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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 09 > Spanning the divide in western Iraq, a Sunni sheik pays court to Shiites

Spanning the divide in western Iraq, a Sunni sheik pays court to Shiites

By Anthony Shadid / The Bulletin
January 9, 2010

RAMADI, Iraq — In the unforgiving badlands of western Iraq’s Anbar province, once a cradle of the insurgency and now a muddled landscape of corruption, simmering strife and spirited electoral campaigning, no one seems ready to pardon Hamid al-Hais.

Al-Hais is a sheik, a title that conveys his....

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