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The Godfather of Anbar Province

A former soccer star turned criminal for refusing to join the Baathist party and defacing a statue of Saddam Hussein is now a colonel in Anbar province's Provisional Security Force and the most powerful man in the town of Haditha, one of Iraq's most dangerous towns during the insurgency in 2004-2006.

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