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15-587: Abu Risha may refer to: Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (1972–2007), an Iraqi Sunni tribal sheikh and leader of the Anbar Salvation Council Ahmed Abu Risha , brother of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha who took over as leader of the Anbar Salvation Council Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

30-745: A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians practicing internal medicine and neurology. Whilst in London , he became the official spokesman for the Islamic Da'awa Party which was then the main political opposition party to then President Saddam Hussein . After the United States ' 2003 invasion of Iraq , he was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council . In April 2004 he was appointed National Security Advisor by

45-768: A commander in the Anglo-Iraqi War in 1941. Little is known about Abu Risha's life prior to the Iraq War , albeit he reportedly ran a construction and import-export business with offices in Amman in Jordan and Dubai in the UAE . According to The Washington Post , "he was called a warlord and a highway bandit, an oil smuggler and an opportunist". Many of the Awakening leaders are believed to have at least tacitly supported

60-733: A pragmatic and non-partisan Nationalist whom current Deputy PM Ali Allawi gives high praise in his book The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (2007). A winner of the Annual Middle East Peace Prize awarded by the Foundation For Peace & Democracy in the Middle East for his role in protecting Iraq's Christian Minority , Al-Rubaie maintains good relations with Bishop Andrew White ,

75-464: The Iraqi Governing Council . He held this post until 2009, thereafter serving as an MP in the following Parliamentary round. Al-Rubaie played an important role in various negotiations, especially those between the Iraqi government and Moqtada al-Sadr during the siege of Najaf in 2004. In 2006, al-Rubaie was widely credited with his humane treatment of the condemned Saddam Hussein, as he conducted

90-526: The Iraqi insurgency , though Sattar claimed he never did. During the early part of the insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq , as al-Qaeda'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 tribal Sunnis as part of a campaign of extortion and intimidation. Abdul Sattar's own father and two brothers were killed by al-Qaeda. During

105-552: The Canon of Baghdad . Al-Rubaie also maintains strong relations with Iraq's clerical community, particularly Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani . In February 2004, he reported that Sistani had survived an assassination attempt. In May, 2007, he made his first trip to Washington, D.C. , to lobby leading Democratic critics of the war against withdrawing troops, primarily Senator Carl Levin and Representative John P. Murtha . al-Rubaie argued that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

120-557: The attack and several dozen people were arrested in connection with the killing, including the head of his own security detail. The sheikh's funeral attracted about 1,500 mourners, including Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie , Interior Minister Jawad Jawad Bulani , Defense Minister General Qadir Obeidi and Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno , second in command of U.S. forces in Iraq, and sparked vows of revenge. After Abu Risha's death, his brother, Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha ,

135-608: The fall of 2006; in March 2007 the Council counted 41 clans from Anbar province. The development led to a sharp reduction of violence in the province and forced many al-Qaeda fighters to flee to other regions of Iraq. Abu Risha was assassinated on 13 September 2007, along with three of his guards by an improvised explosive device planted on the road near the gate of his house in Ramadi. The Islamic State of Iraq took responsibility for

150-610: The late summer of 2006, he began enlisting his fellow sheikhs in Sahawat al-Anbar and encouraging members of his tribe to join the local police force. The U.S. forces under Lt. Col. Tony Deane encouraged Sattar and provided security for the initial meetings of the Al Anbar tribal meetings at Sattar's compound in western Ramadi; these early meetings were the beginning of what grew into the Anbar Salvation Council by

165-468: The title Abu Risha . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abu_Risha&oldid=900202788 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Abu Risha

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180-516: The transfer of custody of the prisoner from US to Iraqi judicial authorities culminating in the execution of Saddam on 30 December 2006. In an interview with Vice News in December 2019, al-Rubaie displayed a noose he purported was the one used to hang Hussein, and claimed he "pulled the trigger" to kill the former dictator. Al-Rubaie is respected on both sides of the sectarian divide in Iraq as

195-512: Was assassinated shortly after becoming an ally of the Iraqi government through forming an organisation of fellow tribal chiefs called the Sahawat al-Anbar ( Anbar Awakening ), based in Anbar 's provincial capital of Ramadi , some 70 miles (110 km) west of Baghdad . Abu Risha was the grandson of a tribal leader in the Iraqi revolt against the British occupying forces in 1920 and the son of

210-860: Was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance and from 2014–2018 in the Iraqi Parliament. A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rubaie was born 24 June 1948 in Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq and left Iraq in 1979 to study in Britain . There he became a member of the British Royal College of Physicians and then

225-614: Was selected to take over leadership of the Anbar Salvation Council by the tribal leaders of the province. Mowaffak al-Rubaie Mowaffak Baker al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i ) ( Arabic : موفق الربيعي , romanized :  Muwaffaq ar-Rubayʿī ) is an Iraqi politician, and was Iraq National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and in 2005–2006 Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari and 2006–2009 Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki . He

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