By Omar Mohammed, for The National. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.
There is more to Iraq’s corruption crackdown than meets the eye
The wave of arrests that swept Baghdad’s Green Zone before dawn on Sunday is being presented, at home and abroad, as the moment Iraq finally turned on its own corruption. It is better understood as the opposite: the ethno-sectarian system that produces that corruption, performing maintenance on itself, removing a rival faction while leaving the machinery intact.
