Meeting the September 30 deadline for disarmament and integration of armed groups was always going to be a monumental task for Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi. He has already faced challenges of implementing the integration of armed groups that are willing to cooperate, meaning that the task ahead with more hardline groups will be even more difficult. The recent release of Abbas Al-Yaqoubi, an intelligence official from Harakat Al-Nujaba, underscores the difficulty facing the new government of not only taking a position, but seeing it through. Al-Yaqoubi was arrested for the June 2021 killing of Colonel Nibras Farman Shaaban Al-Fayli, the head of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service’s Rusafa Office, but was cleared for insufficient evidence.