An Iraqi policeman stands guard at a checkpoint beneath a portrait of Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, who had founded and led the Anbar Awakening, in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 29, 2009. The Abu Risha clan paid a heavy price in the uprising against al-Qaida that helped turn the tide of the Iraq war: 30 relatives were killed, including their leader. Yet in the family home these days, the talk is less about the war and more about a possible new alliance that steps across the religious divide to stabilize Iraq and build peaceful postwar politics. Since the 2007 car-bombing that killed Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha's younger brother, Abdul-Sattar, who had founded and led the Anbar Awakening, the family home has been a fortress of sandbags, watchtowers, armed guards and three checkpoints on the approach road.
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