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The Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq exist within a political and religious framework that make it difficult for the Iraqi state to control the group. Some Iraqis are asking if it would be possible for the Iraqi parliament to appoint the PMU's presidential body and brigade commanders, as is the case with other Iraqi security and military institutions.
After several PMU warehouses mysteriously exploded this past month, a crisis interrupted in Iraq, exposing divisions within the PMU, in particular the split between the PMU chief Falah al-Fayyad and its deputy chief, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
