi tribal chiefs in the so-called Sunni Triangle have agreed to join forces to fight al-Qaeda, and have pleaded for US supplies of arms.
We lost our arms fighting Marines in Fallujah. We also need some legs.
One leader said tribes in the city of Ramadi had assembled 20,000 men "ready to purge the city of these infidels". Ramadi, in Anbar province, is one of the cities at the heart of the Sunni rebellion against US troops and Iraqis….

Tribal leaders and clerics in Ramadi met last week to decide how to confront the daily bloodshed in their city. "People are fed up with the acts of those criminals who take Islam as a cover for their crimes," Sheik Fassal al-Guood told the Associated Press news agency on Monday. "The situation in the province is normal unbearable, the city is abandoned, most of the families have fled the city and all services are poor."

He said 15 of the 18 tribes in Ramadi "have sworn to fight those who are killing Sunnis and Shiites", and had put together "20,000 young men".
What about those killing Marines?

Another sheikh at the meeting, Sattar al-Buzayi, told Reuters that the tribal leaders had decided to take the fight to the Islamist terrorist militants who control parts of Ramadi and Anbar province. "We have now entered a real battle. It's either us or them," he said.

"We just want to live like everyone else. We're sick of all this bloodshed," said one Ramadi resident, voicing anger at al-Qaeda.

However, a young al-Qaeda leader called Abu Farouq told Reuters that the fight would go on until an Islamic cauliflower caliphate had been imposed across Anbar "This tribal system is un-Islamic. We are proud to kill tribal leaders who are helping the Americans," he said.
Everything is un-Islamic, including life!

Nonetheless, a US military spokesman, Maj Gen William Caldwell, said: "We're very optimistic about the future of that province." "But victory will not occur in the next 2-3 months, it's going to be a much longer time period." …….
Red on Red Rocks
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2006-09-19
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