Sheikh ABU RISHA: (Through translator) They killed my father and they killed three of my brothers.
Hussein and Abu Risha say their alliance with the Americans has crippled al-Qaida in Anbar province.
Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was killed in a bomb blast while leaving his home in Ramadi.
The Al Bu Risha tribe's alliance with the Americans has brought them power and prestige and money through contracts.
Sheikh ABU RISHA: (Through translator) The insurgents had the upper hand in al-Anbar.
Sheikh AHMED ABU RISHA (Sunni Tribal Leader): (Through translator) And they are assassinated a lot of the sheikhs at that time.
Sheikh ABU RISHA: (Through translator) As long as the militias are out there, I think there will never be any conciliation.
Abu Risha took over as head of the province's Awakening Council after his brother Sheikh Abdul Sattar -- also known as Abu Risha -- was assassinated in 2007.
Tribal leaders in Iraq's largest province, Anbar, west of Baghdad, which is overwhelmingly Sunni, outmanoeuvred one of their own who had aspirations for national office, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha.
While a number of the members of the council, also known as the Sons of Iraq, have been integrated into Iraq's security forces, Abu Risha has said he maintains a militia of about 80, 000.
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Abu Risha is head of the Anbar Awakening Council, a group composed primarily of Sunni Arab fighters who turned on al Qaeda in Iraq, which was made up of predominantly Sunni extremists, in late 2006 and who joined forces with the U.S.-led coalition.
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