Fat Stacks of Cash: Iraqi Ministry Employees Get Paid

[Robbien]

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HEADHUNTER, Baghdad, Iraq – A comprehensive distribution of back pay for Iraqi government workers took place in the Karkh neighborhood in central Baghdad. The workers of various government ministries were compensated for five payless months.
More than 8,000 workers were approved for one of three stipends, based on their normal level of pay, according to Dr. Sadoon al-Zubauidi, the individual responsible for coordinating the operation with the Central Bank of Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. Army.

The mass distribution ran from April 18 through April 22, with each ministry designated a different time for the pay delivery to help keep the event under control.

“We’re well organized on paper, but on paper is not enough unless you have people who can control the crowds, because we’re thousands of people,” al-Zubauidi said. That’s where Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) and Task Force Baghdad Soldiers came in, ensuring that the several billion Iraqi dinar would be distributed in an orderly manner.

“This kind of work should be expanded,” said al-Zubauidi, “You have other departments that are out of pay, out of work. It would be a very happy thing for the people of Iraq to see that they are being cared for.”

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