Pepe Escobar Live From Baghdad: The Secret Of Iraq's Renaissance
Authored by Pepe Escobar of The Asia Times, via RT.com,
BAGHDAD – On a sandstorm-swept morning in Baghdad earlier last week, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the legendary deputy leader of Hashd al-Shaabi, a.k.a. People Mobilization Units (PMUs) and the actual mastermind of numerous ground battles against ISIS/Daesh, met a small number of independent foreign journalists and analysts.