The story: The secretary-general of Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq (AAH), Qais Al-Khazali, is stirring up controversy after claiming on March 15 that an Emirati security team arrived in Iraq to “run” the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS).

The remarks follow rumors which claim that 300 INIS officers sympathetic to the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have been transferred...