“[t]he surge did not have a role in the Anbar Awakening. Surge troops that came to Anbar in 2007 were not seen as useful… In fact, U.S. troops in general were not seen as useful even before ...

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Upon leaving the service, he wrote, directed, and produced The Western Front, a Tribeca Film Festival selection about the Al Anbar awakening, scheduled for release in late 2013. ADVERTISEMENT ...

and about the operations in Anbar, said they came to deter the enemy’s support to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.” In an interesting twist, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the head of the Sunni Sahwat al ...