Iraq: Interior Ministry, plans to buy new helicoptersnote

The Iraqi Interior Ministry is reportedly going ahead with a project to buy a number of helicopters in favor of the security units in charge of protection of the Shiite holy shrines in Najaf and Karbala. Iraqi PM Haider Al-Abadi is said to have already approved the project and urged the committee in charge to get it achieved as soon as possible. The following 301-word report sheds light on the project and tells what about the helicopters the Ministry intends to buy. [Briefly reproduced in TR Weekly Issue No 23/40 – Sept. 30, 2016]