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The program was seen as unsuccessful, with at one point some US$ 63 million spent to recruit and train 69 troops for the FIF, and the program was dissolved in April 2003. The FIFF never numbered more than 500 troops. The units were also seen as undisciplined and pro-Shia and anti-Sunni, and engaged
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Flag of the Free Iraqi Forces (FIF), seen on Free Iraqi Forces militiamen’s uniform as a flag sleeve patch, and sometimes flown during the invasion of Iraq.
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in preparation for the war. Recruitment, however, fell well below the target number, and were of dubious military utility, ranging from ages 18 to 55.
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government-in-exile. The specifically paramilitary branch of the program was also known as the
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Weapons of Mass
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Command of the Armed Forces, Resistance and Liberation in Iraq
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151:) were a militia made up of Iraqi expatriates, who served in the
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Anthony H. Cordesman; Emma R. Davies (30 December 2007).
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was to recruit and train 3,000 Iraqi expatriates in
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366:. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 58–.
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246:. DIANE Publishing. pp. 48–.
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512:Facilities Protection Service
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712:Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas
687:Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces
677:Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba
604:Popular Mobilization Forces
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93:United States of America
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970:Sinjar Resistance Units
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161:Iraqi National Congress
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19:Free Iraqi Forces (FIF)
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587:and others
557:New Return
522:Ba'athists
484:Iraqi Navy
474:Iraqi Army
224:References
207:Operations
175:projects.
66:Allegiance
1054:Abu Theeb
846:16Brigade
807:Peshmerga
707:Hezbollah
614:Abu Deraa
126:Dissolved
1056:'s group
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883:militias
834:militias
800:militias
746:militias
597:militias
585:Militias
1002:Salafis
832:Turkmen
798:Kurdish
545:Al-Awda
417:in the
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