A chart in his office displays photographs of the area's three top tribal sheiks; Mayor al-Hathal, son of one of the sheiks; and town councilors.
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Publicly, most tribal sheiks ( the term confers political rather than religious authority ) have insisted that they are on the president's side and will hand over any terrorism suspects.
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Interior Minister Hussein Arab said in a newspaper interview to be published Tuesday that a number of tribal sheiks were negotiating the release of the hostages and troops were still surrounding the area.
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About 1, 000 people shouted in delight or cursed the Americans outside the mansion of the tribal sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad, where Odai and Qusai had been holed up.
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"Our league will be the popular base for resisting this intervention, " al-Dulemi told hundreds of tribal sheiks and leaders who had gathered from around the country.
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Mahmoud Sheil, a tribal sheik in the area, likened the killings from U . S . airstrikes in Fallujah to the slaughter of civilians under Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship.
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Allawi, who said he met in Mosul with its governor, top security force officials and tribal sheiks, called on fighters in the rebel stronghold Fallujah to give up some arms.
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"The Americans came to Iraq to wipe it off the map, " a woman speaker told a gathering Thursday of tribal sheiks and professionals to discuss the reconstruction of Sadr City.
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The Imam's position was confirmed when the imam having gained the allegiance of the tribal sheiks received the bay'ah ( oath of allegiance ) from the public.
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Tribal sheiks were negotiating the release of the hostages and troops were still surrounding the area where the hostages were being held, Interior Minister Hussein Arab said in a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
