By IRNA,
Baghdad : The Iraqi government will take over responsibility from October 1 for paying and directing the Sunni-dominated citizen patrols known as Awakening Councils that operate in and around Baghdad.
The handover will involve 54,000 Awakening members who are paid by the US military to guard neighborhoods or, in some cases, simply to refrain from attacking US and Iraqi forces.
Once the transfer takes place, the Iraqi government will have “full administrative control” of the Awakening cadres.
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