Iraq: Iraq's Illegal Hunting Problem

Feb 3, 2016 | Wassim Bassem, Al-Monitor
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The abduction of 26 Qatari hunters, including members of the ruling family, by a Shiite armed group — which demanded a $1 million ransom for their release, according to the London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily — in the desert of Iraq's southern Muthanna province on Dec. 16, 2015, is still being handled by politicians and the media. Sunni parties, including Mohammed Karbouli, a member of the National Security and Defense Commission in the Iraqi parliament, told Russia Today on Jan. 15 that militias, which he did not name, abducted the hunters for political purposes.