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This was the best source I could find for this. Heard it in Democracy Now.
Long article which states "signed off by former General David Petraeus then commander of the coalition forces in Iraq and on occasion by the White House".
Posted below are how it was done.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/10/02/fake-news-and-false-flags-how-the-pentagon-paid-a-british-pr-firm-500m-for-top-secret-iraq-propaganda/
CDs that could track the viewer
The work consisted of three types of products. The first was television commercials portraying al Qaeda in a negative light. The second was news items which were made to look as if they had been created by Arabic TV, Wells said. Bell Pottinger would send teams out to film low-definition video of al Qaeda bombings and then edit it like a piece of news footage. It would be voiced in Arabic and distributed to TV stations across the region, according to Wells.
The American origins of the news items were sometimes kept hidden. In 2005, revelations that PR contractor the Lincoln Group had helped the Pentagon place articles in Iraqi newspapers sometimes presented as unbiased news led to a DoD investigation.
The third and most sensitive programme described by Wells was the production of fake al Qaeda propaganda films. He told the Bureau how the videos were made. He was given precise instructions: We need to make this style of video and weve got to use al Qaedas footage, he was told. We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.
US marines would take the CDs on patrol and drop them in the chaos when they raided targets. Wells said: If theyre raiding a house and theyre going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, theyd just drop an odd CD there.
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