Regarding the incidents of Feb. 19, 2013, a source in Iraqi intelligence told Al-Monitor, “An armed militia wearing an official military outfit executed eight members of al-Sahwa in the city of Tuz Khormato (north of Baghdad).”
The al-Sahwa forces were formed by the U.S. Army in 2008, but the government neglected them. Consequently, the forces members faced unemployment, while also topping the list of al-Qaeda’s assassination targets.