Big Bad Man in Baghdad

Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on

Abu Musab Al Zarqawi

Inflating the importance of Abu Musab al Zarqawi as a leader of the Iraqi rebellion is the object of a US goverment propaganda plan, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. According to Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways." Al Zarqawi's role in the insurgency is being heralded in Iraq through leaflets, radio and TV broadcasts, and postings on the internet. While the program is purportedly aimed at an Iraqi audience, it has also bled back into the US media market, in part thanks to an intentional leak to an American journalist, Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. In a briefing prepared for Army General George W. Casey, Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, the "home audience" is identified as one of the six major targets of the war information.

Main Source: 
Washington Post, April 10, 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
Journalism
Terrorism
Propaganda

Comments

Diane Farsetta replied on

O'Dwyer's PR Daily [http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0410propaganda.htm notes that], in addition to the New York Times [[Fox News]] was targeted with [[Psyops]]. Fox "ran a video of the atrocities committed by [[Saddam Hussein]] that it received from the Pentagon's psychological operation corps."

Damon Dodds replied on

I have entered 'the mix' because I can no longer differentiate the liars from the crooks, but our representatives on the hill are not the 'shining stars' of our nations politics. No that dubious honor has be undeniable earned by the White House. All that being said, this 'Abu Zaba monkey' really has a psychotic affinity for killing innocent people. So We and it is We, because our government IS our government, failed to come up with a decent reason for going to war with Iraq, how about a WM Dee-dee-dee for the Bush crew. And now that we have identified real evil in our world (Omoma Bin-Hiding and recently this Abu Mush Zucchini) and we can't KILL THEM. Come on DoD, get some Predators in the air. Most of the time these guys wear flip-flops. I mean really, how fast can they be?

north450 replied on

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3483089.stm
The reward was increased in early 2004, after American authorities intercepted a letter which, they claimed, confirmed he was working with al-Qaeda to drive the US out of Iraq.
this guy thinks he will get 72 virgins in heaven.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi hope you get 72 of these.
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/credits/rubber.html

Kkawohl replied on

Islamic terrorists use their religious ideology to promote and strengthen their causes. Western religions also use their dogma, superstitions and brainwashing techniques on the gullible. In order to counter this and establish religious rationality a new ideology must be established; this can be Transcendology.

Transcendology is the application of Transcendentalism to twenty-first century spirituality. It asserts that truthfulness and rationality in religions are truths that can be substantiated by science or those that can not be proven to be incorrect. It is a doctrine and proclamation that spiritual transcendence and spiritual interaction, if one believes this to be an actuality, could only be possible between the spiritual existence and the "spirit" of man. Supernatural acts performed by physical or spiritual beings in the physical universe are not capable of existing or transpiring.

Transcendology would benefit ALL religions and eliminate superstitions within them. It could unify them and it would eliminate superstitions, religious related terrorism and brainwashing.
~ Kurt Kawohl

Anonymous replied on

That makes a lot of sense, but since when do religious fanatics accept anything that is logical.