Iraq: $1bn spent on militias since June


Issue 981 - 14 Nov 2014 | 1 minute read

Iraq’s new finance minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said on 4 November that the Iraqi government had spent more than $1bn financing Shiite militias as part of its fight against the Islamic State (ISIL) extremist group. In an interview with Reuters, Zebari accused Iraqi leaders past and present of mismanagement, poor planning and failing to reach out to Sunni tribesmen, whom he sees as the only group able to defeat ISIL on the ground. “Part of the economic and financial problem we have is this expenditure on the popular committees, on the militias, on the army, on the contracts,” he said.

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