How The Economy Could Crush Iraq's Hopes -- Time Magazine
Ahmed Basim Mohammed al-Abaje is understanding about slow salary payments from the Iraqi government. He and other citizens of Baghdad are beginning to realize that the Iraqi government is running low on cash owing to the global financial crisis. "There have been some delays, but we did not have to wait too long for pay," says Abaje, a member of the volunteer Sunni watchmen-fighters known as the Awakening in the Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour. But Abaje, like scores of other Awakening members across Iraq, worries that the pay may dry up altogether. "If the government wanted to end the Awakening program, no one could stop them."
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