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Around 40,000 Sahwa (awakening) members have been integrated into Iraqi institutions as part of national reconciliation efforts, Major General Joseph Reynes said.
\"Seventy-eight thousand right now are on the rolls, over 40,000 have been integrated, 30,000 of those have been integrated directly into the ministries over the last couple of months,\" he told reporters.
Around 10,000 have been integrated into the Iraqi security forces, General Reynes added.
Iraqis know that Sahwa men are patriotic and heroes, they have remained in their position waiting to be paid by the government, General Reynes
“Iraq\'s authorities have taken over and while there were some bumps and some miscalculations in the way they executed the payments, and how they executed some things in the beginning, the last two payments have been on time”, he noted.
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