the oddest thing about bush's best buddy in anbar, is not that the administration was hanging what it was touting as its biggest success in iraq on the shoulders of a "two-bit, corrupt petty shaykh." no, it's the impressive number of enemies abu risha managed to accumulate. now that he's been killed, there's seemingly no end to the list of suspects.
of course, the bush administration will blame al qaeda, they always do. and, in fact, general petraeus already has. but when the guy lives in a province made up of various other tribes that hate him, when he is despised by the nationalist insurgents as a "traitor," when his chief source of revenue before the u.s. started funding him, was highway banditry, how can you say for sure who did him in? it seems to me that it could have been almost anyone. al qaeda in iraq is certainly a possibility, but they are far from the only possible culprit, or even the most likely.
