Sunni sheik offers guns and gets rewards
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They know him as the sheik. But what that really means in this Sunni town is a bit of everything: community leader, public works supervisor, agricultural planner, militia captain.
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Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi is a leader of a Sunni Arab tribe that is fighting, at least for now, on the side of the Shiite-led Iraqi government and the American military.
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A man arranges smal l shells as he squats close to an anti aircraft gun in the Industrial Club stadium in the poor neighborhood of Sadr City 18 October 2004 in Baghdad, which is being used as an official weapons&#39; collection point.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, called on Friday for curbs on U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol units, which are mainly Sunni, saying weapons should only be in the hands of the government.
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An Iraqi insurgent group accused Iraqis who help the U.S. military of being criminals and bandits, referring to Sunni tribes fighting al-Qaida in the western Anbar province, according to a new video posted Wednesday.
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SHIITE militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered today to surrender heavy and medium weapons in return for the release of prisoners and a role in Iraq&#39;s political process, a spokesman for Sadr said.
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A top U.S. commander warned Tuesday that Sunnis who fight al-Qaida in Iraq must be rewarded and recognized as legitimate members of Iraqi society Â or else the hard-fought security gains of the past six months could be lost.
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BAGHDAD -- Ayad Allawi, Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister announced plans yesterday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City to cities countrywide in an attempt to disarm the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday in a first step toward bringing peace to the Shiite militant stronghold after weeks of fighting with U.S. forces...
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: To arm Sunni gangs smacks of desperation. America seems not yet to have learned that it will never win by arms alone.
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BAGHDAD, October 08 (Online): An aide to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered on Thursday to hand over medium and heavy weapons and cooperate with Iraqi security forces in the capital if the government stops pursuing members of the Shia militia and releases
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans yesterday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shi'ite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.
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An Al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq has offered rewards to anyone who kills two Swedes behind a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, in a statement posted on the Internet.
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CAIRO -- Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash.
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More and more Sunni fighters want to be allied  -  and paid  -  by the U.S. military. But they don't want to join the Shi'ite government's security forces
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A high-profile Sunni Arab sheik who collaborated with the American military in the fight against jihadist militants in western Iraq was killed in a bomb attack on Thursday.