During the height of the battle against ISIL in 2016, the chameleon-like, anti-American, and rabble-rousing cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerged as a leading proponent of the fight against endemic corruption in Iraq, calling on Iraqis to fight the “ISIL of Corruption” even as they fought the “ISIL of Terror.” An Iraqi political analyst at the time […]
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