Last week, Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, the former head of the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity, testified to Congress that corruption in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government had all but “stopped” reconstruction efforts. He also said that militias funded by the government and Maliki’s rivals have systematically targeted and sometimes slaughtered his investigators.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179662