'Abu Risha's assassination will be a severe blow to the "Awakening" in Anbar, says the BBC's Hugh Sykes in Baghdad.'
'This [the Anbar Awakening] is a spontaneous popular uprising against al-Qaeda, because, as you know, al-Qaeda killed our people' Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
The BBC make me laugh. Talk about not being able to follow the most straightforward plot developments. The Awakenings in Sunni Arab provinces of Iraq have occured because the Al Qaeda wahhabist geniuses over-rode two very important local cultural practises- you don't screw their women, and you don't kill their relatives. Al-Qaeda operatives care nothing about other peoples cultures, and believe only in a grotesquely simplified Moslem utopia. If you don't share their views, they'll kill you. If you are Moslem, they'll take your women as wives as of right. Both of these strategies have ruined their chances of existing long-term in Iraq.
Once enough Sunni tribesmen had had relatives murdered and daughters pro-rogued by AQ operatives, the kick-back was pretty much inevitable.
So, just to recap the BBC argument: the murder of yet another Sunni sheikh who wouldn't tow the AQ party line by AQ is a blow to the Sunni tribes and the US... somebody get these guys a dunces cap.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq are going nowhere. They are going to kill a lot of people, but as day follows night they are going to be destroyed root and brunch in Iraq, and mainly by Arab Iraqi's rather than Americans. I'm sure the BBC will work all this out eventually. Then again, perhaps not.
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