"Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist hijackings, the Pentagon hired the Rendon Group [3] to orchestrate sympathetic media coverage around the globe, including Muslim countries. The firm has worked for the government of Kuwait since the Persian Gulf War. In the 1990s, the CIA [4] hired the Rendon Group to wage a public relations war against Saddam Hussein [5]. ... Rendon helped create and promote the Iraqi National Congress [6], the exile group headed by Ahmed Chalabi [7]." The PR firm has come under scrutiny again, for receiving more than $14,000 of Massachusetts' anti-terrorism funds to videotape a state police graduation ceremony [8] in August 2002.