One of the witnesses mentioned the ghost soldiers. I heard about this back in September when I was in Istanbul. Some of the colleagues I met with who came from Iraq mentioned this. There are certainly more than 50,000.
What's happening is for a general to become a general, he has to pay a bribe, and this could go up to the prime minister's office, sometimes up to a million dollars, and to make it up, they recruit soldiers and tell them, “Stay at home, we'll pay you half the salary and I'll keep the other half.”