Iraqi tribal leaders' pleas for help ig**red before massacre
 

* More than 200 found dead in mass graves * Government ig**red pleas while tribe besieged * Women, children among the dead By Michael Georgy and Raheem Salman BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iraqi tribal leader Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud and his men once helped U.S. Marines drive al Qaeda out of their Anbar Province stronghold. He doesn't even put up a brave face when it comes to his current enemy the militants of Islamic State. This week the al Qaeda offshoot massacred more than 200 members of his Albu Nimr tribe in retaliation for months of resistance. ...

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