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Iraqi Tribes to Join Forces to Fight Insurgents
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September 17, 2006
Iraqi Tribes to Join Forces to Fight Insurgents
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER, KHALID AL-ANSARY and ALI ADEEB

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 17 — More than two-dozen tribes from Iraq’s volatile Sunni Arab-dominated province west of Baghdad have agreed to join forces and fight Al Qaeda insurgents and other foreign-backed “terrorists,” an influential tribal leader said today.

Twenty-five of about 31 tribes in Anbar Province, a vast, mostly desert region that stretches westward from Baghdad to the borders of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have agreed to fight together against insurgents and gangs that are “killing people for no reason,” said the tribal leader, Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh Al-Rishawi.

“We held a meeting earlier and agreed to fight those who call themselves mujahedeen,” Mr. Rishawi said in an interview today. “We believe that there is a conspiracy against our Iraqi people. Those terrorists claimed that they are fighters working on liberating Iraq, but they turned out to be killers. Now all the people are fed up and have turned against them.”

The agreement came on a day when a series of coordinated suicide bombings rocked two of Iraq’s most volatile cities outside the capital.

In Kirkuk, an oil-rich city in the north bordering an autonomous Kurdish region, suicide bombers detonated four cars and one truck laden with explosives throughout the day, killing more than two dozen people and injuring more than 100, Iraqi and American officials said. In Falluja, a Sunni Arab-controlled city in Anbar Province, 30 miles west of Baghdad, five other suicide car bombs exploded within 15 minutes, an American military official said, killing an unknown number of people.

Violence also continued today in Baghdad, where the Iraqi police reported finding 24 bodies in several neighborhoods, an Interior Ministry official said. Eight of the bodies were discovered in one area with gunshot wounds to the head and bearing marks of torture. But an American military spokeswoman said her office knew of only 11 bodies being found.

Also today, the American military said a sailor with the First Marine Logistics Group died on Saturday from wounds in fighting in Anbar Province.

Mr. Rishawi said the 25 tribes counted 30,000 young men armed with assault rifles who were willing to confront and kill the insurgents and criminal gangs that have torn at the fabric of tribal life in Anbar, dividing members by religious sect and driving a wave of violent crime.

“We are in battle with the terrorists who kill Sunnis and Shiites, and we do not respect anyone between us who talks in a sectarian sense,” said Mr. Rishawi, the leader of the Rishawi tribe, a subset of the Dulaimi tribe, the largest in Anbar Province. Half of the Rishawi are Shiite and half are Sunni Arabs, he said.

Mr. Rishawi said the insurgents counted about 1,300 fighters, many of them foreigners and backed by other nations’ foreign intelligence services, though he declined to say which ones.

Today, he said, the coalition of 25 tribes sent letters to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other top Iraqi government officials asking for their support. In addition to the government’s blessing, Mr. Rishawi said, the tribes also wanted weapons and equipment to confront the Qaeda-backed insurgents.

“We are determined to go ahead with this plan and eliminate the gangs that claim jihad,” he said.

An American military official said tribes had fought Sunni Arab insurgents in Anbar in the past, but previously had not agreed to come together and fight them together. “Tribes just get fed up have fought them in the past,” an American military official said today. “This would be the first we’ve seen of tribes banding together.”

An Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said Mr. Maliki supported “any operations that try to resist terrorism and aims to maintain security in this dear and important part from the country.”

Mr. Dabbagh said that government officials were considering an official response to the tribes, but that there was no agreement to supply the tribes with weapons or tactical military support.

“We are grateful to them for their desire to protect their cities,” Mr. Dabbagh said, “and we are encouraging them.”

How quickly or violently the tribal fighters will confront Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and other insurgents near Ramadi in unclear. But both sides have long despised and blamed one another for not being true Muslims and for the lack of security in the province.

Reuters quoted a man who identified himself as a senior leader of Al Qaeda in northern Ramadi asserting that his fighters wanted an Islamic caliphate in Anbar. Tribal leaders like Mr. Rishawi are their enemy.

“We have the right to kill all infidels, like the police and army and all those who support them,” said the man, who called himself Abu Farouk, Reuters reported. “This tribal system is un-Islamic. We are proud to kill tribal leaders who are helping the Americans.”

In Kirkuk, Iraqi and American military officials said they could not immediately tell which groups were behind the five vehicle suicide bomb attacks. Kirkuk, important because of the amount of oil in the region, has become a violent battleground between Iraqi Arabs — Shiites and Sunnis — and the Kurds who control Kirkuk’s police and government.

The deadliest attack, by an explosives-laden truck that blew up between the offices of two Kurdish political parties, killed at least 18 people and injured 55 others, said Lt. Col. Urhan Abdullah of the Kirkuk Police.

Two minutes later, a car bomb apparently targeting a private security firm killed two people and injured three others, said Maj. Farhad Mahmoud of the Kirkuk Police.

A third suicide car bomber detonated near an Iraqi police checkpoint about 15 miles south of Kirkuk, the police said. A fourth car bomb exploded in front of the house of Sheik Wasfi Al-Asi, who had recently publicly called on the Iraqi government to release Saddam Hussein, who is currently being tried on genocide charges. The house was empty, the police said, but the bomb killed two people and injured five others.

Firefighters battled flames at collapsed buildings and charred corpses lay in streets littered with twisted car parts, Reuters reported.

In Falluja, a Sunni Arab stronghold west of Baghdad, five car bombs in different parts of the city, killing five people — including two Iraqi Army soldiers and two policemen — and injuring 23 others, an American military spokeswoman said.

While violence ripped through Kirkuk and Falluja, Baghdad remained by comparison relatively calm today, though not without several gun battles and deadly attacks. At 9 a.m. local time, a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi Army patrol as it drove by the Shaab sports stadium, in eastern Baghdad, injuring two soldiers and one civilian, an Interior Ministry official said.

At 9:30 a.m., American soldiers arrested four security guards on the campus of Nahrain University and confiscated 11 AK-47 assault rifles, the Interior Ministry official said. At 4 p.m., a roadside bomb near a market in the Shurja area of central Baghdad injured 10 people, the Interior Ministry official said.

In Tajii, north of Baghdad, gunmen killed two policemen this morning, the official said.

Omar al-Neami and Khalid W. Hassan contributed reporting for this article.

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