Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

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Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (Arabic: عبد الستار أبو ريشة‎) - Sheikh Abdul Sattar Eftikhan al-Rishawi ad-Dulaimi الشيخ عبد الستار افتيخان الريشاوي الدليمي - (born 1972 – September 13, 2007) was the leader of an alliance of Iraqi Sunni Arab tribe that opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq, and son of the chief of the 160,000 strong Albu Risha clan, a subset of the Dulaim tribe, the largest and most important tribe in Iraq. He was assassinated, shortly after becoming an ally of the Iraqi government through forming an organisation of fellow tribal chiefs called the Sahawat al-Anbar or the Anbar Awakening Council based in Anbar's provincial capital of Ramadi, some 70 miles (110 km) west of Baghdad.

During the early part of the insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as al-Qa'ida's fighters tightened their grip on Ramadi, it is reported that they became increasingly repressive and challenged the tribal leaders' power. Soon they were kidnapping and beheading innocent people as part of a campaign of extortion and intimidation.

"We began to see what they were actually doing in Anbar province. They were not respecting us or honouring us in any way, their tactics were not acceptable." - Shaykh Abdulsattar, March 2007

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