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Baghdad's plan to dismantle regular army

The sacking of Kurdish General Babaker Zebari, the charismatic Iraqi army chief-of-staff, is a sign of the crisis that is brewing between the Iraqi military and the Shi'ite government. Intelligence Online investigates. [...] (348 words)

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