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(AP Photo by Charles Dharapak)

President Bush shakes hands with Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the Anbar Awakening—
an alliance of clans backing the Iraqi government and U.S. forces—during a meeting with tribal leaders 3 September 2007 at Al-Asad Air
Base in Anbar Province, Iraq. Abu Risha, the most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq, was
killed 13 September 2007 by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar Province, 10 days after he met with President Bush.

The Anbar Awakening
in Context … and
Why It Is so Hard to
Replicate
Matthew T. Penney, Ph.D.
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