Before dawn on Sunday, Iraq’s prime minister sent the counter-terror force built to fight ISIS into Baghdad’s Green Zone and arrested 47 of the country’s own political class. Among them was the vice-chair of parliament’s integrity committee, the very body meant to police corruption…For two decades these were the untouchables of Iraqi politics, protected by an immunity that had always held. On Sunday it did not. The figures named as the ones who kept the banking reforms and the oil revenue law from passing for years were taken in the same sweep. Reset Intelligence
