Big Noise Films - The Ghost of Anbar

The Ghost of Anbar

The US military's progress report on Iraq is in and it's mostly bad news. But there is one unexpected success story: in the heartland of the Sunni Insurgency, a group of tribes has joined with the Americans to fight Al Qaeda. The Americans report that attacks on US forces have dropped dramatically and claim that life is beginning to return to normal. The leader and symbol of this movement that the Americans claim is rapidly securing Anbar province is a sheik named Sattar Abu Risha.

But is Abu Risha all he claims to be?

This piece was produced by David Enders Rick Rowley and Hiba Dawood with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and originally aired on Al-Jazeera English.

(20min.) Available on Dispatches Vol. 2

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