Iraqi oil engineers are moonlighting as weapons developers, inventing remote-controlled rocket launchers and other devices for al-Hashid al-Shabi (Popular Mobilization) militia forces fighting against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) organization.The weapons program is a small-scale operation funded by private donations to an independent employees’ committee of the state-run South Oil Company (SOC). While the engineers are not mass-producing the weapons, their contributions highlight …