Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
Citing BIll in part:

A SME (whose details I missed) was just on BBC Radio Four stating the Sunni tribal council in Anbar / Ramadi have today called for help from the Shia-dominated militias and the Iranian Minister of Defence was today in Baghdad. HE thought the tribal council's call was significant as a few months ago they had rejected such help.
There is no consensus in Anbar about the Hashd. Anbar council voted to allow them in to retake Ramadi, and others have welcomed them, while others still want them out. More people are willing to accept them because the situation in Anbar is so desperate and have suffered from benign neglect from Baghdad. The government hasn't helped them, U.S. not enough so Hashd are becoming only alternative.