Anbar Salvation Council is a Sunni militia in Iraq formed by members of baathist and nationalist to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Fighting against the Americans in the beginning of the war, they have since allied themselves with the U.S. to rid their country of foreign extremist composing mainly of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. It has been reported that they have received cars, guns, and ammuntion by the Iraqi and U.S. forces to counter the islamists in the Al-Anbar province. In rescent months elderly sheiks and tribal leaders have turned away from the Islamic State in Iraq, a radical sunni extremist terrorist organization who specializes in car bombs and suicide attacks. But the group has struck back at the tribes using chlorine truck bombs and calling them traitors for working with the government.