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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....