In addition, Abbadi revealed last week that there were 50,000 "ghost soldiers" - people who receive a paycheque without showing up for work - on the payroll of four military divisions.
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"We had four military divisions in northern and western Iraq, which means 350,000 soldiers and federal policemen before the fall of Mosul [to ISIL], but after the June events, the number was no more than 300,000," a senior military officer who serves at the defence ministry in Baghdad, told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.
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"On paper, the number of soldiers of any battalion is 750 troops, but actually, on the ground, there are no more than 200 soldiers and the rest are either ghost soldiers, deserters or missing," a senior military officer told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.
