The Choice

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk The families housed in the resort's 535 villas are all known to Hamid through tribal or family connections. His wife is a cousin of Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha, the influential leader of the Anbar Awakening movement who was killed last week after meeting President George W Bush. "What we are doing is like Sheikh Sattar," he said. "He prevented insurgents from his area and then sheikh by sheikh, step by step, he got other areas to rise up against al Qa'eda too. What choice did he have? His father, three brothers, four cousins were all killed. What choice do we all have?"