INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING - Tracing the Role of the Violent Entrepreneurs in the

Underscoring the attributed to the fact that instead PMF as an integral part of the PMF’s association with the state of integrating into a monolith or armed forces, the Iraqi Council security infrastructure, the majority tight-knit organizational structure, of Representatives passed the of the organization’s affiliates and the key stakeholders within the Hashd law in November 2016, proteges have a. [...] The the economy,” PMF Chairman Faleh translated into popular legitimacy state has been motivated by the al-Fayyadh declared at a public by reaching out to underserviced twin aims of claiming the PMF’s event commemorating the death residents and unlocking more successes against the Islamic State of the hashd patron al-Muhnandis opportunities for members of the as its own and of exerting control sai. [...] While seeking to outbid action’ force in all the concerns Iraq’s overstretched institutions, of this nation.”11 He vouched that Ever since the legal recognition of the PMF’s leadership has often the paramilitary “will prove to the the PMF as an integral component implied that the state lacks world its creativity in agriculture, of the Iraqi Security Forces, the the capacity to tackle Iraq’s just a. [...] However, and members have sometimes the PMF can be repackaged so that in view of the ideological and ignored the directives issued by the it does not stand in the way of an tactical differences within the state authorities, thereby openly individual commander’s ambitions PMF network, the “militia-preneur” challenging the enforceability of in both the political and economic label can only explain a. [...] In order prohibiting members of the security more entrepreneurial wing linked to understand how the stakes forces from getting actively to the PMF network to expand of PMF-affiliated entrepreneurs involved in politics, veterans from their activities beyond the mere in the socioeconomic field the ranks of the Iraqi resistance, provision of security and even fund have complicated the PMF’s such as B.