'Military Report on Iraq. Area 2 (Upper Euphrates)' [‎49r] (102/140)

They gave no further trouble until the summer of 1920.
On 12th August of that year Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Leachman..
C.I.E., D.S.O., the Political Officer of the Dulaim division,
was treacherously murdered near Khan Nuqtah by Shaikh
Dhari and his two sons, Sulaiman and Khamis. This was the
signal for the whole of the Zoba’ to rise and join the insurrection.
The railway and telegraph lines between Baghdad and Fallujah
were cut, and Ramadi and Fallujah were isolated. Troops
covering the work of reconstruction on the Baghdad-Fallujah
railway occasionally engaged parties of Zoba’ at long range,
but were never able to get at close quarters with them. After
being submitted to intensive aerial bombing, Shaikh Dhari
fled northwards into the Jazirah and is now an outlaw.
With the flight of Dhari the Zoba’ began to display signs
of breaking up, and on 19th September Shaikhs of the
Hitawiyin, Kurushiyin, Faiyadh, Sumailat and Shuwartan
sections came into Fallujah prior to proceeding to Ramadi to
make formal submission to the Political Officer of the Dulaim
division. These were soon followed by the remaining sections
of the tribe, all of whom, after making submission, subse
quently paid fines in rifles and ammunition which were
imposed as a punishment for the part they played in the
insurrection. These fines did not amount to total disarmament,
as it was realised that it was essential for the Zoba’ sections to
retain sufficient arms for their own protection owing to their
proximity to the desert and other fully armed tribes.
Below is given a list of Zoba’ sections which have either
become part of the Dulaim or set up as independent tribes.
Sections which now form
part of the Dulaim.
Luhaib.
Shuwartan.
Bani Zaid.
Kurushiyin.
*Qara-Ghul.
Sa’adan.
Shiti.
Subaihat.
Sumailat.
Sections which have set up
as independent tribes.
Chitadah.
Faddaghah.
Haiwat.
Hitawiyin.
Sha’ar.
Qartan.
*The main Qara-Ghul tribe is located on the left bank of
the Euphrates about 6 miles downstream of Imam Hamzah
and has been independent for the past 80 years. The Qara-
Ghul of the Zoba’ is a small colony from this tribe.