Abu Risha took over as head of the province's Awakening Council after his brother Sheikh Abdul Sattar -- also known as Abu Risha -- was assassinated in 2007.
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Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Higher Judicial Council, said the court reduced al-Zaidi's sentence because he is young and had no previous criminal record.
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Once greeted by Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar, the president drove promptly from the tarmac to the Islamabad presidential complex - in a fast-moving motorcade of six identical vehicles.