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Obama meets rebels in Iraq

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met leaders of local anti-Qaeda fighters.

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US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited the former rebel bastion of Anbar in western Iraq where he met leaders of local anti-Qaeda fighters.

Jamal al-Mashhadani, spokesman for Anbar provincial council, said Obama travelled to Ramadi, the provincial capital, and met the governor, Mamoon Sami Rasheed, and several leaders of anti-Qaeda groups.

Among them was Sheikh Ahmed Abu Reesha, head of the Anbar Awakening Council, the main grouping formed in September 2006 to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants.

The group was set up by Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha who was slain by a suicide bomber near his Ramadi home in September 2007, just days after a meeting with US President George W Bush.

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