Our Lives In The Bush Of Ghosts 4: Abu Risha

(My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the title of a novel by Amos Tutuola. We adapted it for use to describe our nightmare.) Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was killed less than a month after meeting with Mr. Bush. We here know that feeling of the Bush Jinx. I wonder how Mr. Abdul Sattar got his nickname "Abu Risha". The name "Abdul Sattar" I assume is "Abdul Sattaar ( 'aa' being a long 'A')" which means "servant of the Veiler". "Veiler" is one of the attributes or names of Allah. "Abu Risha" could mean "father of the quill", a meaning which leads me to wonder if he wrote books. It could mean "father of the feather" which after viewing photographs of him, I would interpret as possibly meaning "plumage = fancy or expensive clothes". Anyhow, Mr. Abu Risha became a casualty. He had been briefly lionized as the hope of Anbar province. He was a Sunni and fought for the Sunni people of Iraq. He did not want the American occupation to continue. It has been suggested that once he had formed the Sunni group in Anbar opposing Al Qa'ida, his usefulness to the US occupation was over, especially since he did not support a continued American presence in Iraq. Man Ya'rif? He was killed by a roadside bomb near his dwelling. It has all the appearances of a well carried out attack. Assume one is in an all out civil war, assume one has a l role of leadership, assume the enemy hates your guts...how does the enemy infiltrate right next door - as it were - and leave a bomb on your doorstep without the security forces of your own and your allies knowing anything at all? I mean, I could understand how a sniper could shoot one from afar, but not how the Al Qa'ida essentially came right up the driveway. He was our ally on the force of the old maxim: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. His life has underscored the truth of the whole situation: the enemy of peace is AL QA'IDA !! It always was and continues to be so. It was not Iraq under Saddam Hussein! Our expensive detour into Iraq is an unmitigated human disaster, not only for the quick and dead now, but for the future, for those crippled by war, for those who do not have services it is the duty of a government to provide because the money has been squandered...for the children of these and for their childrens' children. Excoriate the names of those responsible.