Sunni Muslim sheikhs join US in fighting Al Qaeda

May 3, 2007 | By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Ramadi, Iraq - Amid fields of wheat and barley, dozens of armed men emerged along a dirt road leading to the fiefdom of the Bu-Fahed tribe in Hamdhiyah, an idyllic corner of restive Anbar Province, just north of Ramadi. "Welcome to our proud sheikhs. Down with terror," read banners on the road.