From News 24:
Baghdad - Sunni militias which have played a key role in driving al-Qaeda fighters from Baghdad began receiving pay cheques on Monday from a Shi'ite-led government that has long eyed them with suspicion.
Up to 60 stations were open throughout the Iraqi capital to pay about 54 000 members of the US-allied so-called Awakening Councils or Sahwas which used to receive their monthly salaries from the US military.
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Baghdad - Sunni militias which have played a key role in driving al-Qaeda fighters from Baghdad began receiving pay cheques on Monday from a Shi'ite-led government that has long eyed them with suspicion.
Up to 60 stations were open throughout the Iraqi capital to pay about 54 000 members of the US-allied so-called Awakening Councils or Sahwas which used to receive their monthly salaries from the US military.
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