Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Bill Roggio reports that the leader of Anbar Awakening has been murdered.

Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the founder of the Anbar Awakening movement, was murdered in a car bomb attack outside of his home in Ramadi. The Associated Press provides the details of the assassination.

In Washington, General David Petraeus called the murder a tragic loss, but also said that he believed it would not unravel the tribal coalition.

"This is a tragic loss," Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, said of Abu Risha's death. "It's a terrible loss for Anbar province and all of Iraq. It shows how significant his importance was and it shows al-Qaeda in Iraq remains a very dangerous and barbaric enemy."

Along with reaffirming the ability of insurgents to operate in Anbar, Abu Risha's assassination could raise questions about the future of the tribal coalition that had pulled together to quell al-Qaeda influence.

Petraeus, in Washington where he delivered a report to Congress this week, said he was confident the coalition will hold. In his congressional testimony this week, Patraeus called the advances in Anbar "the most significant development in the past six months" in Iraq.

"I think that the tribes will pull together and go after whoever did this," Petraeus said in an interview with The Washington Post.

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[mullah cimoc]

mullah cimoc say all him collaborator to get the bullet in head unless so torture by ameriki, or him children so torture by ameiriki.

what aemriki him do if aemrika be occupation by chinese army and some whitie amerika collaborate with foreign chinese occupier?

mullah cimoc hoping honest and good ameriki to kill all collaborator and all him family even him second cousin. maybe now him ameriki so feminize and be bossed each day by the woman not having even the one gonad.

this sheik him just a bandit and kill for money so many generation. even him name kind of joking in arabic, call play on words.

abdul sattar abu risha when speaking by shia from south of iraq sound like: him eat dung of whitie until exploding.

this favorite joke now for all him sunni in baghdad.