Marine team keeps Fallujah sheik honest

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Sheik Abid Abbas explains to Chief Warrant Officer 2 Steven Townsley, left, where $6,000 in unaccounted reconstruction money has gone.


Marine team keeps Fallujah sheik honest
By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, February 8, 2008

FALLUJAH, Iraq – One generator for the mosque: $2,000.

One water tank for the mosque: $1,000.

Donation to an imam at the mosque: $3,000.

Getting Sheik Abid Abbas to ‘fess up to what happened to the rest of the $12,000 that the Marines gave him to fix up the mosque: priceless.

It isn’t clearing houses or finding roadside bombs, but Chief Warrant Officer 2 Steven Townsley has a job these days in Fallujah that is taxing in a different way. He gets to try and coax the truth out of guys like Abid, the son of a prominent sheik in the Jumaily tribe.


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