WP: "Home audience" targeted by Pentagon propaganda via NYT and FoxNews

[Rose Siding]

Monday, April 10, 2006; Page A01

The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists.

For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890.html

There it is.

I'm afraid to turn to the editorial page - Will it be all about how we should always trust the government's intentions?

[Cocoa]

1. Operation Boogey Man

how many Iraqis watch Fox News?

How dumb does Col. Treadwell think we are?

Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's government be publicized, U.S. psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was "seen on Fox News."

U.S. military policy is not to aim psychological operations at Americans, said Army Col. James A. Treadwell, who commanded the U.S. military psyops unit in Iraq in 2003. "It is ingrained in U.S.: You don't psyop Americans. We just don't do it," said Treadwell. He said he left Iraq before the Zarqawi program began but was later told about it.

[Rose Siding]

3. A boogey man of convenience

-one bush could have had "several" times in '02

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601

It's very...disappointing that this fact didn't get more exposure.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Here is the reference to Faux:

Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's government be publicized, U.S. psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was "seen on Fox News."

[drm604]

4. Kick

:kick:

[autorank]

5. I'm going to by my first Post in years. Amazing. Recommended & thanks.